![]() The mouth was just a slit and the ears were hardly discernible.” Guy G said: “ could see the little man (about a metre tall) was dressed in a black, shiny suit that he had long black hair and his eyes, which seemed lower on the cheek than our eyes, were large and elongated. Some of the black children thought the short little beings were zvikwambo, or tokoloshes – the evil goblins of Shona and Ndebele folklore – and burst into tears, fearing they would be eaten. ![]() One of the white students, for example, “thought at first that the little man in black might have been Mrs Stevens’ gardener, but then he saw that the figure had long, straight black hair, ‘not really like black hair’, so he realised he had made a mistake!” ![]() The UFO investigator goes on to record the testimonies of several of the children, who she says represented “a cross-section of Zimbabweans: black African children from several tribes, coloured children (a cross-breeding of black and white), Asian children (whose grandparents were from India) and white children, mostly Zimbabwean-born, but whose parents were either from South Africa or Britain”.Īlthough they all came from wealthy families (tuition at Ariel School was expensive), Hind believed their cultural differences gave rise to differing interpretations of the event, and that the differences in interpretation made the details that were common to all accounts very compelling indeed. The children were a little bit afraid, although they were also curious.” The teachers had all entered the staff room for a meeting and the only adult outdoors was the tuckshop mistress, who was soon swamped by children claiming they had seen “three or four objects coming into the rough bush area … disc-like objects coming in along the power lines and finally landing in the rough, among the trees. They were drawn to an area beyond their playing field of “long grass with thorn and other indigenous bushes, trees growing higgledy-piggledy fashion, and undergrowth thick and heavy enough to hide a child should he venture there”. At 10am, Hind writes, on a hot day, the children were let out for their mid-morning break. Hind’s narrative closely mirrors Sarah’s recollection. And then, on September 16, Hind received the report from Ariel School, which she records as Case 96, and describes as “one of the most exciting UFO stories of this or any year”. She also received several reports of alien sightings around the same time: a young boy and his mother reported a daylight sighting a trucker who had seen strange beings on the road at night. Hind, though, recorded receiving dozens of reports of a capsule-like fireball, trailing fire and flanked by two smaller capsules. Round about 20:50 to 21:05 hours, a pyrotechnic display of some magnificence appeared in the almost clear night skies of this part of the continent.”Īn Ariel schoolchild telling her story of the alien who arrived.Īstronomers across the region soon reported that the “pyrotechnic display”, seen as far afield as Zambia and Botswana, had been a meteor shower. “Wednesday, 14th September, 1994, was an exciting night for Southern Africa. ![]() I had brought along a printout of Issue 11, which I opened on the bar counter before Sarah on Hind’s article “UFO flap in Zimbabwe: Case No 95”. Hind, who died in 2000, had publicly acknowledged her own experiences with otherwordly beings in the past, and had dedicated the past decade and a half of her life to investigating UFO sightings on the African continent on behalf of the Mutual UFO Network, and then publishing her findings in the very collectable newsletter, UFO Afrinews. #Alien invasion today driver#What was his name now … Mack, Dr John Mack, who I heard was killed by a drunk driver a few years back.” It was via her, I think, that we heard about a famous shrink who was coming from the US to assess the children. It got so that the teachers started to freak out, too, and a local UFO expert called Cynthia Hind was invited to speak to everyone. “But the next day the school received a bunch of calls from parents wanting to know why their kids were spooked. The teachers told them to shut up, as teachers are wont to do, and classes proceeded. When the kids returned to class they were completely freaked and couldn’t stop nattering about little men who looked a bit like Michael Jackson. Sixty-two kids between the ages of about six and 12 saw the aliens land and get out of their little ships. “Whaddya wanna know? Actually, it’ll be simpler if I just shoot. ![]()
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