I imagine Dr.
@Rhakim going to interview those 30-60 African school children that claimed they saw and made contact with aliens like:
Let's clarify again that most of the kids were White and well-off, because this whole story has repeatedly been falsely painted as if they were some innocent rural Black Africans who knew nothing of alien pop culture, and not the reality that they were mostly rich white kids in 1994 in one of Africa's modern megacities and had been surrounded by alien hype all week.
And only 32 out of 250 kids who were out in the playground have ever been named/interviewed as having seen anything unusual, even though all 250 kids were out there. Numerous children and all the adults said they saw no aliens anywhere.
Dr. Rhakim: So you said you saw what again
Kids: Aliens, sir…
Dr. Rhakim: What did they look like.. draw them for me
*Kids drawing*
*Dr. Rhakim see’s one kids draw some Aliens with hair*
Not one kid, a huge proportion of them. And this is crazy cause they didn't even draw the pictures until AFTER the first UFOologist had already coached them, yet many of them were still drawing dred-headed Black people with sunglasses.
"KAYLEIGH: We saw some people - a white one, a red one, a black one. The black one was sitting on the spaceship."
"DANIEL: Yeah, it almost looked like a real person except it was fairly plump. At first I thought it was just some boy from the compound [labourers’ quarters] playing around, but the hair was - it looked more like our hair, it wasn’t curly. That thing almost looked like a hippie."
"NATHANIEL C: We saw a black man running around."
"CHARITY S: I saw something silver on the ground amongst the trees, and a person in black. And that’s all I saw."
"LUKE N: I didn’t see the spaceship but I saw the little black guy, he looked - he was all black, and it looked like he had long hair."
"EMILY B: I saw the little black men. They had longish hair and it was all black. And they had big black eyes. That’s all I saw."
"LISEL P: And I saw a black man, he was just in black, and he had big eyes. Well I thought twice. I thought it was an alien, and then I thought maybe it was the gardener or someone."
*Dr. Rhakim hears reggea music in the background*
*Dr. Rhakim looks at a newspaper and see’s a reggea concert being held 2 miles away*
Dr. Rhakim: Ahhhh, I understand now. What you kids really saw were rastafarians smoking in the field
Kids: But they were short with pale skin
Actually, no, the majority of the kids who commented on their skin color said they looked like Black people in their initial statements, before the UFOologists came. I'm glad you at least acknowledged that there was a rastafarian concert in the close vicinity that week. Not only does the long haired black men with a van, and wearing sunglasses, perfectly fit rasta fans, but rich white kids would have been unfamiliar with rastas, who were stigmatized in Zimbabwae society at the time. Now, which makes more sense to you?
Option A) The kids, who had been hyped all week by a previous false UFO sighting (it was a rocket re-entering the atmosphere), saw some short pale-skinned aliens with huge bald heads, and somehow mistook them for Black people with long black dreds. They saw a craft flying in, but forgot that it flew and claimed it was just sitting there. They communicated telepathically with the aliens and got a message of world peace and environmentalism, but then totally forgot about that and said they aliens hadn't communicated with them at all. And it was only after the UFOologists spent the next two months convincing them that they had seen something amazing, that all the true memories of the sighting came flooding back and this silly mistaken Black shyt went away so they could talk about stereotypical bald-headed Grays flying in on multiple ships and talking about environmentalism (which just happened to be the favorite topic of John Mack, the 2nd UFOologist to come in and talk to them).
Option B) The kids, hyped all week by UFO talk and a false sighting, saw unfamiliar Black rastas with shades standing next to a sun-glared van in the grass nearly 800 feet away, and in their excitement maybe 6-7 of them thought they were getting their own UFO sighting and began hyping up the others to agree with them. Most of the students described the Black people and van fairly accurately at first, and accurately said the "UFO" was just sitting there and there was only one of them with one of the hippies standing on top of it, but a few of them copied the descriptions/images they had gotten about aliens and UFOs off of TV. Then, when the UFOologists came in excitement and starting building up the alien narrative, more and more kids began picking up the stories where the UFOologists wanted to hear, until they really believed they had seen that too.
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