The Questions
That Remain

Is James Van Greunen alive? Under what name? He was born in 1965, making him sixty-one years old. He was last documented in Trier, Germany. He has used at least three legal identities. No public record of his death has been found. Can he be located and interviewed — not confronted, not ambushed, but interviewed — by someone with the skills and patience to separate what he knows from what he has fabricated?

Who was Captain Hendrik Greef? Can South African Air Force personnel records confirm or deny his existence? If he served, where was he stationed? What was his role? If he never existed, who provided Van Greunen with the institutional detail that appears in the original five pages — detail that an outsider would be unlikely to know? If he did exist and his records have been removed, who removed them, and when?

Why was the Cape Town Argus article removed from the newspaper's own archive? Who borrowed it? Can the Argus's internal lending records from the 1990s be obtained? Has the request for a copy of the article ever been fulfilled?

Where are Tony Dodd's recordings of the South African embassy phone calls? Dodd died in 2009. His research archive was not destroyed. Those recordings are somewhere. They would constitute direct evidence of official South African government interest in the case — interest that is not consistent with the story being a simple fabrication by a known con artist.

Why did the effects described in the Kalahari document — cascading electromagnetic interference, flight system failure without thermal damage, electronics shutting down simultaneously — accurately describe the effects of high-power microwave weapons before HPM technology was publicly discussed? If Van Greunen fabricated the document from imagination, how did he describe the correct effects of a weapons system that was not yet in the public domain?

Why does the description of the recovered beings — three fingers, three toes, large dark slanted eyes, tight-fitting suits with insignia — predate the mass popularisation of that archetype and match the independently produced descriptions from the Ariel School encounter in Zimbabwe five years later, where sixty-two children with no exposure to each other's accounts drew the same thing?

Can the PURSUE Africa files — PR-001, PR-002, PR-003, and PR-043 — be cross-referenced against the 1989 date and the Kalahari location? Do any of them cover the same geographic area? Do any reference earlier incidents in the same airspace?

What was the Wright-Patterson Red Alert on 23 June 1989? The facility was placed on its highest security footing forty-seven days after the alleged crash, on the same date the documents claim the recovered material was shipped. No explanation has been given. Has anyone ever filed a Freedom of Information request for the operational logs of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for that date?

Who uploaded the Skinny Bob videos to YouTube in April 2011 under the account ivan0135, tagged them with the keywords Kalahari and South Africa, and then disappeared permanently from the internet? If it was Van Greunen operating as Fältskog, how did one person produce footage that over a decade of professional analysis has been unable to definitively debunk? If it was not Van Greunen, who was it, and why did they tag the videos with the name of this case?

Gerald Peter Goosen — Named in the Lesotho documents as the pilot who fired the Thor 2 weapon in May 1989. A falsifiable, researchable claim. If real, he should appear in SAAF records, military databases, or community archives. If he exists and can be located, his testimony — or his documented silence — would be significant. If he does not exist at all, that tells us equally something about the documents' fabrication. This name has never been systematically researched in South African military records.

The Bronkhorstspruit CSIR Analysis — The physical evidence from the 1965 highway landing was analysed by a leading South African scientific agency — almost certainly the CSIR. The results were never released. NICAP documented their failed attempts to obtain them. Those analysis records — if they survived destruction or are held in any archive — would constitute physical evidence with a chain of custody going back sixty years. PAIA requests to the CSIR and the Department of Defence have not been attempted by this investigation.

Cynthia Hind's Archives — Hind published 22 issues of UFO Afrinews between 1988 and 2000 and investigated UAP cases across southern Africa for four decades. She died in August 2000. Her archives — presumably including the original Kalahari documents she assessed, her correspondence with Van Greunen, and her investigation notes for the Loxton, Fort Beaufort, and Rosmead cases — have not been systematically examined. Where those archives are currently held is not publicly documented.

Alan Kidger — The Lesotho documents claim the Thor factory's sales manager in Johannesburg was murdered in November 1991 — dismembered, found in the boot of his car. This is independently verifiable through South African newspaper archives. If the murder occurred as described, it is one of the most alarming verified details in the entire case.

The Houwteq Documents — Records from South Africa's space launch vehicle assembly facility near Grabouw are alleged to have survived a destruction order. If located, they may contain procurement and testing records from the 1989 period that support or contradict the Kalahari timeline.

Major General William Neil McCasland — Former commander, Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson; former head of the Space Based Laser Project; key figure in SAPOC — disappeared in March 2026. No explanation has been publicly offered. For investigators of this case, his silence is not a small matter.