Ariel School (Ruwa, 1994) — Children talk about witnessing the 1994 UFO landing at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe [Eyes On Cinema]
Source: YouTube, “Children talk about witnessing the 1994 UFO landing at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe”, Eyes On Cinema channel — re-upload of original 1994 interview footage. URL: https://youtu.be/q8pymWSKAPQ (8:33; ~395k views; uploaded 2022-06-03) Captured: 2026-06-11 via YouTube auto-captions. Auto-caption text is lowercase and unpunctuated. What this is: Footage of Ariel School pupils interviewed within days of the 16 Sep 1994 sighting (the Tim Leach / BBC material). The children describe the silver craft, the figure(s) in black, and the telepathically-received ‘message’ (an environmental theme — that people pollute and harm the Earth). This is the footage that carries the widely-quoted child statements about the message. Part of the Ariel School (Ruwa, Zimbabwe, 16 Sep 1994) source set — see ariel-school-ufo-1994.
um we were playing down over there on the on the log yeah and then we saw something shiny so we all ran down over there and it was in the early morning it was at break time yeah and then we saw something shiny and we saw two two people they were in black tight black suit and they had big eyes and a small we didn’t actually see their nose it was quite small and their mouth was quite small as well one of them was running in slow motion up across the ship and the other one was standing beside the ship yeah you made a drawing huh it was it looked like this no yeah something like that i couldn’t see the eyes or the nurse on the mouth it was just blank like a piece of paper well when they came i thought they were crazy this is the first thing you saw i thought they were crazy just coming to our school doing nothing and all i saw was something like silver coming down and i said what must that be and everybody’s crowding it i must go crowd too then i went and i started crowding and everybody then more people came more and then i said hey i can’t see anymore come on somebody i’m sure come on and then i went to the front and i started seeing more of them and then i just ran away um the day before the spaceship came my friends and i were sitting in the playground and one of my friends her name emily she looked up into the sky and she said oh there’s a ufo she said and i looked at it and she said no just kidding it’s an airplane and we looked up and um i thought to myself that can’t be an airplane because it was very shiny it looked kind of like a cigarette you know it was a long thing and then on the end it was all shiny and um so i said maybe it is a ufo so we’re all kind of like getting scared now and then um the day that it happened then we started thinking yeah that must have been a ufo in the sky because my brother also saw it but he’s left the school now it was sort of like sort like a round shape it’s not like a plate so like two plates that was just like on top of each other then there was not like the um halt the hatch foot and also like in between two trees which you couldn’t see that clearly and it was just silver all over i didn’t see any men or something like that you saw one ufo that’s surrounded by little ones yeah one favorite spaceship yeah let me see let me see your drawing one big one one big ship and then small ones surrounding it with um with their lights yeah surrounding the ship like uh seance this is sean’s drawing yes yeah basically yeah and okay one landed the big one landed and the two aliens came out yes and what happened with the little ones the little ones they were just flowing around in the air they didn’t yeah they didn’t touch the ground and these major silver lights yeah yeah we’re making different color lights like yeah flash to green then they would go to blue blue and then yeah yeah purple and red but it was like it was going like each one to each one but quickly they’re going quickly like as if it was one ship moving yeah okay yellow no i didn’t have a silver crayon so i did it yellow yeah so but what happened you came home and you told your parents yes some of them didn’t believe it my mom didn’t believe me your mom didn’t believe you my mom’s mom also is that hard because if you see something and nobody believes you what happens well yeah you feel sad you stop you’re lost you start to think as if it wasn’t true yeah and people people say to you no it wasn’t true so you you think it wasn’t true then you think that you’re mad yeah yeah and after that you get all upset yeah and everyone starts teasing and my friends over the road when i go there and i tell them about it they just say oh he believes in aliens oh he’s stupid you’ve seen too many movies yeah was there nobody in your neighborhood who believed you my mom and dad my granny and my granddad believed me but my uncle didn’t where the spaceship had landed all the the insects and ants and stuff like that were all dead and there was a huge black mark thing and my mom said might have just been a might have just been a fire there but i don’t think there was i think it was the alien ship yeah but have you have gone to the place of course and have you seen anything no we weren’t allowed in evidence i mean that it was there some other people came to the school and they went out the boundary of the playground and they went to go and see what had happened there and they saw that the grass was burnt and all the living things had died there in that area him and his parents and his brother and sister all believed me and my mother just believed me but my dad didn’t believe anything i said anything and did you describe it uh describe it to them exactly what happened yeah and i drew it on a paper and i said daddy this is what it looked like and then he’s doing well and he said uh michael i think you’re telling the truth now and then that’s all he said of it and that’s all who was scared not all of you huh who who was dreaming about it since then yes yes in a bad way yeah in a bad way no let me tell me first in a bad way why you have nightmares about it yes i used to but then after about a year i stopped dreaming about it i dreamt that um the same one i saw without hair he came into my bedroom and he took me from my bed did you dream that yes yeah and then i just screamed i woke up and screamed and what did your mom say well she she just kept on saying it was a nightmare she didn’t really believe me i wasn’t scared a bit no it’s not at all nothing it was all fun to me um i heard this lady on tv i think it was still dark and she said this lady got kidnapped and she had babies that were aliens that’s why you were afraid of yes yeah i think the aliens came because they are curious like us and um well they want to learn about us and we want to learn about them some people say that um people are saying that the aliens came to warn us something’s gonna happen that something bad is going to happen to the earth i think they came here to um try and warn us that the children because we’re young for a long time we’ve got a long time till we die um to warn us that in when we’re older there’s something gonna happen to the earth yeah and not to pollute because we’re young we can still prevent it yeah do you still have all that feeling that as a child you can do a lot yeah do you feel as a child do you feel privileged or do you think next time if if the ufo’s coming please go to another school no privilege thank you you feel privileged that you saw them i’d love them to imagine you could see them again but only this time closely what do you want to say anything i want to know when are we going to be on tv [Laughter] all right we sent you the cassettes