Upington, South Africa: Meteorologist tracks white half-circle object by theodolite

At 1:15 p.m. R. H. Kleyweg, officer-in-charge of the meteorological station at Upington, Northern Cape, was looking for a red balloon he had just released. He saw an object just east of the sun, moving slowly west, but when he began tracking it with a theodolite he realized it was white, not red. It looked like a half circle with sunlight gleaming from its sloped top. He followed it for 3 minutes before it accelerated and he could not keep it in sight. James E. McDonald cited the case in his statement to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics in July 1968. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.