Pretoria UFO Engine Stall and Ground Trace Incident, Pretoria, South Africa, 1965 (Sergeant Klaas Roets)
In 1965, Sergeant Klaas Roets of the South African Police was driving near Pretoria, South Africa, when he encountered a silent metallic disc-shaped object hovering at low altitude above or near the…
Narration
A silent disc-shaped craft flooded the Pretoria rural road in blinding white light.
Pretoria, South Africa, 1965 — a police sergeant drove alone through the dark Highveld night.
Sergeant Klaas Roets sat frozen, instruments dead, shielding his eyes from the overwhelming white light.
The silent disc-shaped craft ascended rapidly, its blinding white underlight fading into the star-filled Highveld sky.
Physical ground traces and official reports quietly entered South African UFO research files, catalogued CE-2.
No official explanation ever came — only scorched earth and silence remain above the Pretoria road.