The 1994 Ariel UFO/Humanoid encounter
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Two of the regulars here – Dominick and Bryan Daum – left
comments in my posting about John Greenewald Jr.’s Black Vault show with
Randall Nickerson who’s made a scintillating documentary about the 1994 Ariel
School (in Zimbabwe) UFO encounter that many consider a real (actual) episode
of extraterrestrial contact with humans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_School_UFO_incident
Jim Fox has also provided a slice of the incident in his recent UFO documentary, The Phenomenon.
And noted (now deceased) Harvard psychiatrist, John Mack, visited the area and interviewed the school children who engaged with beings that emerged from the UFOs that allegedly landed near their school ground.
And others have poured over the event, thinking, mostly, that what the school children said they saw, they really did see. No one was confabulating a tale.
And explanation has mostly fallen into the current idea that alien/extraterrestrial visitors dropped in upon the school children at Ariel in 1994.
I tended to agree, even though I’m no fan of the UFO/ET hypothe- sis as you know.
And now Dominick and Bryan Daum suggest that the event was staged either by the military or college/high school students as a kind of prank:
“What other explanation (other than ET) could there be for this episode? Several explanations were discarded (mass hallucinations; falling space debris, etc.) but what was never mentioned was something rather obvious, something that has come up in similar episodes: that the encounter was a carefully staged (military, intelligence) event…” [Dominick]
"Besides the military staging, and more likely to me, would be by some crafty high school or college kids. Back to Occam -and little kids would be easy.” [Daum]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_School_UFO_incident
Jim Fox has also provided a slice of the incident in his recent UFO documentary, The Phenomenon.
And noted (now deceased) Harvard psychiatrist, John Mack, visited the area and interviewed the school children who engaged with beings that emerged from the UFOs that allegedly landed near their school ground.
And others have poured over the event, thinking, mostly, that what the school children said they saw, they really did see. No one was confabulating a tale.
And explanation has mostly fallen into the current idea that alien/extraterrestrial visitors dropped in upon the school children at Ariel in 1994.
I tended to agree, even though I’m no fan of the UFO/ET hypothe- sis as you know.
And now Dominick and Bryan Daum suggest that the event was staged either by the military or college/high school students as a kind of prank:
“What other explanation (other than ET) could there be for this episode? Several explanations were discarded (mass hallucinations; falling space debris, etc.) but what was never mentioned was something rather obvious, something that has come up in similar episodes: that the encounter was a carefully staged (military, intelligence) event…” [Dominick]
"Besides the military staging, and more likely to me, would be by some crafty high school or college kids. Back to Occam -and little kids would be easy.” [Daum]
The idea of a staged event has grit or muscle as I see it, now. Nick Redfern should weigh in as he has lots of knowledge of MK Ultra mischief of a like kind.
Maybe the episode needs more scrutiny as the Dominick/Bryan Daum speculation weighs heavily as a possibility, does it not?
(Image atop from the BBC)
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posted by RRRGroup at
Saturday, June 11, 2022
9 Comments:
Why not swamp gas?
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Gianfranco, at Sunday, June 12, 2022
I hadn't considered this idea until the guys here brought it up, but my first thought afterward was the (Bragalia?) theory about Socorro being a student-staged event as well. Other than Socorro, I don't discard the staging idea at all. I'm sure Nick Redfern would point out Rendlesham and maybe Flatwoods as two such possible events. Deception has always been one of the hallmarks of the huge government(s) program to discredit the phenomenon from post-WWII-on. And there are plenty of hoaxsters out in the world that would get their kicks in such a way. It would explain some, but not all, of these events.
Does anyone want to tie in the Australian Westall student encounter with Ariel (despite the 28-year gap)?
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Ron, at Sunday, June 12, 2022
A look at Westall. Ron, in a comparative way might prove interesting in a number of ways.
You've seen, I bet. the Facebook responses to the Dom/Daum suggestion. FBers like the ET explanation as does the film-maker Nickerson.
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RRRGroup, at Sunday, June 12, 2022
There's no good evidence this *wasn't* a couple of youths or guys in a shiny vehicle fooling around to scare the kids. The initial reports were rather mundane: a glinting disc in the trees, two normal sized men running around briefly.
All the weird stuff only came up later - that the beings were small, had big heads, approached the children very close, floated, moved in slow motion, disappeared and appeared as they ran around, and of course transmitted telepathic messages (a narrative Dr Mack elicited that had not come up until he spoke to the kids 2.5 months later).
If it was a prank, or even just an opportunistic couple of guys larking about not realizing the chaos they were creating, it seems likely the perpetrators weren't supposed to be where they were (private land) so had no reason to own up to it.
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Charlie Wiser, at Sunday, June 12, 2022
Thanks Charlie....
A nice, sensible exposition.
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RRRGroup, at Sunday, June 12, 2022
in reading one of the Wiki links, this line really caught my attention: "Dr Mack was struck and killed by a car after delivering a lecture on UFOs and the Ariel sightings at a London university." So he had just finished talking about Ariel and was killed that evening (in 2004). I'd love to see if there's a transcript of that lecture somewhere, I wonder what his views were 10 years later. In 1994 he was facing a true-blue, CE event with detailed descriptions of physical creatures ; aligning that with a strictly psychological explanation must have been tough. Yet just before his death he said “It is as if the agent or intelligence here at work ..." so clearly he did not think this event or any abduction was a 'real' ET event, but the work of an intelligence "hoaxing" us. Could not fit any better into a Simulation explanation (with the Algorithm able to produce these 'actual' events, albeit for extremely brief periods, and *never* able to be provable). Maybe I'll play some Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in honor of Mack tonight :)
(regarding Westall, that one really does seem to have a prosaic explanation with the radiation balloon research going on. Totally explains the 'suits' showing up and telling people not to talk about it. Having the USA doing experiments involving radiation, even just detection, would not have had good 'optics' in Australia, then or now)
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jamesrav, at Friday, June 17, 2022
Yep, James, that loss of Dr. Mack is profound.
I'll see if I can dig up that lecture. I had contact, once, with his personal assistant.
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RRRGroup, at Friday, June 17, 2022
That would be amazing. Another link indicated there was an organization devoted to his work, I will see if I can find a contact somewhere. Unfortunately it seemed to have faded away for financial reasons, but they must have kept his lectures somewhere. It's maddening to read that his Harvard boss said 'we'd have had no trouble if you said the abduction phenomena was simply another psychological condition' rather than perhaps an insight into a new reality. Another psych condition, to be treated with drugs and high cost visits. Sad but expected.
If I read correctly, Mack was *in* Africa for other reasons when the Ariel encounter took place. How incredibly coincidental.
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jamesrav, at Friday, June 17, 2022
I wrote to the John Mack Institute from their website (asking for transcripts of the Ariel children) and got a response from the "Archivist & Consultant" including cell phone.
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Charlie Wiser, at Saturday, June 18, 2022
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