John Spencer

An author whose books carried several cases from southern Africa and China to a wider readership. His World Atlas of UFOs gave the surname MacNorman to the couple whose drive through Rhodesia on the night of 30 to 31 May 1974 became the Umvuma car-pacing case. His UFOs: The Definitive Casebook retold the 1975 Loxton landing in the Karoo. The same book offered its own version of the 1985 CAAC Boeing 747 encounter. In Spencer's account the airliner was over Gansu Province, flying from Beijing to Paris. He singled out one detail: a UFO with an apparent diameter of 6 miles.

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The Umvuma Car-Pacing and Teleportation Encounter, Rhodesia (1974)

May 31, 1974 · Main road south of Umvuma (now Mvuma) via Fort Victoria (now Masvingo) to the Beit Bridge border post, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

UAP · Unknown · 17 sources

13Thinly documented

Author of World Atlas of UFOs (1991), source of the MacNorman surname and the tyres detail

The Loxton Landing: Danie van Graan's Humanoid Encounter

July 31, 1975 · Loxton, Karoo, Northern Cape (then Cape Province)

UAP · Egg · 18 sources

26Thinly documented

Author of UFOs: The Definitive Casebook, which retold the case

The CAAC Boeing 747 Encounter: Captain Wang Shuting's Light Over China

June 11, 1985 · Airspace over Gansu Province (near Lanzhou) or Inner Mongolia, China (unresolved)

UAP · Orb / light · 8 sources

14Thinly documented

Author of UFOs: The Definitive Casebook, the source of the Gansu version