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*THE LESOTHO INCIDENT* *OF* *SEPTEMBER 15th, 1995*
*1. Introduction*
Though the IRI was originally founded to help to bring on its way an Executive Order by the American Congress to end all secrecy in the matters of UFO’s and extraterrestrial or non-human intelligence with the many thousands of signed Roswell Declarations which shall be delivered next year which is the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, we have decided to help the German researchers Andreas v. Retyi and Jochen Kopp in their effort to focus public attention to something most extraordinary: the crash and retrieval of a non-human space-craft and the subsequent cover up of all related activities in the kingdom of Lesotho, South Africa.
Those who are familiar with the Roswell Incident will immediately discover the similarity to the course of official and hidden activities related to the Lesotho Incident and to all the other retrievals of crashed or shot-down non-human crafts and their crew members in the past decades.
It is the same agenda as always, according to the spirit of the fatal Robertson Panel, it is the same attempt to deceive the public, it is again the ugly face of the darkest force here on this planet, and it was no other than the President of the United States, Eisenhower, a 5 star general and conservative Republican, who in his last address to the nation coined a term to describe this dark force for the first time ever: *the military-industrial complex*.
This “military-industrial complex” long time ago has declared war against humankind for the sake of “their” own global power and to get hold of advanced extraterrestrial technology. To reach this goal “they” shall stop at nothing — threatening and killing are “their” tools if you come to close.
This is the reason why we have decided to stand side-by-side with Retyi and Kopp because what we have heard from both — including recently an “official” warning to them “that dealing with these things might be dangerous…” — makes clear that someone has sharpened his weapons and any mistakes could have a fatal outcome.
*We all should stay side-by-side* – not divided in several groups which follow only their own interest – but as indivduals, inhabitants of this planet, living beings without political, ideological or religious differences who declare their native right to know what is going on – the truth – which is out there.
*2. The Documents*
On June 21st, 1996, something weird happened. In the morning of this day the postman delivered a big brown envelope to Hans-Juergen Kyborg’s address. The address sticker was written with a machine and showed a mixture of Hans’ and my name. The stamp showed that is was mailed somewhere in the southern parts of Germany. There was no sender on the envelope, it was anonymous.
When we opened the envelope we wouldn’t believe our eyes. What we held in our hands read like this: ———————————————————————-
Operation ROLD TSR U L T R A Recovery Data File . . .
Warning
This file has been classified *ULTRA* under the National Defense Secrets Act No. 54 of 1989 and contains sensitive/ strategic / secret information in the interest of defense and national security of the Republic of South Africa ————————————–
D O N O T D I V U L G E
The next page (excerpts below), headlined
“ULTRA SECRET”
was the
“Request and authorization for change of internal administrative classification” . . . for an
“Item: As reads: Is amended to read:” ROLD TSR TOP SECRET ULTRA SECRET
“Item: Is amended to exclude:” ROLD TSR Personel below ULTRA A clearance
“Remarks:” Illuminated Access only . . .
There were no blackened parts on this page, everything could clearly be seen, all stamps, signatures, telephone and code numbers.
On the bottom of the pages we could read “page ## of ##” and the numbers showed that we had received parts of two different documents added by a letter dated half a year later.
Page three, again with readable names, code and telephone numbers reads like this: ———————————————————————-
ULTRA SECRET
Foreign Technology Research Division Aviation and Space Tech. Dept. Valhalla / Swartkop Air Force Base [Emblem inserted] Pretoria 0001
Tel:####… Fax#####…
To the attention of:
General Patric Dwight PRORITY 1 SAI /Intelligence / Counter Intelligence Unit Tempe Bloemfontein
OEC. 547 22 * 7 16 September 95
General Dwight,
We herewith confirm receiving your communication to our Dept this morning and hereby confirm that our recovery unit has been activated and dispatched to the area.
Set regulations / procedures regarding this particular aviation incident.
Due to the fact that we are dealing with a possible (blackened word) technology we wish to issue the following instructions:
a) Remove / arrest all non-military individuals in one kilometer radius around the area of impact.
b) Create and maintain an absolute sterile area of 150 meters around the craft and area of impact
c) Arrest / eliminate intruders straying into secured / sterile area.
d) Use all counter intelligence measures to debunk facts and / or eye witness accounts regarding this incident.
e) Await further instructions.
