The African healer Credo Mutwa (1921-2020) was a highly popular sangoma (healer or shaman) from the Zulu people in South Africa. He was very interested in ufology and believed that Zulu legends about strange creatures originated in ancient times when extraterrestrials visited Earth.
In his youth, Mutwa experienced what seemed to be a typical alien abduction story. He was taken while walking in the mountains in search of sacred plants and later found himself lying on a table surrounded by small beings “similar to pygmies” with grey skin and enormous black eyes. These beings cut his thigh, causing him great pain, and then inserted a silver tube into his nose, which caused even more intense pain. Afterward, they took a “urine sample” using another black tube, and after all this, an entity that resembled a woman appeared. This creature attacked him and began engaging in sexual activities with him, but he found it unpleasant because the creature’s movements were more mechanical, and its skin was cold.
He was then roughly moved from one room to another, where he saw other people being tortured by the black-eyed beings. These people were lying in their own urine, feces, and sweat. Eventually, Mutwa lost consciousness and woke up again in the mountains.
He spent a long time recovering both psychologically and physically from the trauma, and he suffered many negative consequences from the manipulations. His genitals became covered with sores, and a large round spot appeared on his thigh where the wound had been, which remained there for the rest of his life. This event became a pivotal moment in his life, after which he became deeply interested in ufology and discovered that extraterrestrial beings often abducted African people, especially women. Many victims reported being taken somewhere where beings called “mantidans” impregnated them, only to later remove the babies from their wombs after several months of pregnancy.
There is also an old interview with him where he recounts how he possibly ate the flesh of an alien from a crashed UFO. He explained that in 1959, a friend of his from Lesotho called him and said he needed to show him something important. Mutwa then traveled to visit him. Upon arriving, his friend led him to a secret place where there was a deep pit. They descended into the pit, and the friend showed him pieces of something resembling dried meat and suggested that he try it. Mutwa started chewing it, but he found it unpleasant, describing the taste as if he was “sucking on an old copper coin.” Nonetheless, they all ate the strange meat, and later, they left the pit and went to sleep at the home of a mutual acquaintance.
The next day, all three of them fell seriously ill. Their skin felt as if it was burning, itching intensely, and was painful to the touch. In an attempt to relieve the unbearable itch, they even resorted to a folk remedy – urinating on their skin – but it didn’t help. They then tried to wash with water from a hoof, but that didn’t work either. After a few days, the fever started to subside, and their skin stopped itching and began peeling. Only then did Mutwa ask his friend what the strange meat was and why they had fallen ill from eating it. His friend explained that it was “puana,” the “flesh of God,” and that if one ate it, they would either die or become incredibly healthy.
Suddenly, they all experienced an uncontrollable fit of laughter that lasted for several hours, after which Mutwa realized something had changed within him. He began to perceive the taste of food and water differently, as if his taste buds had changed. The world around him also seemed to change. The trees appeared brighter, and he could see much farther than before, and he felt a “complete sense of unity.” Over the following days, he also felt “immortal and full of bliss.” “When I looked at a tree beyond my friend’s house, it seemed as though the tree was a multicolored living rainbow. When I looked at a distant mountain, my vision was so intense that I could see the colors beyond the visible spectrum. I can’t give you any other description. After that, I was very weak, but with a monstrous appetite,” Mutwa recounted.
All of this seemed to resemble the effects of a powerful and long-lasting drug. However, no known narcotic substances, including hallucinogenic mushrooms, produce such effects. Later, Mutwa linked this experience to a story he learned about later. He discovered that in 1958, just a year before the incident with the strange meat, a farmer in Lesotho found a strange object on his field, around which small lightning-like sparks were seen. It looked as though the object had fallen from the sky. When the farmer tried to approach it, he was struck by a powerful electrical charge that threw him to the ground. Fortunately, he wasn’t severely injured. From his description, the object seemed to be a typical UFO, shaped like a “flying disc.” Several days later, many military vehicles with soldiers in black uniforms arrived and took the object, but before they left, many people saw something fall from the truck onto the ground. Some believe that the strange meat Mutwa and his friend ate was from a crashed UFO, possibly from the crew’s bodies, their food supplies, or even their experiments.
Interestingly, in 1995, a UFO also crashed in the same area in Lesotho, and, as before, the military took it away.
