Ariel School UFO Incident (1994)

On 16 September 1994, there was a UFO sighting outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe. Sixty-two pupils at the Ariel School aged between six and twelve said that they saw one or more silver craft descend from the sky and land on a field near their school. 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.

The Fortean writer Jerome Clark has called the incident the "most remarkable close encounter of the third kind of the 1990s". Some skeptics have described the incident as one of mass hysteria. Not all the children at the school that day stated that they saw something. Several of those that did maintain that their account of the incident is true.

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Wikipedia: Ariel School UFO incident

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_School_UFO_incident

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1. Occurred Sep 16, 1994 12:00 AM UTC
2. Submitted Jul 6, 2026 12:17 AM Historical Archive created
3. Approved Jul 6, 2026 12:17 AM Moderator reviewed