1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:23,148 --> 00:00:24,233 You’re tuned to the Zimbabwe 4 00:00:24,233 --> 00:00:26,402 Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1. 5 00:00:26,402 --> 00:00:28,320 And here is a special announcement. 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,407 If anyone has video footage of the meteorite showers–or 7 00:00:31,615 --> 00:00:33,535 whatever they were–please get in touch with 8 00:00:33,535 --> 00:00:37,122 Tim Leach of BBC Television very urgently. 9 00:00:37,288 --> 00:00:40,040 BBC Television News. 10 00:00:41,167 --> 00:00:43,168 I was not so frightened in the war zones 11 00:00:43,168 --> 00:00:48,467 of Angola or Rwanda as I was when this story hit. 12 00:00:49,258 --> 00:00:51,845 Hundreds of people today phoned the ZBC 13 00:00:51,887 --> 00:00:55,807 and BBC correspondent in Harare saying they sighted 14 00:00:55,807 --> 00:00:59,477 an unidentified flying object last night. 15 00:00:59,477 --> 00:01:02,772 These things were flying in a pattern 16 00:01:03,355 --> 00:01:05,608 and there was no sound. 17 00:01:05,650 --> 00:01:08,402 No wings, no nothing. Shiny oval thing. 18 00:01:08,987 --> 00:01:10,447 Hello? 19 00:01:10,447 --> 00:01:13,032 Hello, my name’s Tim Leach from BBC Television News. 20 00:01:13,032 --> 00:01:16,118 I understand that you, you had some strange experience. 21 00:01:16,118 --> 00:01:17,537 Yes, that’s right. 22 00:01:17,578 --> 00:01:19,747 It was a bright, radiant light. 23 00:01:19,747 --> 00:01:21,207 I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. 24 00:01:21,207 --> 00:01:23,668 It was the absence of noise I didn’t like. 25 00:01:23,668 --> 00:01:26,378 There has been much excitement after hundreds of people 26 00:01:26,378 --> 00:01:29,548 have reported seeing a mysterious bright object. 27 00:01:29,548 --> 00:01:32,343 We suddenly looked up and we saw this thing 28 00:01:32,343 --> 00:01:34,262 coming over the top of the hill. 29 00:01:34,262 --> 00:01:36,722 As it sort of came abreast of us, 30 00:01:36,722 --> 00:01:41,060 it suddenly changed from this glow to, 31 00:01:41,060 --> 00:01:43,980 to let’s say two big red-orange balls. 32 00:01:43,980 --> 00:01:46,273 No sound. 33 00:01:46,315 --> 00:01:47,608 Look. 34 00:01:47,608 --> 00:01:50,110 It’s going. Is that what a meteorite does? 35 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:52,697 No way. No way. It’s incredible. 36 00:01:53,447 --> 00:01:56,158 Eyewitnesses say it had a bright light at the front 37 00:01:56,158 --> 00:01:57,952 and flew at great speed. 38 00:01:57,952 --> 00:02:01,705 The object was also seen by two international airline pilots 39 00:02:01,705 --> 00:02:05,125 who reported it to air traffic control at Johannesburg Airport. 40 00:02:05,125 --> 00:02:07,045 There were three of us that saw it, 41 00:02:07,045 --> 00:02:08,755 myself, the copilot, and the pilot 42 00:02:08,838 --> 00:02:10,005 in another aircraft. 43 00:02:10,005 --> 00:02:12,092 South Africa’s top meteorologist says 44 00:02:12,092 --> 00:02:14,760 there’s no rational explanation for the bright light 45 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,013 and it could be one of the most widely reported 46 00:02:17,013 --> 00:02:19,557 unidentified flying objects in recent time. 47 00:02:20,725 --> 00:02:23,645 None of it made sense. So I phoned the BBC in London 48 00:02:23,645 --> 00:02:25,397 and I said,"What is this meteorite shower?" 49 00:02:25,397 --> 00:02:26,730 And they said, "No, no, no, no, no, 50 00:02:26,730 --> 00:02:30,277 it’s got not nothing to do with, with Africa or Zimbabwe. 51 00:02:30,277 --> 00:02:32,862 The meteorites come down in an arc; 52 00:02:32,862 --> 00:02:35,198 they don’t fly parallel to the earth." 