Please note that this operation has been codenamed ROLD TSR. and comes into effect as of this moment. We estimate arrival of recovery unit at 05 h 35 local time.
Sincerely
(signature blackened)
(name readable)
ULTRA SECRET ———————————————————————-
Then the next document begins. While the first document may consist of 22 pages whereof we have got 3 copied pages, the second document may consist of 20 pages whereof we have got 6 copied pages.
The first page of the second document reads like this:
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SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE DEPT OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Foreign service Dept. / Buitelandse Diens AFD. Pretoria
T N [emblem inserted] E G R U
. . . . .
Confidential Internal Report / Restricted Access Konfidensiele Interne Berig / Beperkte Toegang . . .
SECRET / GEHEIM
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The next page is No.7 of 20 is headlined:
“ULTRA SECRET South African National Defence Force Internal Movement / Retrieval Order”.
It contains plainly readable except the blackened signature below all identification names and code numbers and is written in form of a table. Here are excerpts: CASE IDENTIFICATION No.: Tempo X Object / 02 051 . . .
IN GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF: Maluti Mnts. / Madibamatsu Rvr. / Lejone Lesotho **** MOVEMENT / RETRIEVAL FROM Lejone / Lesotho TO Pretoria / RSA VAL / SWTKP AFB. 012 BASIC INSTRUCTION Remove X Object / A.C. from Lesotho territory. Move to secure base with FAC. POS. E.T. origin OP to conduct secret. Escort/ LH passage provided. One way passage requested. No land communication advised. ULF SAT/MICRO DOT CONF. . . .
And so it goes on and on.
Page 9 of 20 is another list and headlined:
ULTRA SECRET
Classified Personnell Information / Data
This document is issued for security clearances purposes only and is subjected to regulations under the National Secrets Act No. 74 / Clause 11 of 89 relative to access of intelligence personnel data on active operational officers .. Infringement of this Act / eg. divulging information contained in this document is punishable with life imprisonment.. . . .
This list contains – not blackened – all names, ranks, force numbers and clearances of the ROLD TSR. Personnel / Designated 16 Sept.96, including Generals, Commanders, Majors, Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants.
And so it goes on and on. Letters, information about the retrieval of a classified X aircraft, requests for secure storage facility and advises “.. to follow same arrangements as was done with Kalahari object.” And more.
Very interesting is the text (in the original all written in capital letters) of pages 11 0f 20 and 12 of 20 which is given below:
ULTRA SECRET
DEPARTEMENT OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE HEADQUARTERS LIBERTY LIFE BLDG. SUNNYSIDE PARK [emblem inserted] PRETORIA 0001
Tel. ####…
TO THE ATTENTION OF: THE SUPREME COUNCIL ILLUMINATED NINE
OEC. 619 00 9 MI./ ILN 17 October 95
Re: ROLD TSR.
HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL,
According to information from intelligence agents in the United Kingdom, we are advised that the British Ambassadorial Service to Lesotho has requested the British Government by means of diplomatic channels to make enquiries to the South African Government regarding the object retrieved from Lesotho.
Although Lesotho has stronger diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom than with South Africa, we feel that this is a South African problem which occured on the South African teritory and sholud therefore be dealt with accordingly by the South African Intelligence..The United Kingdom should be disinformed on all developments regarding this incident. Our department further forsee an American enquiry which must be extinguished at its infancy stage.
The alien object and its contents must remain in South African territory at all costs. The endless scientific information that is to be gained for the advancement of our defence technology in the area of avionics and weapon systems alone will justify our stance. In May 1989 we were threatened to submit to the wishes of the United States Government when an (blackened word) space vehicle was brought down by the South African Air Force. As you are aware that exercise was a costly and internationally embarrassing event from which we have learnt not to be swayed or distracted from international priorities.
Gentlemen, I would therefore insist that the Council of the Illuminated Nine use all means necessary fram any foreign government intervention.
We advise that President Mandela should not be briefed on the ROLD —————————————————————— TSR. operation for obvious reasons. ———————————– If local government starts asking questions it will be our duty to deny the existence of any activity surrounding the ROLD TSR. operation. Disinformation of the highest order is advised. International knowledge or intterest which is of a deefence or political nature on this incident could implicate South Africa with a possible war emergency and we have subsequently taken initiative to raise the level of war alert to DEFCON 2.
