The Ruwa Ariel School UFO Incident

This week, we head to Ruwa, Zimbabwe, for a wild UFO encounter. One day at the Ariel School in Ruwa, a group of children claimed to witness a silver disc fly down from the sky on a rock.

Then, they witnessed beings emerge from the spacecraft. And that is just the beginning. Could these children truly have witnessed an alien encounter, or is it most likely mass hysteria? Listen now.

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What is up, Bizarros?! This week, we travel to South Africa to take a look at the Ariel School UFO Incident.

 What Happened In Ruwa, Zimbabwe On September 16, 1994?

On September 16th, 1994, in Ruwa (14 miles southeast of the capital, Harare), 62 children at The Ariel School claimed they saw a UFO and saw an alien exit the craft after it landed on a hill near the playground. 

The Ariel school was a normal elementary school in Ruwa, a rural area of South Africa, until the alleged sighting.

Some have claimed that this UFO sighting may have been one of the most significant events in ufologist history.

The school year had just started, and the children began getting used to the normal routine of school life, but on September 16th, the students at the Ariel school started to notice something out of the ordinary on their morning break.

The children were playing outside while the teachers were inside for a faculty meeting.

That’s when a few students saw a flat disc fly from the sky and land on a nearby hill.

Then, several children ran to the edge of the playground and said the disk was sitting atop the hill next to the school. That’s when they saw figures emerging from the craft.

The children said they were only in the area for 15 minutes, and then they left as quickly as they came.

They told their teachers, who did not necessarily believe them.

But when the children came home that night, they all told their parents the same thing, which launched an investigation into the UFO sighting.

When a local UFO teacher asked the children separately to draw what they saw, they were all consistent in drawing a silver disk with a classic alien figure staring near the ship.

One child said

“It looked like it was glinting in the trees. It looked like a disc. Like a round disc,”

“I saw something silver on the ground amongst the trees. And a person in black,” another said.

The children that went to this small school had a variety of backgrounds, but they all had one thing in common, and that was money, as the tuition for the school was quite expensive.

Cynthia Hind believed that the children were from more traditional families and found local stories more believable than aliens they said, “that the figures were Zvikwambo (spirits of humans, raised by magic) or tokoloshe (evil goblin creatures of Shona and Ndebele folklore). “

“Cynthia believed these different interpretations, accompanied by similar drawings and descriptions, gave more credibility to the idea that the children had all seen a similar event.”

The incident attracted the attention of Harvard psychiatrist and professor John Mack. He came and started investigating the children. That’s when the children started talking about a telepathic message that was sent to them while the aliens were on the hill.

Mass Hysteria or Real Encounter?

Mass hysteria

This theory posits that one kid said, “Hey, look, what’s that?” and then the other children claimed they saw an alien on the hill.

Quote: “What if one guy made it up?”

One student from the class, Dallyn stated, “No, I didn’t see the UFO. I made up the whole thing.”

He said that he and a friend came up with an idea they never thought would work that might get them out of class.

Dallyn began pointing to a rock shining in the sun: “There’s a spaceship, there’s an alien.”

“Within half an hour, all the kids were talking about it. All the kids were running around, and the whole school was buzzing,”

It’s not that simple, though, because two girls from the same class who claimed they saw it said, “Huge eyes that you just can’t not look towards. And once we got that eye connection, everything else around us just disappeared,” said Emma.

“That’s when I started feeling messages. The ideas just came across over into me, into my being. It wasn’t talking. It was almost telepathic. It was just a feeling, this overwhelming feeling, of how important the environment is.”

“It didn’t touch me physically, but it felt like with that stare, it touched every ounce of my body,” said Salma. She, too, felt messages: “We need clean air, beautiful plants, clean soil to be able to live and thrive.”

John Mack, the Harvard professor, “unequivocally believed the children after his trip to Africa and considered the Ariel School sighting to be one of the most credible sightings ever.”

Most of the kids are still convinced they know what they saw.

Many of the witnesses, including brothers Tapfu and Kudzanai, said that people over the years tried to discredit their experiences or convince them that what they saw wasn’t real.

“It definitely was not a rock, I know what a rock looks like,” said Tapfu, laughing. “On the lower half of it, there were lights.”

Kudzanai said he saw the being and that it “terrified” him. “Short, long arms, crazy, greenish, oval-shaped head.”

Although Dallyn is an outlier amongst the 62, as he said, “his former schoolmates were duped,” saying, “Maybe they truly believe they’d seen it, but I’m sorry to tell you that it never happened. They’re lying to themselves.”

