Ariel School drawings
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The morning of September 16, 1994 probably started like any other morning at the Ariel School, a private elementary school in Ruwa, a rural farming community in Zimbabawe. But by mid-morning, when the kids broke for recess, the lives of 62 children and their teachers would be forever changed.
During the recess, most of the teachers were inside the building at a meeting and the kids, ranging in age from five to twelve, were outside. The only adult supervisor at recess was the mother of one of the children, who operated a snack bar that sold soft drinks and snacks.
At around 10:15, some of the children saw three silver balls in the sky over the school. These balls suddenly vanished in a flash of light, then reappeared elsewhere in the sky. This pattern was repeated three times before one of the UFOs began to move down toward the school. The craft either hovered just above the ground or landed in an area about three hundred feet from the recess field. The ground here was densely wooded with trees, thorn bushes, and shoots of bamboo. The only path through the area had been carved by tractors when they tried to clear the land.
A “small man” about three feet tall appeared on top of the UFO, then walked a ways across the rough ground. According to the children interviewed by Cynthia Hind, a South African UFO researcher, the man wore a tight-fitting, shiny black suit, had long black hair, and a “scrawny” neck. His face was pale, his eyes immense. When the man became aware of the children, he allegedly disappeared. He or someone similar to him reappeared at the back of the UFO, which then took off.
Some of the children ran in terror toward the woman who was operating the snack bar, telling her what they had seen, but she didn’t believe them.
Hind arrived at the school the next day. She had already asked the headmaster to have the children make drawings of what they had seen so she reviewed the sketches and then began interviewing the children.
In Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters, John E Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote about his involvement in the investigation of the Ariel School sightings. He and his research associate, Dominique Callimanopulos, had already scheduled a trip to Zimbabwe that was unrelated to the Ariel sightings. That’s something of a synchro right there.We couldn’t find the reason for this scheduled visit, but it seems that Mack was in the right place at the right time.
So when the BBC bureau chief faxed Mack and his associate the drawings the children had done at Hind’s request, Mack decided to investigate and he and Dominique arrived at the school in early December and stayed for two days.
Mack’s background in child psychiatry was apparently a powerful asset. He met with twelve of the children, interviewed the headmaster, and met with most of the teachers. Each child they interviewed told a similar story, “that at 10:15 on that Friday morning, a large spacecraft and several smaller ones, from which one of more ‘strange beings’ had emerged, were seen hovering just above the ground or had ‘landed’ in their schoolyard.” At one point, Mack played devil’s advocate with one of the kids and suggested the possibility that she had made up the story and gotten the other kids to tell the teachers this story as a prank. Her reply was that she could understand how an adult might think that, but “that’s not what happened.”
Mack died in 2004. But in 2007, Dominique Callimanopulos and filmmaker Randall Nickerson began production of a non-commercial, edited video program presenting John Mack’s interviews with the schoolchildren and faculty. A year later, Randall Nickerson left for Africa to cull additional information about the Ariel sightings. He stayed for nine months and interviewed many of the now-adult witnesses. Click here for his findings.
The Ariel School sightings remain one of the most compelling mass sightings even now, nearly twenty years later.
Chris Knowles just posted some shows in this post of his
https://secretsun.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/ru-rcvg.html
about a show called
RCVR (pronounced Receiver)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCVR
They are 11:06 minute episodes made for the internet.
They look interesting,but I have only watched the first two,so far.
They are actually about 8 minutes long when you cut out next episode’s preview.
Unfortunately Sagan died promptly after the filming of the movie CONTACT. I’ve always wondered about the timing of his death. And, he seemed to sit on the fence, tending to move back and forth between theories; supporting alien life forms, then recanting his support. Hard to know his true thoughts and ideas, although CONTACT gives us a pretty clear clue! Wish he’d had more time with us to share his inner, real theories.
I SO agree with you, Mike. “Everything doesn’t have to be as we know it on earth.” My biggest peeve with the earth scientists and physicists is that they always contend there can’t be life on other planets or stars because the “atmosphere” wouldn’t support it, etc etc etc. They simply refuse to acknowledge that other life forms on distant planets and stars wouldn’t need oxygen or hydrogen or water or gravity or any of the life-sustaining elements that humans need. For all we know, there could be life on some planet or star that, to us, would resemble one of our rocks yet would be just as viably “alive” as we are. The same applies to the ability of life forms and crafts reaching Earth from somewhere else, whether another dimension or out there in the galaxy. Some species have quite obviously mastered the science of Time Travel and of disseminating atoms and molecules of matter and re-assembling them, having capabilities to cross Time and Space in a matter of…what? A nano-second?