———————————————————————- ROLD TSR. will remain classified ABOVE ULTRA SECRET for any indefinite period with Illuminated Nine access only. ———————————————————————-
We await your comments / approval on all issues raised in this communication.
Yours faithfully
(signature blackened)
(name readable)
ULTRA SECRET
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Well, take a deep breath – we did several. As Retyi, Stein and Kopp found out by their research, “ROLD” is the short form of “Recovery Of Lesotho Disk” and the the term “Illuminated Nine” is used for a group of high ranked Generals and Politicians, among them the former Presidents Botha and deKlerk.
The last copied page of the material is a letter from within the South African Intelligence Service regarding a “Major… Van Greunen/ …” who because of a meeting with the German National Intelligence Service has “…now become a security risk to our service.”
“We advise that Major…Van Greunen /… be suspended from the intelligence service for an indefinite period with IMMEDIATE EFFECT, pending information obtained … on … return to South Africa on 08 February 96.”
There we stood with these documents in our hands and our first reaction was: “This reminds us in some way of the surfacing of the MJ12 papers..!” No matter if they are real of only a great hoax we decided to bring them away from our houses to a secure place where they are still now.
If anyone would burgle our houses he would find anything. If anyone would threaten us to hand over the documents he would get nothing because we don’t have them and we have built in certain mechanisms which prevent access by “thirds”. And if “thirds” would try they would be exposed.
Furthermore it would be completely without effect to threaten any individual alone because we know that others here in Germany have copies of the documents, too. The train is already running…
At the beginning we kept completely quiet. We looked around if there would be any news about an UFO crash in South Africa but found nothing. No reports in the media, no new mails, nothing in the Internet, no articles in the UFO magazines.
After some weeks of waiting we became bolder and started asking if anyone had heard about rumors of an UFO crash in South Africa. We phoned the UFO-KURIER and learned that Mr. Kopp, Mr. von Retyi and a Mr. Stein were already deeply involved in the resaerch of the documents. They urged us to keep our feet still by all means because the research had become dangerous — not only for them.
They had received reports about arrests and “casualties” in connection with the Lesotho Incident. The contact person was involved in shootings two times but it was not quite clear if the contact person should have been the target because the situation in Johannisburg is generally escalating with about 70 assassinations per day. What a fine opportunity to cover such sort of assaults – no matter if it would be a criminal or another uninvited person — such as an UFO researcher?
So we agreed to stay in the background not to endanger the sensible research or to put someones life at risk.
Now the time has come to speak out!
The first phase of the research is done and Andreas von Retyi has released on December 23rd a report of 28 pages in the latest issue of the UFO-KURIER (No. 27 of January 1997) entitled: “Exklusivbericht: UFO-Absturz in Lesotho 1995 — UFO-KURIER fliegt suedafrikanische Agenten ein” (in English: “Exclusive Report: UFO Crash in Lesotho — UFO-KURIER flies in [to Germany] South African agents”.
Jochen Kopp has updated the UFO-KURIER www homepage with this article (in German). For those who have access to the Internet please look at: > http://www.ufos.de <.
I’ll try to give you translations of some parts of this article (or if I find the time of all) in the next part: *#2 The Lesotho Incident*.
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*THE LESOTHO INCIDENT* *OF SEPT. 15, 1995*
*Part #2*
In the first part we described how we came in possession of the documents. Of course, we are not blind or naive, of course we know that they might be hoaxed and of course we are cautious and remain suspicious.
But what happened so far indicates that there might be something real to the incident.
Further investigations are necessary and will be conducted. And we, the German co-ordinators of the Roswell Intitiative, promise to do our best to make this case not another “Santilliade”.
The only restriction we have to accept at the moment in our reports is to refrain from anything that might cause danger to the sources.
In this part #2 of our report we would like to provide you with a translated summary and excerpts of the exclusive report of
*Andreas von Retyi* written in the latest issue of the *UFO-KURIER* (No. 27 of January 1997)
*”UFO CRASH IN LESOTHO 1995″*
By the beginning of 1996 startling information came to the surface. According to sources of the South African Intelligence Service an alleged non-terrestrial flying object with non-human entities onboard should have crashed in the mountains of Lesotho, a kingdom in South Africa.
A cover-up was established and an operation to retrieve the craft and the beings was immediately conducted. The name of the operation was “ROLD TSR.” which means “Recovery Operation of Lesotho Disk, Top Secret Recovery”.
