Over two decades ago (Sept 14th, 1994) 62 students from a remote elementary school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe saw something very strange. A silver object descended from the sky and onto their school-yard. Many kids ran away while others “stood transfixed at the strange events unfolding before their eyes.”
All the children (ages 5-12) were asked to draw what they saw, as they were the only witnessess of what happened. Of all the drawings, 22 of them were very clear and very similar to each other. They all depicted a “flying saucer” and a strange humanoid creature. It’s also important to note that many of these kids did not have media access.
Cynthia Hind, a South African MUFON field investigator was called and asked to help out in this case. She interviewed all the kids and asked them all questions.
“The children vary in cultures: there are black, white, coloured and Asian children. One little girl said to me, ‘I swear by every hair on my head and the whole Bible that I am telling the truth.’ I could see the pleasure on her face when I told her that I believed her. The smaller children from 5-7 years were very frightened at the time and ran shouting ‘Help me, help me.’ When the older children asked why they were saying this, the reply was, ‘He is coming to eat us.’ I should think this applied more to the black African children who have legends of _tokoloshies_ eating children.”
This case remains unexplained for the most part. Some skeptics have brushed it off as mass-hysteria while other skeptics believe it to be a school yard prank. All the kids that were interviewed had similar stories and descriptions of what transpired.
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“I know this is horrible,” del Toro continues. “You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO. It was horribly designed. I was with a friend. We bought a six-pack. We didn’t consume it, and there was a place called Cerro del Cuatro, “Mountain of the Four,” on the periphery of Guadalajara. We said, ‘Let’s go to the highway.’ We sit down to watch the stars and have the beer and talk. We were the only guys by the freeway. And we saw a light on the horizon going super-fast, not linear. And I said, ‘Honk and flash the lights.’ And we started honking.”
The UFO, says del Toro, “Went from 1,000 meters away [to much closer] in less than a second — and it was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights [blinking]. It’s so sad: I wish I could reveal they’re not what you think they are. They are what you think they are. And the fear we felt was so primal. I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us, and then I looked back and it was gone.”
The Betz family lived on a large 88-Acre property near Jacksonville Florida. In the early 1970s their property was ravaged by a fire and during its inspection, they came across this perfect silver sphere which was 8 inches in diameter.
The Betz family thought it might be a new kind of government probe or satellite and decided to take the artifact home with them. They didn’t think much of it until it started behaving in odd ways.
The first thing they observed in regards to the sphere was that it resonated with a frequency in response to their son strumming his guitar and that terrified their dog. When they rolled the sphere it would stop, turn around and come back towards the person who pushed it. The family claimed that it could also climb up a slanted table. Needless to say, a media frenzy ensued. Articles about the sphere appeared in publications like the New York Times and London Daily.
Even stranger things started happening at the Betz residence. Doors would open and slam shut on their own, strange music would play randomly, and their dog started staying outside because it was too afraid to come near the sphere. The family handed the sphere over to the Navy once things became unbearable for them.
After running a battery of tests, the Navy determined that the ball was nothing but an ordinary stainless steel ball which was probably part of an art project that belonged to a sculptor known as James Durling-Jones.
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