Ariel School (Ruwa, 1994) — "Encounters" Ariel School UFO incident denier Dallyn Vico interviewed [Ariel Phenomenon]

Source: YouTube, ""Encounters" Ariel School UFO incident denier Dallyn Vico interviewed", Ariel Phenomenon channel — clip from the 'Ariel Phenomenon' production.
URL: https://youtu.be/AQqzhzABfaY (5:52; ~24k views; uploaded 2023-10-11)
Captured: 2026-06-11 via YouTube auto-captions. Auto-caption text is lowercase and unpunctuated.
What this is: A clip in which the filmmakers interview Dallyn Vico, who disputes the children's accounts; posted in response to the Netflix 'Encounters' series. Part of the Ariel School (Ruwa, Zimbabwe, 16 Sep 1994) source set — see ../../sources/ariel-school-ufo-1994.

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My name is Dalan Viko. I was born in
Zimbabwe in 1984. I was witnessed to a
an event that was I can I cannot fully
explain. Um
it was at Aerial Primary School in 1994
uh September.
the lights in the sky, they were really,
really amazing. Um, the fact that they
were moving at very, very high speeds,
like so fast that you couldn't see
them moving. It was like they would
flash and then they would move so fast
and cover a very large distance and then
flash again and then move off again. But
but there wasn't wasn't one color. It
was multiple colors in the sky, but not
at once. So the the the the light would
it would flash red for example and then
it would disappear and then at about 200
m to 500 m it would flash again the
light would flash again in the sky but
the color would be different and then it
would move off again and it would flash
again with a different color. And I have
a friend his name is Brian and
unfortunately he's not here in South
Africa where the interview is being
conducted. Um we were talking about this
prior to the interview um a couple of
weeks ago and basically me and him had
the same story about what we both
witnessed and what we both saw with
these flashing lights in the sky. Um
neither one of us can can explain it.
And where were you on the playground?
You were
I was in the I was on the bottom field
the playground by the grade um grade six
classroom.
And then um we moved up um to the a
bounce area where basically it forms now
it forms the beginning of the new the
new sports fields or the new playgrounds
that they've built since then. Um
yeah
although we do not fully understand what
happened there was something definite
definite definite that that that did
occur there that was out of the
ordinary. It was not
it was not a regular day at school. It
was something very very um
mind-blowing.
And um you know sometimes people think
might think I'm crazy but uh I did see
something and um
I'm not the only person that has
witnessed these uh so-called um not
beings cuz I don't see any beings but
these so-called phenomena phenomena
events um so you know they say that
there's more grains of sand sorry they
say there's more planets and suns in our
universe than there are grains of sand
on the earth. So with with that theory
in context, the probability of
extraterrestrial life in our universe is
very high. And I believe that there was
something there that I can't explain.
Anything else you'd like to ask?
Yeah. How long do you think that group
was there before you noticed that they
were there? the group that was there
before I noticed that they were there.
Maybe they could have been there for at
least 10 to 15 minutes before I noticed
that they were there. I was I was very
much into my game. And um I only
realized that they were grouping by the
logs when kids from that from that area
had filtered down into the the lower
playground
and they started telling us about what
was going on. I then looked across and
saw those kids there. So I then walked.
So it could have been between 10 and 15
minutes um possibly that there was a
time gap before I went to investigate
myself in that area.
Yeah.
But then again, I'm not 100% sure of
time because as a kid you don't really
have concept of time. Um
so the the beings or the the spaceship
that landed there could have landed and
left. Um and those beings could have
also left. Um, but
I am certain that I did see something in
the sky that I cannot explain. Some
colors, some lights, it could have been
government testing. It could have been a
lot of different things, but there was
definitely something there that I cannot
explain. Even to this day, um, I'm now
23 years old, turning 24 in September.
Um, and
at my age, I still cannot fathom or
explain what happened on that day.
And um, I would love to find the answers
one day to to what really happened and
what really went on.
I remember as well that a lot of the
kids were saying that on their way to
school their their radio frequencies or
their the radio stations that they
normally used to tune in to listen to
the radio on the way to school was not
working. And a lot of the cars that were
approaching the area school during the
thing.