53 00:02:35,198 --> 00:02:36,615 "What about the, 54 00:02:36,615 --> 00:02:39,160 the, the, this Russian debris that’s coming down?" 55 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:44,332 "No. That doesn’t work either. Um, sorry." Well, what is this? 56 00:02:45,542 --> 00:02:48,377 Viewers with more information can either contact 57 00:02:48,377 --> 00:02:51,505 the ZBC or BBC in Harare. 58 00:02:51,505 --> 00:02:53,465 For at least three or four days, 59 00:02:53,465 --> 00:02:56,887 people from all over Zimbabwe were phoning us at the BBC 60 00:02:56,887 --> 00:02:59,180 to say, "We’ve seen something weird." 61 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,057 It was a helicopter or a what? No, no. 62 00:03:01,057 --> 00:03:05,143 It was just a big, round ball. The bottom was flat, 63 00:03:05,185 --> 00:03:09,023 but it was round like the top of my wall by my house. 64 00:03:09,023 --> 00:03:11,442 And then I got this call from Ariel School, Ruwa, 65 00:03:12,443 --> 00:03:15,447 that the children had seen this UFO landing 66 00:03:15,447 --> 00:03:19,700 and these funny men in, in body-clinging suits, 67 00:03:20,327 --> 00:03:22,287 black suits. Uh, weird. 68 00:03:25,457 --> 00:03:28,877 I went roaring out there in the car with my sound man. 69 00:03:42,973 --> 00:03:44,642 Ariel School, 70 00:03:44,808 --> 00:03:49,647 19th September ’94, 12:12 local time. 71 00:04:02,077 --> 00:04:04,828 Could you tell me what you saw on, on Friday? 72 00:04:04,828 --> 00:04:07,707 Well, it’s, it was just glinting in the trees 73 00:04:08,248 --> 00:04:10,918 and this, like, there was a man and he walked towards us 74 00:04:10,918 --> 00:04:12,170 and he walked back again. 75 00:04:12,212 --> 00:04:14,088 And what did he look like? 76 00:04:14,672 --> 00:04:17,425 His, his face was like this and his eyes were down here. 77 00:04:19,052 --> 00:04:20,970 Like, what, further down his face? 78 00:04:20,970 --> 00:04:22,388 Yeah. Much further down than us, 79 00:04:22,388 --> 00:04:24,265 because our eyes are here and his are down. 80 00:04:24,265 --> 00:04:26,183 You don’t think it was somebody in fancy dress 81 00:04:26,183 --> 00:04:28,102 doing a prank or something? - No. 82 00:04:28,102 --> 00:04:30,062 And how tall about? 83 00:04:30,062 --> 00:04:32,898 About say there. Sitting on the spaceship. 84 00:04:32,898 --> 00:04:34,275 How did you know it was a spaceship? 85 00:04:34,275 --> 00:04:35,735 It wasn’t a helicopter or something like that? 86 00:04:35,735 --> 00:04:36,943 No. 87 00:04:36,943 --> 00:04:38,237 Well, it looked like it was like, 88 00:04:38,237 --> 00:04:40,573 like a disc, like a round... 89 00:04:40,573 --> 00:04:43,200 And whereabouts was it? It was in the trees. 90 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,578 In the trees over there, between the big pole. 91 00:04:47,413 --> 00:04:49,332 And did you girls see that as well? 92 00:04:49,332 --> 00:04:51,250 Yes. Yes. 93 00:04:52,002 --> 00:04:54,920 We asked them to draw pictures of what they saw on Friday 94 00:04:55,547 --> 00:04:57,257 and after looking at those, 95 00:04:57,257 --> 00:04:59,508 I definitely feel that they did see something. 96 00:05:01,177 --> 00:05:02,762 What do you think that was? 97 00:05:04,430 --> 00:05:08,433 I agree that it could be something that we, um, 98 00:05:08,433 --> 00:05:10,018 are not common with. 99 00:05:11,228 --> 00:05:13,313 But to actually say that it was a UFO, 100 00:05:13,982 --> 00:05:16,733 I would be, uh, reluctant to make a decision like that. 101 00:05:17,277 --> 00:05:19,237 All the other journalists in Harare 102 00:05:19,237 --> 00:05:20,655 were not taking this seriously. 