Some of these same kids were re-interviewed as adults and their story stayed the same
But their story WASN'T the same as the story they told at first, before the UFOologists coached them.
Yes, the story they were coached to believe months after the sighting is the same story they told in adulthood. Why wouldn't that be true? Still doesn't change the fact that most of them originally told a completely different story that only became the "gray aliens in UFOs flying around and communicating telepathically about saving the environment" story much much later.
It's not like I'm making up new ideas about eyewitness accounts. These are all things criminal investigators have known for decades.
1) Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable.
2) Kids are even more unreliable than adults.
3) Eyewitness accounts directly after the event are far more valid than stories told much later.
4) You should NEVER allow eyewitnesses to collude and tell each other their stories, it tends to distort the events and make them further from the truth, not closer.
5) You should NEVER allow an outside party to coach the witnesses, especially coaching all of them together, especially when that outside party has a vested interest.
6) Kids are easily manipulated to change their story by outside parties and will honestly believe the new version of events.
Those aren't new ideas, and they aren't unique to UFO stories. Those ideas have BEEN known, whether it's supernatural religious events, child abuse hoaxes, parents coaching their kids against other parents, etc.
Even the teachers saw shyt.
False - not a single teacher reported seeing a single alien or UFO.
And NOBODY came out trying to be famous out of this. They didn’t write no books, they didnt use this for as a career when they got older, they werent trying to get money for coming out with this…
Yes they did.
Cynthia Hind wrote "Ufos over Africa" just a couple years after she started coaching the kids and helped turn Ariel into an international story. She had previously writen "UfOs: African Encounters" and contributed to "Phenomenon: Forty Years of Flying Saucers"
John Mack wrote "Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens" the very same year that he coached the Ariel kids, then wrote "Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters"
The kids are honest, I've never felt they were lying. But kids succumb easily to hype and are easily manipulated. You keep failing to look at the actual people who created the final "story", which differed immensely from the kids' original story.