Have you ever heard the story of the aerial school UFO?
Probably. It's one of the most compelling UFO stories ever told, as is, of course, every UFO story ever told.
Now, if you're not familiar with this one, the summary of it is this. 62 primary school children saw a UFO and an
alien while on their mid morning break at the aerial primary school in Rua, Zimbabwe.
Um, compelling. Now, the part that makes people go, "Wow!" is that 62 kids saw it. They all reported the same thing.
None of them even knew what UFOs were, and they have never changed their story all these years later. What you may not
know, though, is that there is some powerful bullshitery at work here because in actuality, the number of kids
is unknown. They didn't exactly report the same thing. They absolutely and unquestionably did know about UFOs and most of them have changed their story. Some so much that they even admitted that they were lying. And that's fine. They were kids and that's what kids do.
Kids are kids and kids play and kids have imaginations and whatever. That's all fine.
But what I don't think is fine though is how this UFO investigation was conducted. If you take a look through the recorded on camera interviews, you'll notice just how much the MUFON investigator and the Harvard psychiatrist influenced these children's testimonies. And since we have the actual words that came out of their mouths, you'll also notice just how much their reports have been distorted and altered to make the story more compelling. Now, obviously, it's a bit rude to say that uh they intentionally distorted these children's testimonies. So, I'll just say it's irrelevant to me if they did it intentionally or not.
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In the week leading up to the aerial school alien invasion, students at Ariel had a discussion in one of their general discussion classes about UFO. You got to be [ __ ] kidding me.
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No, I am not kidding you, Ghoul. The kids were talking about UFOs that week. But why? Well, because Mean Gene at 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 14th of September, 1994, brother UFO mania hit Zimbabwe and was running wild. At 9:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, there was some [ __ ] in the sky flying slowly and silently that looked like a fireball or a comet or a
meteor. Now, a surprising statistic that I discovered recently is that not a large percentage of the world's population are astrophysicists. So, it's pretty normal for people to see things in the sky and not know what they are.
So, as would be expected, a multitude of reports were then made about this fireball or comet or meteor.
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On to the next day, Thursday the 15th of September, 1994 ... a handful of pupils at Ariel Primary School apparently saw a UFO in the sky. Some of them said that it looked like a pencil or a cigarette
or a circle with a flashing light at one end. Here's what one of the kids said.
Quote, "The day before the spaceship came, my friends and I were sitting in the playground and one of my friends, her name's Emily, she looked up into the sky and she said, "Oh, there's a UFO. It flew along for about a minute or so and then it disappeared."
In case you were wondering, no, this is [laughter] not the actual sighting. The kids didn't actually report this at the time either, and they would only mention this later when talking about the famous sighting, which would only occur the next day. But, as is, of course,
tradition in UFO stories, these reports all got merged together to make something more compelling, which
ironically makes it less compelling when you find that out. Why don't people mention the sighting the day before?