WE can’t do that. But it seems that there are species who CAN do that, again, whether through a portal accessing dimensions or wormholes or black holes in space.
We’re in kindergarten here. I wish out scientists were open-minded sufficiently to realize that. Einstein and Tesla recognized it. Hawking doesn’t.
Absolutely agree, Math!
Fortunately there are some who disagree with the mainstream thought e.g. :
Professor Zdenek Kopal, ex of the University of Manchester, believes that our own genetic pattern is such that the odds against it being duplicated in another world is the number 10 followed by 936 noughts! In other words pretty remote.
Professor Sagan, who co-wrote Intelligent Life In The Universe, suggests that space people may well breathe gases we consider to be poisonous or be living happily in great cold or scolding heat or in strong acids.
Life but not as we know it!
A bit off topic,slightly,but I was just reading “Aliens in the Backyard” and read that Diane had worked with Stephen Greer and Collin Andrews.
I was just wondering what impression Diane had while working with these two gentlemen.Positive,or negative…or neither one or the other ?
Just curious to get her feedback on them,only if she is willing to give it,that is.
Mike, here’s a thought, albeit a somewhat offbeat one: Perhaps the craft was actually a “hologram” without substance in this dimension, being seen but not being three-dimensionally tangible. That could explain why no imprints were made. I no longer deny the possibility that these entities can do ANYTHING, and considering that we humans can now create holograms ourselves, certainly a species that is thousands of years advanced would be able to do something similar. Just a meandering thought…..
Strange you should think that because, a little after I had written the comment, I wondered pretty much the same: were they (UFOs) weightless? Sometimes I think our thoughts and conclusions can be too earth bound – why not a hologram? Everything doesn’t have to be as we know it on Earth.
An interesting sighting, lots of children as witnesses (and of differing cultures). Looks convincing. A couple of possible doubts though:
(a) I wonder why so few of the students were interviewed and
(b) Hind is quoted as saying, “I found no place where some object could have landed and pressed down the foliage. In fact, I should think the bamboo stumps would have been a deterrent.”
The UFO could have hovered as opposed to landing, of course.
Reminds me of this mass sighting in ’66 that landed near a school –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDF21rKkYcM
” The Westall UFO encounter is an event that occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Around 11.00 am, for about 20 minutes, more than 200 students and teachers at two Victorian state schools allegedly witnessed an unexplained flying object which descended into a nearby open wild grass field. The paddock was adjacent to a grove of pine trees in an area known as The Grange (now a nature reserve). According to reports, the object then ascended in a north-westerly direction over the suburb of Clayton South, Victoria, Australia.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westall_UFO
Here’s links to the other three parts of the documentary for those who may be interested –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rlHgNDGvRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW5L2p-5qf8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJIotTI79o
Thanks for all the links! Wen were out of town for a day….
what an incredible story and one i’d not heard before – i loved that the children were each so self-assured as to what they had experienced – a great video – and those drawings! i kept remembering that it was one of my own children who alerted me to the object flying along side the bus that time so long ago – great post – so glad you posted it!
First, a synchro of 11 11: I woke up this morning with an old song I’ve not heard in many years singing its lyrics in my mind. Researched it thoroughly and did numbers. Number of the song is 11. Number of its release date, 6-23-1953, also 11. So, here is the 11 11 yet again. Regarding this vivid sighting, I seriously, seriously doubt that children in such an impoverished part of our world would have been able to “imagine” such an event, or especially to separately “draw” what they had witnessed. Pretty phenomenal material, guys. Thank you for sharing. An oddity in this sighting is the three foot tall little man with long dark hair. That IS a new one, for me at least, but considering the Aliens have the ability to shape-shift into anything they please, perhaps they took on a type of “mask” or disguise that these children could recognize or with which they might relate. Goosebumps.
That was fascinating. I also watched the video clip, “Ariel School Interview : one year after” that was linked above the one you linked to. How can all those children be making this up? I also noted that the length of the above video was 11:11 minutes long. Thought you would like that one.
I have to confess that the reason I took the time to watch this was because it took place in Zimbabwe. I was there in 1968 when it was called Rhodesia. My husband and I were visiting his father in Salisbury where he ran the National Museum. He took us on many adventurers that were very exotic for us living in Connecticut. All that could be a book, of course. I have a link to that in my adeleart.com page if any one is interested.
Sooooo where did these aliens go? and … and…and…???
11:11: interesting!