Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings

Witness History

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It was one of the most reported UFO sightings in recent history. Local people in the quiet rural town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe reported a 'strange craft' and lights in the sky. Around 60 children said they'd seen a 'space ship' and 'aliens' in bush land near their school playground in September 1994. The children drew pictures of what they'd seen, and despite differences in quality, the details and proportions were very similar. A BBC TV crew were among the first on the scene. Rebecca Kesby looks back through the archive of 'the Ruwa School incident'.

(Photo: child's impression of Zimbabwe 1994 UFO)

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
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0:29.2	Hello and
0:35.0	welcome to this witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me Rebecca
0:39.5	Kesby and today we're heading for Ruwa in rural Zimbabwe, the year is 1994.
0:46.0	And it's an extraordinary story, possibly from another world,
0:51.0	a mass sighting of an unidentified flying object or
0:54.8	UFO, and even more unnerving the eyewitnesses who say they saw,
0:59.7	well, aliens.
1:01.7	A BBC team was in the area in September 94 and captured statements from
1:06.7	the scene which we revisit today.
1:09.7	Newsbeat. There's been a UFO alert across southern Africa. A large brightly colored object
1:18.8	was seen traveling very fast above Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa. Several planes saw it, the
1:26.4	experts are baffled.
1:29.7	Okay this is a continuation of
1:33.4	UFO possible UFO story.
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