Around 3:00 am on 26 December 1980, a security patrol near RAF Woodbridge spotted descending lights. Serviceman Jim Penniston documented the craft for 45 minutes in a notebook.

An event from September 1994, when 62 pupils at the Ariel School in rural Zimbabwe said that they had seen silver craft descend from the sky and land on a field near their school. This was corroborated by numerous other sightings of an orange glow by adult witnesses who said a craft moving across the sky and emitting an orange glow, unlike any normal aircraft.