For people who don't know what he's talking about, he's getting major details wrong.
Back in 1994, a Soviet rocket (Zenit-2 rocket from the Cosmos 2290 satellite launch) reentered the atmosphere above Zimbabwe, causing a massive fireball through the sky that many people reported as a UFO. UFO sightings were on the Zimbabwe news all week as a result, and it was the talk of the country.
Two days later, some elementary school kids at a rich, mostly white private school were playing outside when they saw something unusual on the ground about 250 yards away (more than two football fields away). The kids had admittedly just been talking about UFOs in class. Though there were 250 students on the playground, we only have accounts of 31 students seeing something - the rest of the students saw nothing, and none of the adults on the playground saw anything. (UFO enthusiasts have claimed 62 students saw something, but there's no evidence for this).
Most of the students described what they saw as a "black man" or a "black man with long hair", and many mentioned "large eyes". They described the vehicle as being metal and shiny and just sitting there, with almost none of the students reporting it flying at any point.
These are some of the exact descriptions and pictures the students made a couple days after their sighting. Remember, they were about 750 feet away from whatever they saw:
Immediately after hearing about the sightings, some UFO enthusiasts got interested and rushed to see the kids. They broke all the rules of investigative interviews - interviewing the kids together, letting them influence each other's stories, feeding them ideas, asking leading questions, etc. After two months a famous UFO psychologist/hypnotist got involved and really screwed things up, completely changing the kids' stories to fit his own ideas about environmentalism and stuff. Under all that pressure and manipulation from adult UFO enthusiasts, the children changed their stories to claim they had seen little gray men in mulitiple crafts that flew in and out, and the little gray men communicated telepathically with them to spread a pro-environment message about the need to say the Earth.
In the original accounts and drawings the kids had made before being manipulated, NONE of them had said a thing about telepathic communication or environmental message, only 1-2 had mentioned multiple crafts or claimed that anything was flying around, and the vast majority had said nothing about little gray beings. And their descriptions of the craft varied wildly - some of them drew the sort of flying saucer popular on TV reruns at the time (though different kids drew flying saucers from completely different shows), but other kids drew things that looked a lot more like a van, and still more kids said they had not seen any vehicle at all, just a black man with long hair.
So, a bunch of elementary school kids juiced up by a national UFO craze reported seeing a couple black men with long hair standing next to a shiny object, and began telling each other than they were seeing the aliens everyone had been talking about. Since the men were 750 feet away and standing in long grass, it's likely that their features and size were difficult for the kids to estimate, and none of them could see the wheels on the van as they were covered by the long grass.
And...surprise suprise....there just happens to have been a rastafarian concert by Thomas Mapfumo that VERY SAME WEEK, frequented by Mapfumo and his rasta fans who just happen to wear long hair and sunglasses.
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Which one does a better job of matching what most of the kids described and saw? Look at many of their drawings, and you tell me:
And why do so many of the drawings look suspiciously like the sort of passenger vans the rastas traveled in? The kids even claimed that the black men "stood on top" of their spaceship...Do y'all really think that aliens tend to stand on top of spaceships to have a look around, or is that more a thing people in the bush do on their vans?
If you look at the ORIGINAL STORIES the kids told a couple days after their sighting (even those were influenced by the 1 UFO enthusiast who had rushed in to see them), then it's a no-brainer. I ignore the changed stories they told months and years later after they had been warped by outside people with an agenda, as any normal investigator would.
