Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 16, July 1997

Ariel School: small men in shiny black suits moving in slow motion (editorial recap)

1994 · Ariel School, Ruwa, Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Hind opens the issue by recalling the Ariel School investigation, reported in issues 11 and 12, in which several of the children said that the two small men in shiny black suits appeared to move in slow motion. At the time she could find no parallel, but she now matches it with Danie van Graan's 1975 Loxton encounter and a 1995 BUFORA case from West Yorkshire. Later in the issue she records that Dr John Mack's November 1994 visit had as its main objective interviewing the Ariel children at Ruwa, that he came away with startling material, and that his involvement brought the case a great deal of favourable publicity. No date for the event is printed in this issue.

What Hind made of it

The slow-motion detail intrigued her and now has parallels in two other cases; Mack's visit gave the case favourable publicity.

In their words

  • the two small men in shiny black suits, appeared to move in slow motion

    Cynthia Hind, spread 03

  • His main objective was to interview the children of Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, and he came away with some startling material from this.

    Cynthia Hind, spread 21

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews Nos 11 and 12
  • 16-03-1 Loxton
  • 16-03-2 West Yorkshire
  • Visitors to Africa p37 (spread 21)

Connected

  • The Children of Ariel SchoolCase 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.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 16 (July 1997), spread 03, 21

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1994 · Zimbabwe

The Ariel School encounter

Sixty-two children at break time said something silver came down beside the playground, and drew the same thing for weeks.

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