The Zimbabwe schoolyard UFO landing

It's often highlighted that 62 children were witnesses, but when you look closer, there were only a handful of children who actually said they saw something. And I don't find the arguments "why would children lie?" very convincing, because anyone who's spent time around kids knows that they can be fantasists and to feed off each other too.

When I was a kid I "saw" the easter bunny. Now clearly, I didn't. But I was convinced I did, and I got my cousins onto the same thing too, just by me being adamant I had seen it. Suddenly they had and they could tell you things about the easter bunny too.

I do wonder if they saw something and interpreted it through what they had seen or been hearing about elsewhere though. Also, they weren't interviewed properly afterwards. What we see happened awhile after the event and the kids are put in one room to talk about it, rather than split up. Then, they are asked leading questions. It's not very satisfactory.

There is a history of mass hysteria events involving children. And note the similarities between this event and some events with religious overtones, alleged miraculous visitations from divine figures, like Fatima. However, note that none of these Zimbabwean kids, now adults, many of them now in esteemed positions in life, have ever recanted or walked back their claims. In fact they've doubled down despite the sometimes unwelcome attention this brings. I can't dismiss this incident out of hand, and anyone who does, lacks an open mind.

A good thrashing would have set them aright!

Where was the cane?

I really enjoyed this documentary and watched it several times. This segment was the least convincing to me, though. Same thing with sighting in Australia. Maybe mass hysteria or something like it is the explanation. It is a great subject to vet lost in though.

They just saw Madonna arriving at the school with a helicopter for a quick shopping spree, aka adopting a few black children.

Well she does no longer look human, but i doubt she would produce any profound revelations for the kiddies.

[quote] but i doubt she would produce any profound revelations for the kiddies.

Did she perform Material Girl for them?

It's not just children who are prone to exaggerating. Adults are just as apt to do it if they see a lot of excitement around a particular event. All it takes is one person to make some fantastical claim, and then one more latches on, and another, and then it grows until it's mass hysteria. If the news media gets involved the hysteria just magnifies. Everybody wants to get their little bit of fame.

Something happened. It is not all fantasy. They reaffirmed what they saw as adults.

One of my sons, aged 7, is convinced that he once saw flying on his sleigh. Not just from afar, but quite close, go over our roof. He is adamant.

So no, I don't believe in a whatever a bunch of school kids have convinced themselves of.

...once saw Santa flying...

Doubtful. Why would a UFO fly to a shithole country?

The “other” three letters: LSD.

This is like miracles from Christians. Miracles from 2000 years ago we're like a guy walked on water. And there were tons of miracles back then. Absolutely Unverifiable. Nowadays, almost no miracles are happening. Because people are not as gullible as 2000 years ago.

Same with sightings of UFOs, the yeti etc. They are more and more rare, in remote areas (this one is in Zimbabwe). Unverifiable. How convenient! Why not in the middle of Time Square where hundreds of people with a phone could record?

I can think of a lot of reasons why not. Do you seriously think a landing in Time Square would end well?

[quote] The Zimbabwe schoolyard UFO landing

It sounds like the title of a Bono album.

He's not that imaginative or that interesting.

If you're avoiding being seen, sure not Time Square, but then why even land in a schoolyard? Why not the middle of an unpopulated area? It's so convenient it always happens in places where things cannot be verified and are based on hearsay.

R15, that doesn't make sense.

I have a working theory aliens that come here are disaster tourists. Its why they only ever turn up to meth country and apparently Zimbabwe in its early stages of collapse. When they actually land in Time Square its probably time to start playing Nearer, my God, to Thee and head for the bunkers.

Maybe it was a Zimbabwe thing. Could it have been a Zimbabwe UFO pop-culture fascination thingy??

There were news reports in advance of the alleged landing that may have precipitated this.

If I were an alien there is no way I'd land at the White House or in a major city. The chance of being killed or detained after5 stepping out of the saucer would have to be close to 100%.

One thing that I found suspect was how as adults they were taking about how the aliens sent them messages warning them of impending environmental and ecological disasters on Earth. That seemed like embellishment, since there’s no mention of these warnings from them as kids.

Moo!

R23 one little girl talks about environmental doom to the Harvard psychiatrist.

Gab. Gabbing children.

I believe them

Ee-p!

Comedians have pointed out that what you NEVER hear is:

"I saw a UFO last night. The other members of the Board and I were just wrapping up our meeting and there it was, right outside the windows. We all saw it and spent the next hour bringing our different specialities to a discussion of what it might have been. Then we reported it to my old school friend the Defence Minister."

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All the children wanted to be special and get on tv probably. This was the sure fire way.

I wonder how much these aliens are paying for their tickets. Doesn’t seem worth it.

Another witness:

Blue Room Media is 1 of the newer YT channels that deal with the various UFO subjects.

