The Ariel School UFO Encounter
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On 14th September, 1994 a UFO streaked across the sky over Southern Africa and two days later a private primary school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, experienced a close encounter of the third kind. Pupils from Ariel School, located in the suburbs just 20 km away from Harare, witnessed the bizarre incident near the school playground during recess

Whilst the teachers were in a meeting, the children were playing in the school field during mid-morning break, when out of the blue they saw three silver balls in the sky. With a flash of light they were gone, only to reappear somewhere else. The mysterious orbs came in and out of sight three times before starting to descend towards the school, and then at approximately 10:15 a.m. one came and landed (or hovered) in the rough woody area adjacent to the playing field.
The uncertainty to whether the craft landed or hovered is due to the fact that the sixty-two witnesses were only young children and some gave clearer testimonies than others because of their age and general awareness. The reports taken as a whole were very similar, and the overall consensus of opinion was that an object did land about 100 metres from the edge of the school field where the children were stood.
Once the silver object made its way into the woods, many of the children stopped what they were doing to go and see what had landed at the back of the field. Amazingly, the children all reported witnessing the appearance of two small beings, both dressed in tight-fitting shiny black clothing. One young observer remarked, “I felt scared because I’ve never seen such a person like that.” Another girl claimed, “They were kind of, just like looking at us. They were like, kind of astonished at what we were.”
The small men were described as having large oval-shaped eyes and shoulder length black hair, with one of the figures stood by the side of the “ship” and the other was said to be running up and down on top of the silver craft. Once the being on the top became aware of the children’s presence, they both quickly re-entered the object and quickly disappeared.

The children all ran back into the school en masse screaming, alerting the teachers to the incredible scenes that they had just witnessed. A few days after the incident, a BBC reporter visited the school to document the case, and many of the children were promptly interviewed regarding their personal experiences of the event by Harvard Professor of Psychiatry, John E. Mack and Cynthia Hind, MUFON’S coordinator for Africa, and author of the book UFOs Over Africa.
Following requests to draw what they saw, the children produced between 30 and 40 pictures, all of them strikingly similar in content and appearance. Most of the drawings contained a saucer type craft, some trees and small child-size men with large black eyes.
The two drawings below were drawn by two different children independently of each other; meaning that neither had any idea what the other had drawn. The similarities between the two are very clear.

