Reports of Unidentified Flying Object: Testimony from Africa – Speculations
I ask myself-not unreasonably I feel-what in Heaven’s name have I achieved in all these seventeen years? From 1972 I have been involved with UFO investigations in Africa. I have traveled thousands of miles, been in often unhealthy areas and even dangerous situations. I have also been invited to speak at numerous international conferences, UFO group meetings, men’s and women’s groups, schools, and sometimes in remote places where only four or five people were able to attend.
There are those who are resentful to me, disbelieving of me and who perhaps intensely dislike me and what I am doing. On the other hand, I have believers from the abysmally ignorant, to respected pilots, policemen in high standing, and university students .
It is an exacting and tiring task where abuse and praise are given liberally; where TV shows and radio broadcasts, despite the hard work and research involved, rarely pay. I live in a country where foreign exchange is a very precious commodity and while some people are sure that UFO lecturing is a lucrative occupation, I do not find it so. My travel allowance of 300 U.S. dollars per annum covers very little.
Leo Sprinkle, Psychology Professor at Wyoming University in Laramie, once said to me, “Serious UFO investigators are not only dedicated people, they are chosen people”. Well, whoever chose me, I wonder if they really did me a favor?
I have never seen a UFO although I have stood for many hours in Zimbabwe watching the marvelously clear, star studded skies of Africa. I have sat in the Karroo, South Africa, on a moonless night, where not a single blemish marred the breathtaking dark of the night. I have stood (with Timothy Good) on a balcony in Brazil, watching for one vestige of movement from that vast bejeweled panorama above Sao Jose do Rio Preto. Nothing stirred: no huge starship hovered dramatically above me, and no one attempted an abduction of either of us! And still, I believe.
What is it then that drives us? Is it faith in humanity; that so many people cannot all be lying? Is it a conviction that somewhere there must be other better beings, other knowledge greater than ours? Or is it because subconsciously, I know something, like Leo says, that has not yet manifested itself in my conscious mind?
I am not growing younger, but I am growing wiser and more experienced, more questioning, ever seeking. There is bound to be a time when it will all pay off, one way or another.