Beyond the Light Barrier

I was seven years old,

and the sun had just set beyond, over the Drakensberg.

And this enormous craft came across...

quite horizontally, across the sky.

And it was as big as a football,

and it was quite beautiful, and it shone with a blue-white light.

I felt that this was something...

the beginning of a tremendous destiny that I was to go into,

and I could feel this as a child, I sensed it.

I had this intuition.

And I felt a bond, a communication that was so strong

that I simply followed this bond.

There are people up here.

We interrupt our sports commentary. Shortly after 11 this morning,

an unidentified flying object hovered over Johannesburg,

with many witnesses not sure what they were looking...

GB McKenzie is from Howick in Natal.

Son of Elizabeth Klarer's sister, Barbara Woollatt.

A shy, sweet timber farmer and nature lover.

Salt-of-the-earth type.

Elizabeth was before her time

because her story is something we as South Africans can really be proud of.

I always remember her as being so serene and gracious and a real lady.

I miss Elizabeth very much.

Stella cared for Elizabeth Klarer

during her final days at the Highway Hospice.

And Stella paid close attention to every word Elizabeth said from her deathbed.

And the alien sex part made her ears prick up every single time.

My remembrance of Elizabeth was her sitting up in bed.

I think she dyed her hair, and it was swept up at the back.

She sat in her bed with all her papers round about her.

This big blue ring and the photo of Akon at the back of her bed.

That's why I remember her. "Come in, dear, and I'll talk to you."

She loved talking. She loved to talk.

She loved to talk about her journey up into space.

She told me all about the interior of the spaceship,

and it was red velvet and she had sex in the spaceship.

And, oh, she told me the whole story. I could never ever catch her out.

She always stuck to what she believed in,

and never wavered off what she thought was the truth.

David, Elizabeth's son, is my first cousin.

Um, he spent most Christmas holidays with us on the farm.

So, he's a few years younger than myself.

As far as Elizabeth's experiences go,

I myself have never seen a UFO, unfortunately. I've never had a sighting,

but that doesn't mean to say that I don't believe her story

because, you know, she's attended conferences in Germany and America.

She's addressed conferences all over the world.

Yes, she was very intelligent.

I sometimes wish I had her intelligence.

But she was widely read, she read a lot of books.

Meet Elizabeth Klarer's earth son, David Klarer.

One of two earth children with Elizabeth's second husband, Paul Emile Klarer.

David, now retired, was a senior risk analyst back in the day.

He was close with his mom. Not so much with Akon.

He's never met his space brother,

and is witness to a close encounter of a third kind himself,

which does not include Akon or his people.

My mother was an amazing woman.

She was full of love, gentleness. Peaceful.

She was very concerned about the environment.

She was concerned about people.

She had green fingers. Her plants always did well.

Marina McKenzie is married to GB McKenzie.

Such a sweetheart and a retired nurse.

It would seem that Elizabeth, from the time she was a small girl,

was always a little bit different and more in touch with life out there.

And... naturally, he'd choose somebody like that. He wouldn't have chosen me.

The first time I met her was watching GB playing hockey.

And I'd met this aunt who, I was told, you know,

had had this episode in her life with Akon.

And so, there was a bit of interest anyway

because it was such an unusual and interesting story.

She was extra special and warm, terribly warm and affectionate,

and people just warmed towards her.

She had that power, that sort of aura, I suppose you could call it.

And I think she attracted men from far and wide.

Dare we say it? Really far and wide.

She must've been very brave to go off into an alien craft...

and face the unknown.

GB has a cousin, yes. I have a cousin-in-law.

He tells... He very proudly tells people that he has a cousin in space.

Potentially, I have a full cousin...

in outer space called Ayling.

This is Sue Armstrong.

Once upon a time, a farmer next to Elizabeth's infamous Flying Saucer Hill

in the Mooi River area.

There, she was an avid horse rider, believer, and feisty die-hard romantic.

She has since retired and moved on, but her eyes will always twinkle

when she thinks of what could've been made on that hill.

I see Flying Saucer Hill every day of my life.

Graham and I have been married for 42 years, and we've lived here all that time.

And in fact, I married the boy next door

because my father owned the farm next door to Danesford.

And so, from the time I was a small child, we heard about Flying Saucer Hill

and all the stories about Akon and Elizabeth meeting.

I believe because of my association with Elizabeth.

And she did have an incredible magnetism.

