Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998

Ariel School, Ruwa, as recalled in the review of A World History of UAPs

1994 · Ariel School, Ruwa, 30 kilometres from Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

Reviewing A World History of UAPs, Prier Wintle singles out Hind's chapter UAPs in Africa and her description of the Ariel School sighting at Ruwa, 30 km from Harare, where 62 children but no adults saw objects land and little men get out. He recalls a BBC interviewer asking the children how the visitors left and their answer that it just went; the interviewer did not understand, but Hind knew they meant the craft had simply disappeared. Wintle calls this the Magonia effect and complains that the book otherwise ignores Vallee's concept entirely.

What Hind made of it

Hind understood the children's 'it just went' as the craft simply disappearing.

In their words

  • No adults saw the objects land and the little men get out but 62 children did.

    Prier Wintle, spread 21

  • It just went

    Ariel School children, as recalled by Prier Wintle, spread 21

Cross references

  • A World History of UAPs, ed. Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacey (1997)
  • Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee

Connected

  • The Children of Ariel SchoolCase 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.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 18 (July 1998), spread 21

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