Cynthia Hind was first drawn to this case from a American called Albert. He sent her a cutting which reported that a farmer in Lesotho had seen something crashed in the hills on his land in September, 1995. The following is a shortened version of her report in UFO Afrinews No. 14 1996. 

Immediately I started making enquires from most of our top sources in South Africa. Then, anonymously, someone sent us some documents referring to the Lesotho crash. This was quite a revelation, apart from the fact that I thought they were faked and at the back of my mind, James van Greunen's name sprang up. 

The documents looked reasonably genuine, but so had the documents purporting to be real which van Greunen had produced in his sad attempt to hoax the world with an alleged UFO crash in Botswana. 

And let me reiterate here that I have never maintained that nothing occurred in Botswana; only that whatever it was, it never happened the way van Greunen reported it, and I doubt it was a UFO. 

The documents, alleged that an African farmer, Peter Lachasa, heard a strange sound in the sky at 21:15 hours on the 15th of September, 1995. His farm was 12 km west of the Madibamatso river in Lesotho. Two minutes after he heard a dull explosion, he went to investigate the cause. 

Lachasa accompanied by friends to the site, heard a humming sound coming from the craft which became a dull grey colour after the light surrounding it diminished. Also a intense heat surrounded the object which prevented people approaching too closely. Grass surrounding had been set alight which made close inspection impossible. 

Lachasa reported the incident to the police, who in turn supposedly contacted a Lesotho government official, who then sent a 2 page fax to the South African Military Command/1 SAI Intelligence Unit, in Bloemfontein.  The SAI (South African Intelligence) soon cordoned of the area and removed the unidentified craft.

Our source later informed us that the timing was almost an impossibility. He said the whole exercise could not have been accomplished within that short time. Besides, he pointed out, the Intelligence Unit would have waited for daylight. 

Further into the documents, the Botswana crash was mentioned, and knowing that the documents referring to that had been faked by van Greunen, we became even more suspicious. We are quite sure he is behind this Lesotho story; as much as he was behind the hoax he perpetrated in the Kalahari/Botswana crash. 

For more details on this case see UFO AFRINEWS No. 14