They are cataloging all of the encounters that they're aware of on 1 YT channel.

This episode below has the 4-6-66 Australia school yard encounter seen by over 200 students & 3 faculty members (among other cases) =

Airliner encounter =

Underwater UFOs a.k.a. USOs =

Historical Archives UFO sketches =

Great motorcyclist UFO encounter =

Interesting CT. UFO case from '56 =

[quote] Randall Nickerson presenting the Ariel Phenomenon with two of the original eye witnesses.

The author is quite dull and not very bright, so you can skip to 57:00 or so to hear the witnesses.

The Westall school UFO case is given extra credibility by the statements from the Science teacher. We was not a hysterical and easily led child and has confirmed it was a classic UFO.

The Barney & Betty Hill (not Rubble) case always intrigued me. She even drew an insterstellar map. And they were never able to classify the dust residue from her dress.

The Dyatlav Pass incident.

[quote]The article, titled “The Enigma of the Fireballs,” said that the skiers had been killed by heat rays or balls of fire associated with U.F.O.s. In his original examination of the scene, Ivanov had found trees with unusual burn marks, which “confirmed that some kind of heat ray, say, or a powerful force whose nature is completely unknown (to us, at least) acted selectively on specific objects”—in this case, people. The last photograph in Krivonishchenko’s camera showed flares and streaks of light against a black background.

UFO was one theory. However, the article embraces the avalanche conclusion.

R44, there should be a thread about that.

Who is the nut who keeps starting these ufo threads?

What the fuck is Time Square? Seriously. It’s Times Square.

A “flying saucer-like object” was spotted over O'Hare in November 2006 by pilots, airline management and mechanics.

R44 The avalanche was dismissed as impossible as the experienced hikers

wouldn't have pitched their tents in such an area, The photos back this up.

The coroners who were getting the corpses were told ahead of time to take

specific pills & other measures that would reduce exposure to radiation.

I love the childrens' beautiful accents!

I also saw the Easter Bunny!

It sounds like the children's aliens have the same message that is talked about daily in nearly every media channel on earth - environmentalism. Groundbreaking stuff.

Visitation from unearthly being who gives children a profound and apocalyptic message.

Zimbabwe or Fatima?

R10 ask him when he’s an adult.

It would be interesting if anyone would come forwards saying I didn’t see it, and could be verified to have been present.

If it is true and the aliens did warn the schoolchildren about environmental harm then I really like the aliens.

"I saw the funny man".

Why the FUCK would they land in Zimbabwe? Unless they were looking for Vibranium.

Dyatlov

I used to be way into ufo stuff, but this and the movie its in so freaked me out, i cant watch tht shit anymore. Too dam real.

Times square is meth country.

R58 nails it. A total Davida thread. Old bag is obsessed with this shit.

I'm not sure why you'd be freaked out by this story. The aliens did not mean harm.

The illustrations are kind of frightening because they are done in a childlike way. Everyone has a different nightmare fuel; some people are afraid of clowns - not me.

Mass hysteria and group delusions are a thing. Doesn't mean i am going to dismiss this though.

We live in an age of constant surveillance. Half the humans on earth now have amazing video cameras in their pockets at all times. It's time to stop worrying too much about the old accounts and blurry photographs. We are starting to see grainy videos of objects appearing to act in ways that don't match with our understanding of physics. We will likely know soon enough what these things are and get better video of them.

There is also a long history of liars and scammers associated with UFO accounts. There's an entire industry set up to make money off people who want to buy books and go to conferences.

It's unlikely any alien spacecraft would have living beings on it if it came from somewhere else. Our own fast tech evolution towards drones suggests the old accounts of alien beings on these crafts is a lot like biblical "miracles" - stories that stretched the bounds of the imagination at the time but not by much and seem quaint in retrospect.

There may be an entire level of reality we can not process. Read about DMT experiences or the book LSD and the mind of the universe. What is going on here may be far stranger than little green men riding a space plane across the universe to visit.

Also, there has never, ever been a claim of supernatural anything that has stood up to a scientific test. All the craziest and fun to think about shit--psychic powers from mind reading to speaking to the dead, to future predicting to telekinesis (items levitating or moving through mental power)--there hasn't been a single person who could actually perform these things that hasn't been revealed (or admitted to be) a total fraud.

Every single attempt to scientifically validate these claims, which are not uncommon, has failed over the last 50 years. Just like every UFO narrative tends to fall apart once actual evidence gets investigated.

They're more likely to be trans-dimensional than from another planet. Time travelling drones mapping history perhaps.

[quote] They're more likely to be trans-dimensional than from another planet.

Not everybody is trans! That claim is literal violence!

Does the scientific method lend itself to every scenario. NO it is a tool not a certainty of anything in itself.