She had the most incredible eyes. She was not totally of this earth.

This is a picture I took of Flying Saucer Hill

with my Brownie Box camera.

It had a shaft of light coming right down over the dip in the top,

where Akon's starship landed.

And I can actually see his face in that shaft of light.

Hayley and Greg Muirhead

actually own the farm which hosts the Flying Saucer Hill.

But as busy farmers, they tend to focus more on their cattle and running a farm

than the alleged lights and hill-frolicking,

as described by Elizabeth.

Even though Hayley, like Sue, seems to be more open

to the thought of extraterrestrial communion as such.

A lot of that's in the eye of the beholder.

- I think... Yes, we'll leave it there. -

There are lots of holes in the story, but just take the pearls from that

and see what you get.

And if I saw Akon today, Arkon,

I'd tell him, "Take me to your leader." You know? "Take me out of here."

"We... Stop the world, we want to get off!" You know?

- - It all gets a bit much at times.

So, yes. And there's... there's magic in a bit of the unknown, the cosmic.

It just brings a little bit of awe, a little bit of interest

to an otherwise very... Excel, email kind of life.

You know? There's nothing wrong with that, a bit of color.

Good luck with this one, Akon, good luck.

- Only skinny women are easy to kidnap... -

Not... not ones who enjoy food too much.

I mean it is, it's a lovely site. So when you're up there,

why wouldn't you feel something, you know?

Why wouldn't you feel the beauty and what's around you?

But... you know, it's still... it's still just a marvel anyway.

And we find the whole story rather intriguing...

but to say I've seen activity, unfortunately, that isn't the case.

I went to the mountaintop.

And there, as I topped the northern ridge of the dip,

I saw the starship landed in the dip,

and she was landed flat on the ground.

And standing beside her was a tall man.

I never hesitated. I ran straight to him

and I held out both my hands to him, and he took them saying,

"You're not afraid this time."

I couldn't say anything, I just shook my head.

I was out of breath, I was so excited.

And then everything happened at once.

He just picked me up like a feather and stepped onto the hull of his ship...

and in through the open doors.

We went up the mountain one day, just for another talk,

and she explained that this was the mountain where she met Akon.

And Elizabeth started shaking, and she was very excited.

She said, "This is where Akon landed the spaceship."

And then I looked down, and it was the eeriest experience of my life

because in the hollow, it wasn't just a hollow, it was shaped... like this.

And that area in that shape...

was covered with strange plants.

I felt totally ice cold,

because this, to me, was a strange occurrence, and I'm sure that at her age,

she wouldn't have sat down planting those plants.

And she looked at that, and she said to me,

"He promised me, that he would leave a mark for me,

and this is the mark he left on the mountain."

Helene Rabie was a sought-after journalist during the '70s and '80s.

She often used to compare notes about the Klarer case.

Akon, he had the most wonderful face.

He had a high forehead,

high cheekbones, aquiline features,

and these really incredible grey eyes

that were very compelling and full of love.

And his hair... was golden, but quite white at the temples.

And he must... He... he is... In fact, I know, I knew afterwards...

that he was at least 6 ft 4.

She had a... I don't know whether it was a degree, but she was a meteorologist

and she studied in Britain.

And I often saw communications from...

very high officials in the government to her.

Petrovna Metelerkamp was a go-to magazine journalist in the '80s.

She reported in depth and with delight

on Elizabeth Klarer's extraterrestrial rendezvous.

In 1983, I was a journalist, and I was in the privileged position

that I could choose my subjects for my articles.

It was for a family magazine,

the biggest magazine in South Africa, called Huisgenoot.

I used to choose alternative topics.

And when I read a review about the book that had appeared,

written by Elizabeth Klarer,

I made an appointment to see her and spent a day with her

because I thought, "This is up my street."

This kind of anything-different-and-out-of-the-box.

One can also wonder why would Akon choose Elizabeth Klarer of all people on Earth.

Why would he choose her to take with him to his planet and to give him a son?

One of the reasons that she mentioned was...

that she was a descendant of the Venus tribe on Earth,

the original Venus people.

And he wanted to import fresh blood into his race

for the strengthening of their bloodline.

It does have a very romantic aspect to it...

when Elizabeth told you that this man was her soulmate.

Akon was her soulmate, and she had dreams of him

long before she met him.

I knew his name through telepathic communication...

and he'd watched me as a child.