Ariel School UFO incident
1994 sighting in Zimbabwe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 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][lower-alpha 1] Several of those that did maintain that their account of the incident is true.[1][5][6]