The Children of Ariel School

Connected

• The Ariel School encounterStorySame place

  The casebook story and Case No 96 are the same event: break time at Ariel Primary School, Ruwa, Friday 16 September 1994. The story is geocoded about 5 km west of the case; the school itself lies near -17.88, 31.26.

• Ariel School Report (cont.)Case fileHind follow-up

  Continuation in No 12: Dr John Mack's two days of interviews, Gunter Hofer's soil samples analysed free by the Chemistry and Soil Research Institute (Dr Keith Viewing: insignificant anomalies), and the children's two landing spots along the power line.

• Ariel School landing: the headmaster closes the book (editorial follow-up)Case fileHind follow-up

  Editorial about eighteen months later: the headmaster closed the book because children were traumatised; a Bulawayo journalist misreported it; a Belgian producer asked whether Hind and Mack bribed the children with sweets. Geocoded at the Harare placeholder, not Ruwa.

• Ariel School: small men in shiny black suits moving in slow motion (editorial recap)Case fileHind follow-up

  Recap in No 16 adding the slow-motion detail and noting Mack's November 1994 visit had the Ariel children as its main objective.

• Ariel School landing recap: blast of wind and telepathy (Case No 96, Nos 11-12)Case fileHind follow-up

  Cited twice in the UFO Effects survey: the sharp blast of wind after landing (McCampbell's 'rush of wind') and telepathic communication.

• Ariel School, Ruwa, as recalled in the review of A World History of UAPsCase fileHind follow-up

  Prier Wintle's book review recalls the children's answer to the BBC that the craft 'just went'; Hind read that as disappearance in place. Geocoded at the Harare placeholder.

• Ariel School children: the two small black-suited entitiesCase fileHind follow-up

  Entity catalogue entry: two beings about a metre tall, rugby-ball eyes, slit mouths, long black hair, tight black suits, and the pollution message received 'as if by telepathy'.

• Ariel School follow-up: the slow-motion beingsCase fileHind follow-up

  Dr Helmut Lammer's letter on slow motion as a time-frame effect; Hind again rebuts the sweets-bribery suggestion, now attributed to a Dutch TV presenter.

• Cigar-like object the day before Ariel (Thursday 15 September 1994)Case fileSame window

  Children reported a cigar-like object over the playground and on the road home on Thursday 15 September 1994, the day before the landing. Hind treats it as credible only because it was reported before Friday's event, and admits she would have been wary otherwise.

• Mrs Stevens' orange glow over the chicken houseCase fileSame window

  Mrs Stevens, on the farm beside the school, saw a huge orange ball over her chicken house in the early hours of 16 September 1994. Printed as a possible precursor; gone before her husband arrived, so single-witness.

• UAP Flap in ZimbabweCase fileSame window

  Hind's own cross-reference: 'Case No 96 Ariel School, two days later'. The spectacular 14 September 1994 event and its press coverage (The Herald, 17 September) filled the days immediately before the Friday break-time sighting.

• Flashing Lights: HarareCase fileSame place

  The Glen Lorne witnesses judged their orange light 15-20 km off toward Ruwa and Hind cross-references Ariel School; 18 months after the landing, at the peak of its publicity. The light's instant drop and extinction was first read by the witnesses themselves as a flare.