Other Alien Sightings In South Africa

Alleged Alien Sighting From Artangel 

Cynthia Hind reported in November 1996, “I went to Bindura, some 90 km from Harare, to interview a 17-year-old named Lloyd Karambakuwa, a student at the Hermann Gemeiner Secondary School, studying for his 0 levels.”

This is what he told me.

“On March 6, 1996, between 1.00 and 1.30, he woke up, and because he knew it would be quiet at that hour, he decided to study for his exams.

Whilst thus engaged, he heard a clicking sound, not unlike a telephone dialing, except there were no telephones in this area. It continued for some minutes, so Lloyd decided to check what it could be.

He opened the front door and looked outside. He could hear the sound coming from up the road and when he glanced in that direction, he witnessed something very strange.

He quickly went outside and hid behind a hedge to get a better view. He was able to observe a small figure, about 1 meter high, with a head like a rugby ball, dressed all in white overalls. On its back, the creature had a small satchel, attached to which was an aerial with a flashing red light.

Lloyd was terrified. He told me he was “asphyxiated with fear”, and ran back into the house, jumped into bed and covered himself with his blankets. He slept fitfully for the rest of the night.

At 6.00 the next morning he went to look where the creature had walked and found several footprints which he could not identify and which he attributed to the creature.

When he arrived at school he told his friends about seeing a ghost in the night, but one of his friends suggested that it was a UFO. Lloyd is now under the impression that the creature is called a UFO.”

Second UFO Incident 

My name is Johan Reitman, and I farm near Feathersdorp, 150 km from Harare. I am 31 years old. On 5th February 1996 I woke up from a bad dream just after midnight, when I heard a car go past. I got up and looked out of the bedroom window, which faces the front of the farm.

I watched as two cars passed each other, a strange sight, as there are usually few vehicles to be seen, and none at night. One car pulled into my gate, and I thought immediately, “Oh no. those guys are coming to pinch my new engine on the borehole”.

I rubbed my eyes and face to make sure I wasn’t still asleep, and I looked at the car again. It was long and wide and made a low humming sound. I could see lights at the back, a row of red lights, and a front light that shone high enough to illuminate the tree tops.

This car, or object, stopped at my gate for a good 30 seconds and then drove on as if the gate had been opened. And that was it: it was gone!

I took my torch, my rifle, four farm workers, and my dogs, and we went out to the gate. Despite the fact it had just rained, there were no tire tracks or human tracks on the road. As we approached the gate, I could feel the heat coming up from the surface of the road, a really oppressive heat radiating from the ground.

Even my ears felt flushed with the heat, and my workers and I were soaked with perspiration. It was about 12.30 hours by now, so when we found nothing further, we all went back home.

It was only the following morning that it occurred to me that when we reached the gate, it was closed. This means the car had disappeared through a closed gate, because I had been watching it when it disappeared and the gate hadn’t moved.

The next day, I sent one of the farm workers to fetch some sheep who were lost in the bush. On his way back, he said he saw an object straddling the road. By the time he reached the spot, it was gone, but strangely enough, the sheep would not walk over the area where the object had been. Instead, they divided around it.

My workers were convinced this was a ghost, and because I am a Christian myself, I believe it was a phantom or spiritual phenomenon of some sort. I don’t believe in UFOs.

Third UFO Incident

My name is Credo Mutwa. There are things that fly through the night that you call UFOs, which we in Africa call Abahambi Abavutayo, “the fiery visitors.”

Long before they were heard of in other parts of the world, we, the people of Africa, had contact with these things and the creatures inside them.

I can only speak with certain constraints because we are not allowed to talk in detail about these sacred things, or else the star ships will stop visiting us.

There is a creature called the Mutende-ya-ngenge. It is a grey or white creature with a large head. Its face is chalk-white, and large green eyes go around the creature’s head so it can look at you over its shoulder.

The Mutende sometimes captures human beings, cuts them open, then closes them up again and makes them forget what has happened.

This is only discovered if the person is put into a trance and then remembers. I was once abducted by fellows like little dolls.

They paralyzed me, then painfully examined me by sticking instruments up my nostrils. A female creature seduced me, but it was very cold and unpleasant, a feeling of being violated. I then found myself back in the bush, and when I approached my village, all the dogs tried to attack me, and I had to be rescued.

I then learned I had been missing for three days. Many creatures are watching over us curiously, and I think they are regulating our development for some reason.

Is The Ariel UFO Incident True?

What do you think, Bizarros?

Were the children experiencing mass hysteria?

Did a UFO land near the school?

Why would an alien choose to land so close to a school?

Let us know in the comments what you think about the Ariel School UFO Incident.

Sources used in this article: 

National library of medicine

Vice

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