1969 Durban sighting

There were two of us working on street lighting behind the Edward hotel along Durbans beachfront area and it was a Sunday night with clear skies.  Multiple objects which appeared to be about 2.5 times bigger than the evening star suddenly appeared from the North moving rapidly across the sky to the South side of Durban.  There movement was extremely erractic and they zig zagged accross the sky and vanished.  This was logged on my evening call sheet where I was ridiculed; how ever my co-worker confirmed what we had seen.
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