Seven years ago, in May 1989, another crash had happened, the so- called “Kalahari Incident”. Most of the researchers were convinced that this was a hoax. Only a few, who dealt with all the facts such as the British researcher Anthony Dodd, remain steadfast that actually an unidentified extraterrastrial craft was shot down by the South African Air Force at that time.
According to new information provided by the source of the Lesotho Incident the craft of the Kalahari-Incident was shot down by squadron leader Gerald Peter Goosen with a “Thor-2-Weapon” which was fixed at his Mirage jet. The “Thor-Weapon” was a MASER-gun built in the “Thor” factory in Johannesburg.
This “Thor-Weapon” so far was thought to be a microwave-weapon working in the principle of a MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation).
But in fact the “Thor-Weapon” does not work with microwaves but magnetic fields: “Magnetic Amplification…”. It is known that there exist research in the principle of a HASER (Hydro-magnetic Amplification…) where the production of very strong magnetic shock waves plays a major part.
The “Thor” factory in Johannesburg was always surrounded by mystery. There were rumors that beside other there was participation in the production of “Red Mercury”, a high explosive substance. In November 1991, the selling manager of “Thor” in Johannesburg, Alan Kidger, 48 years old, was mysteriously murdered. His body was found in the trunk of his car without head, arms and legs. These parts were found on the works premises.
*More Documents*
Because of the very sensitive way in handling the contact with the sources of the information von Retyi could obtain more documents F#O There are two sets of documents, the first one with 20 pages, the second one with 22 pages.
The first one contains a police report and a military report of what happened in the mountains of Lesotho on Sept. 15 and 16 of 1995. All dosuments are written in capital letters in the original.
Here is a transcript of pages 3 to 6 of 20.
———————————————————————- SECRET / GEHEIM PRIORITY INTERNAL REPORT
CASE HISTORY
On 15 September 95 at 22 h 20 local time, a black farmer Mr. Peter Lachasa notified Sgt. Thobo of the Leribe Police Department that he found a very strange looking craft on his farm which lay 12 km west of the Madibamatso River in Lesotho.
According to Mr. Lachasa at 21 h 15 local time he heard a strange sound in the sky near his farm which frightened his cattle and livestock.
Approximately 2 minutes later a dull explosion was heard. The complainant then went outside his house to investigate the cause.
Friends of Mr. Lachasa who also live in the boundaries of hiis farm informed him that they had been watching a bright light in the sky that was slowly descending to the ground, heading on a course towards the Lesotho foothills. According to the witnesses the object exploded on impact with the ground, giving off a series of blinding flashes.
The complainant who from now on will be referred to as the primary witness, then accompanied his friends to the site where the object had impacted.
According to the primary witness an electronic humming sound emanated from th craft after which the light around it diminished and the object became dull grey in color. An intense heat field surrounded the craft which made close up inspection by the primary witness impossible. Dry grass in the area was set alight by the intense heat field surrounding the craft.
Fearing that the craft might have injured occupants the primary witness decided to inform the local police department at Leribe of the incident.
POLICE REPORT
LERIBE POLICE DEPARTMENT LESOTHO SECRET / GEHEIM
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———————————————————————- SECRET / GEHEIM PRIORITY INTERNAL REPORT
On 15 Septeember 95 at 22 h 20 local time Mr. Peter Lachasa arrived at Leribe Police Department and informed Sgt. Thobo who was duty officer that night, that he had found a strange aircraft on his farm which he requested the police to remove from his property as this was frightening his cattle.
The primary witness went on to explain how he nd other witnesses on his farm saw the object crash near the foothills on his fram.
At 22 h 34 local time Sgt. Thobo and Constable Nandi escorted the witnesses to the site to investigate the complaint. On arrival the police officers made the following entry into their incident report.
1) A large round disk shaped object lay within the boundaries of Mr. Lachasa’s farm.
2) The object measured approx. 18 meters in lenght and 3 meters in height.
3) The object was dull grey in color.
4) No windows / portholes or any form of entry / exit could be seen on the craft.
5) The craft did not appear to have any external damage or breakage even though the terrain surrounding the craft was severely disturbed.
Sgt. Thobo radioed his observations to Leribe Police Department whilst on the site and was instructed to return to the department and make an official report.
