Southern Africa Unexplained

Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999

Ariel School follow-up: the slow-motion beings

1994 · Ariel School, Ruwa, Harare, Zimbabwe

What was reported

A brief follow-up to the Ruwa schoolchildren case. Hind had been struck that several children said the two small figures running up and down in front of them moved in slow motion, something she had also heard from Danie van Graan at Loxton in 1975 and from Stuart in Mutare, without knowing why. Dr Helmut Lammer of the Austrian Academy of Sciences wrote after reading her article to point out that movement observed from a different time frame would appear slowed. Hind notes the children could not have known this and simply described what they saw, and uses the point to rebut a Dutch television presenter who speculated that she and Dr John Mack had bribed the children with sweets.

What Hind made of it

Hind takes the independent recurrence of the slow-motion detail across three cases as a mark of authenticity and dismisses the bribery suggestion.

Explanation offered
Dutch TV presenter suggested the children were bribed with sweets; Hind rejects it

In their words

  • the two little men running up and down in front of them, ran in slow motion

    Cynthia Hind, spread 04

Cross references

  • UFO Afrinews No 11
  • UFO Afrinews No 12
  • Danie van Graan, Loxton 1975
  • Stuart, Mutare (UFO Afrinews No 17)

Connected

  • The Children of Ariel SchoolCase 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.

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

    The same allegation answered twice: that Hind and Mack bribed the children with sweets. In No 15 it comes from Belgian producer Jan van Eetvelt; in No 20 from a 'Dutch television presenter'. Probably one Low Countries broadcast.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 20 (July 1999), spread 04

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