Southern Africa Unexplained

Case No 96 · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995

Cigar-like object the day before Ariel (Thursday 15 September 1994)

1994 · Ariel School playground and the road home from the school, Ruwa, about 20 km from Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

While following up the Ariel case, Hind learned that some children had seen a cigar-like object on Thursday 15 September 1994, the day before the main event. One young boy said he and his mother, driving home from school in broad daylight, saw an object ahead of them. Three little girls sitting in the playground that day independently described something like a cigarette in the sky that showed itself very briefly and then vanished. Hind says she would have been wary had the report come after the Friday encounter, since the children could easily have been swayed by the big event; because it came first she treats it as worth investigating and promises a fuller report in a later issue.

What Hind made of it

Considered credible because it preceded the main Friday event; under investigation for a later issue

In their words

  • Had it been after the Friday event, I would have been wary of the report

    Cynthia Hind, spread 06

Cross references

  • Case No 96 Ariel School
  • UFO Afrinews No 11

Connected

  • The Children of Ariel SchoolCase 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.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 12 (July 1995), spread 06

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