At 00 h 15 local time, a Lesotho Goverrnmant official was contacted and a report consisting of two pages was faxed to South African Military Command 1 SAI Intelligence Unit in Bloemfontein on authorization of the Lesotho Government.
MILITARY REPORT
SECRET / GEHEIM ———————————————————————-
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MILITARY COMMAND / 1 SAI. INTELLIGENCE UNIT BLOEMFONTEIN
The Intelligence Unit at 1 SAI. received a fax from the Lesotho Ministry of Defence in Maseru at 00 h 17 local time regarding a crash of an alleged inidentified / unconventional flying object /aircraft that impacted on the farm of Mr. Peter Lachasa, a black cattle and livestock farmer who is located 12 km west of the Madibamatso River near Leribe.
Due to the nature of the incident it was decided to request information and possible confirmation from military air traffic control in Bloemfontein on any military / civilian aircraft in the sector at the time of the incident. It was noted that there were no aircraft in the area other than a routine Air Force Puma helicopter which patrolled South African / Lesotho border approx 30 minutes before the alleged incident took place.
Commander george Human from the Airborne Division at 1 SAI. / 1 PARA Battalion instructed an aerial assessment of the area in question.
Two Alouette rescue helicopters were sent to the area. At 01 h 17 local time rescue team leader Captain Manie Louw reported that he was at the designated area and that a fierce veld fire had engulfed the area. He went on to report his observations of the area as follows:
1) An area of approx. 400 square meters engulfed in fire.
2) A disc shaped metallic looking object of about 20 meters in length that seemed to be intact.
3) The terrain around the object was torn up and severely disturbed by the impact.
4) Due to the fact that it was night and smoke from the fire obscured vision, clear observations could not be made at the time.
Captain Manie Louw was instructed to patrol / secure the area until further instructions were given.
SECRET / GEHEIM
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To more than one of the officers at 1 SAI Intelligence Unit, this incident had the same markings of a similar event which took place in the Kalahari desert / Botswana in May 1989 and decided on the same course of action as was done then.
Military Intelligence in Pretoria was informed and instructed 1 SAI Intel. to maintain a sterile area of 150 meters around the craft, after which they will take complete conttrol over the situation.
3 battalion from 1 SAI Intelligence Unit was flown to the area to guard / secure the object until Foreign Technology Recovery Division from Valhalla Air Force Base arrived at the site.
At 03 h 47 local time the area and object was secured and operation ROLD TSR came into effect.
Due to the fact that this was a military intelligence operation dealing with an unidentifiable foreign technology, all members of 3 batallion were issued with orders to arrest / eliminate any intruders who strayed into the secured area.
The area remained sterile until Foreign Technology Recovery Unit arrived at 05 h 55 local time.
We at 1 SAI. Intel Unit / Bloemfontain hope that this report you requested will suffice.
Please inform us if you require any further assistance.
(Signature blackened)
General Patric Dwight 1 SAI. INTEL
SECRET / GEHEIM
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For those who wonder about the German looking word “GEHEIM”: it is the same word in Africaans language.
The explosive nature of this incident – if it happened this way – is enlarged by information from other documents that three occupants of the craft were rescued – of *extraterrestrial origin and a l i v e .*
From a “Preliminary Medical Report” we know that the beings were brought into a research unit of the Swartkop Air Force Base in Pretoria for a close examination. The beings were anesthetized and then brought to a “Delta -Level” of the underground building where another team of specialised physicians did further tests.
In the “Preliminary Medical Report” it is said that the tests did show that the beings are humanoids with some reptilian aspects withand have an apparently underdeveloped skeleton construction.
If we put the case that the whole incident is n o t a big hoax then we have to be very cautious in publishing names because it came to the knowledge of von Retyi that some of those whose names became publicly known have had already great difficulties with official authorities. This happened to the leading physician of the team who examined the beings.
Page 14 of the twenty pages document is a letter of this physician which contains hints to the beings.
The transcript reads like this:
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SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE [emblem Dept. of Experimental Biology and Embrionics inserted]
(Adress partly blackened)
VALHALLA / SWARTKOP AFB. PRETORIA 0001 18 September 95
GENERAL PATRIC DWIGHT,
PROJECT ROLD TSR.
Your urgent communication to our department has been given priority attention and we confirm that we are able to participate in your project.