The Bizarre Ariel School UFO Incident: Real or Mass Psychosis?

The heat of Zimbabwe beat down on the fields near Ariel Private School. The children were playing in the heat, mid-morning break had begun, and the usual games were already well underway. There was no way the children could have known they were about to witness something that, until that moment, they could have only dreamed of. This is the story of the day that aliens came to school.

According to the reports of 62 separate children on the field that day, a group of rounded silver craft began to descend from the sky. A silence fell over the children as they watched. The craft lowered themselves past the trees and onto the field beside the school. Without a sound, doorways opened in the sides of the craft and a group of creatures with large eyes and black clothing stepped out. They began advancing on the students.

At this point, most of the class decided to flee. Some, however, were held in place, fixated by fear or curiosity. The figures approached slowly, without urgency, almost floating towards the few who remained. The children then report that they were sent a message, not vocally, but straight into their minds. The message was a simple and dire warning, interpreted with different words by each student but each holding the same meaning ‘you are in danger, your world is dying, stop killing it’. Their warning delivered the creatures then turned and left as silently as they had come, leaving the students awestruck and terrified, not of the creatures, but of the future before them.

First Reports

When these events were first reported to their teachers there was understandable scepticism. The children were dismissed and told to go back to class. There were more important things to work on. Upon returning home though the stories were passed to parents and passed around the community. They might have been dismissed out of hand, but they weren’t the only sightings out there. All over the South of the continent reports had been coming in for a few days about lights in the sky, streaking flashes, tracing scorching lines across the night.

ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation) radio put out a request for people to call in and describe what they were seeing. They were flooded with reports that all shared a common theme. A fireball was hurtling through the sky at unbelievable speed. Those who described it said it looked similar to a comet but larger than any they’d seen stargazing. As the wave of reports struck the station the whole of Zimbabwe began to break, the story from the little school in the crossroads town of Ruwa started a tsunami.

The children’s story began to be passed around the airwaves, bouncing from new channel to news channel. The atmosphere was just right for it. The reports of the giant meteor had people all over the country just intrigued enough to believe that aliens could possibly walk among them. It wasn’t long before eager ears in the American press began to prick up and the pens of investigators and journalists began to tap eagerly. The only question was who was going to be first on the scene.

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