Ariel School UFO incident

17°51′49″S 31°17′28″E / 17.863520°S 31.291140°E / -17.863520; 31.291140

On 16 September 1994, there was a UFO sighting outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe.[1] Sixty-two pupils at the Ariel School aged between six and twelve[1][2] said that they saw one or more silver craft descend from the sky and land on a field near their school.[1][2] Some of the children claimed that one creature or more creatures dressed all in black then approached and telepathically communicated to them a message with an environmental theme, frightening them and causing them to cry.[1][2]

The Fortean writer Jerome Clark has called the incident the “most remarkable close encounter of the third kind of the 1990s”.[3] Some skeptics have described the incident as one of mass hysteria.[2][4] Not all the children at the school that day stated that they saw something.[2][a] Several of those that did maintain that their account of the incident is true.[1][5][6]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Christie, Sean (4 September 2014). "Remembering Zimbabwe's great alien invasion". Mail & Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Dunning, Brian. "The 1994 Ruwa Zimbabwe Alien Encounter". skeptoid.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. ^ Clark, Jerome (2000). Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings. Indiana University: ABC-CLIO. p. 67. ISBN 978-1576072493. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  4. ^ Kokota, Demobly (2011). "Episodes of mass hysteria in African schools: A study of literature". Malawi Medical Journal. 23 (3): 74–77. PMC 3588562. PMID 23448000.
  5. ^ Chara, Tendai. "The Day the Aliens Landed". No. 21 September 2014. The Sunday Mail. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  6. ^ Ramirez, Patricia (4 July 2016). "Zimbabwe UFO Mass Sighting Contactee Speaks Publicly For The First Time [Video]". The Inquisitr. Archived from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.


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