In 1994, something astounding happened in Ruwa, Zimbabwe at the Ariel middle school.
On September 16, at mid-morning break, several children saw two silvery disk-shaped objects skitter erratically across the sky. They vanished, then reappeared elsewhere in the sky, then descended into the trees and brush about 100 yards from the school, in an area consider “off-limits” (due to snakes and wildlife). The children were amazed and curious. Some 62 eventually watched the object over a fifteen-minute period. Two beings appeared, one "floating" across the top of the object, the other gliding towards them just above the ground. The younger children became terrified at the sight of their faces; the entities' features matched descriptions of the classic grey “aliens.” One girl locked eyes with one of the beings and said she’d received a feeling or vision from those shiny black almonds: that the planet was suffering due to human environmental activities, and there would be a cataclysm.
This particular “vision” has been reported hundreds of times in encounter reports going back to the 1940s. In the 1950s and 60s it had to do mostly with atomic bomb tests. Since the abandonment of that abhorrent practice, these beings' messages to "contactees" or "experiencers" have concentrated on environmental degradation.
Now, we would think that these kids wouldn't be immune to conscious or unconscious cultural influences that conditioned them into perceiving these things as "aliens", but for the fact that these children were, while having heard about UFOs, unaware of the very particular stereotyped beings and the associated catastrophic visions so-called experiencers have undergone. Their relative isolation from Western media is strong evidence that something real happened.
There was physical evidence as well, the type that deniers clamor for but when confronted with always spout mundane explanations. In this case, a large burned area where the children saw the saucer touch down and which subsequently upon which nothing would grow.
Harvard psychiatry professor John Mack, who had been investigating experiencers in the United States for five years when he heard of this event, wasted no time in traveling to Zimbabwe to interview the kids.
The 2-hour video below is haphazard and non-chronological in presentation. Its first segment is a group interview with the kids a year after the event (when it seems that cultural ideas learned in the interim perhaps had shaped their thinking in a minor way). One girl says she had nightmares in which the beings would come to take her away. Another girl mentions, since the experience, of having heard of the "missing pregnancy" phenomena investigators Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs extensively documented.
The second section is the interviews conducted by journalist Cynthia Hinds with the kids within four days of the sighting. These are riveting. This many children could not make up such a consistent story with all its details being virtually identical. The teachers testified to their terror and bewilderment just after it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7B2oRyI4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6sXOb497Gs
The long video above duplicates material in these two shorter ones about Professor Mack’s work and his investigation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww6uzFpKBQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKC11SDnog
Several things here are mildly interesting to ponder:
“Ariel” is one of the traditional Hebrew archangels.
The “craft” landed in an area “forbidden” to the children—and just on the edge of it, which could be considered a “liminal” zone. Liminal places are considered magical in every culture. Classic examples are Celtic "fairy circles", forbidden woods, haunted wells and abandoned houses (in djinn myths). This is very similar to the Westhall High school sighting in Australia on April 6, 1966, when three silver saucers landed in a paddock just off school property then took off leaving swirled and flattened imprints in the vegetation. Children in Broad Haven, Wales, saw a UAP in February 1977. That area known as the "Broad Haven triangle" and has been the center of UAP and paranormal manifestations for decades.
All the children agreed that the beings were dressed in shiny black, skin-fitting suits. Several children said that one of the entities had long black hair. The children raised in local tradition were terrified, because they associated the beings with tokoloshe, bad spirits whose depictions in some Zulu art eerily resemble the greys.
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This is considered one of the best UFO/UT encounters that has ever occurred, due to the number of witnesses, their continued sticking to this story to this day, and the improbability of contamination of their testimonies by detailed “Western” media accounts of these encounters. But we have hardly heard about it.