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 ../../sources/ariel-school-ufo-1994.

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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