1994 Rua Zimbabwe

A mid-a-rache of UFO reports from all over Africa, one story stood out.

62 children at an elite private school reported a craft landed in the adjacent field

and a silvery astronaut communicated a telepathic message of environmentalism.

Today, it's often cited as the most compelling proof of alien visitation

but did what actually took place differ from the way the story is remembered today.

That's coming up next UnSkeptoid.

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The 1994 Rua Zimbabwe Alien Encounter.

It's one of those stories that defies all rational explanation.

62 children at a school in rural Africa all witnessed a craft come down out of the sky

and land just outside their school yard and a strange being stepped out

and communicated a telepathic message to all of them that they need to take better care of planet Earth.

The event was broadly documented not only by responsible news organizations such as the BBC

but also by a respected academic who interviewed the children

and reported that they all told exactly the same story.

Surely 62 children wouldn't all tell the same lie

and surely rural Africans would have no pop culture references

from which to fabricate a flying saucer story.

While today's skeptical academics dismissed the episode as a case of mass hysteria

the UFO community embraces the Rua Zimbabwe Encounter of 1994

as an unassailable body of evidence that we were visited by extraterrestrial beings.

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