103 00:05:20,655 --> 00:05:22,823 But I took it seriously because this story 104 00:05:22,823 --> 00:05:24,867 got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and... 105 00:05:24,867 --> 00:05:27,203 I need to know what was, what was going on. 106 00:05:27,203 --> 00:05:28,578 Who do I talk to? 107 00:05:28,578 --> 00:05:30,873 And then I spoke to some contacts 108 00:05:30,873 --> 00:05:32,792 and they put me in touch with Cynthia Hind, 109 00:05:32,792 --> 00:05:36,045 the person for UFOs in Zimbabwe. 110 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,255 That Cynthia Hind’s coming out 111 00:05:38,255 --> 00:05:40,508 and I believe she bringing a Geiger counter. 112 00:05:40,508 --> 00:05:42,718 She did mention it on the telephone. 113 00:05:42,718 --> 00:05:45,053 I think we’ll wait until she comes and see what happens then. 114 00:05:46,555 --> 00:05:48,348 Just come and sit on these chairs along here. 115 00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:49,892 All right, these are the grade sevens, 116 00:05:49,892 --> 00:05:51,518 the oldest children here at the school 117 00:05:51,518 --> 00:05:54,188 who say they saw something. 118 00:05:54,188 --> 00:05:57,067 Did you all see something? Yes. 119 00:05:57,733 --> 00:05:59,068 What’s your name? 120 00:05:59,068 --> 00:06:03,740 I, I, I’m Daniel Mandy and, and I saw this, 121 00:06:04,573 --> 00:06:07,618 this silver thing in, in amongst this clump of, 122 00:06:07,618 --> 00:06:11,372 of trees with this one thing sitting on, on, on the side and, 123 00:06:11,372 --> 00:06:13,875 and another thing sort of like running up 124 00:06:13,875 --> 00:06:15,835 and down the, the top. 125 00:06:15,835 --> 00:06:17,545 It had a, a long top 126 00:06:17,545 --> 00:06:20,130 and it then it was flat like that along the sides. 127 00:06:20,130 --> 00:06:21,798 What was around the sides? 128 00:06:21,798 --> 00:06:25,845 Just a, um, sort of like a platform coming down the side. 129 00:06:25,845 --> 00:06:28,097 Platform. Did you see anything else? 130 00:06:28,097 --> 00:06:32,185 Yes. We saw a black man running around. Just... 131 00:06:32,227 --> 00:06:34,312 A little man or what? 132 00:06:34,312 --> 00:06:36,647 From where we looked, he was about this small, 133 00:06:36,647 --> 00:06:40,693 but we were quite a way away. So he was about our-size. 134 00:06:40,693 --> 00:06:41,902 What did you see? 135 00:06:41,943 --> 00:06:45,322 I saw something silver on the ground amongst the trees 136 00:06:46,157 --> 00:06:50,327 and a person in black. And that’s all I saw. 137 00:06:51,495 --> 00:06:53,915 You saw a person alongside the silver thing? 138 00:06:53,915 --> 00:06:55,207 Yes. 139 00:06:55,207 --> 00:06:57,752 Have you heard about UFOs before this? 140 00:06:57,752 --> 00:06:59,045 No. 141 00:06:59,045 --> 00:07:00,463 You didn’t know anything about it? 142 00:07:00,463 --> 00:07:02,340 So it was something quite new to you? 143 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:03,715 - Yes. - Were you afraid? 144 00:07:03,715 --> 00:07:05,092 Yes. 145 00:07:05,092 --> 00:07:06,968 Nobody should panic. We don’t know what it is... 146 00:07:06,968 --> 00:07:08,178 No, not at all. 147 00:07:08,178 --> 00:07:10,138 ...and it could be just some... 148 00:07:10,765 --> 00:07:15,018 There was Russian satellite went up on the 27th of August 149 00:07:15,018 --> 00:07:17,438 and it’s possibility something came down. 150 00:07:17,438 --> 00:07:20,733 But it would not account for the figure you saw. 151 00:07:26,197 --> 00:07:29,075 But I think for moment, you should keep everybody away 152 00:07:29,867 --> 00:07:33,037 until we’ve had some analysis, you know, of what’s going on. 153 00:07:33,037 --> 00:07:36,207 It was in between the gap of this one building, 154 00:07:36,207 --> 00:07:37,792 behind this pile of dirt. 155 00:07:37,792 --> 00:07:39,918 Yes, I can see that. 156 00:07:42,838 --> 00:07:44,590 Where did they think it was? 157 00:07:44,590 --> 00:07:47,343 They, they told it was in between these two poles here. 158 00:07:48,177 --> 00:07:50,262 In between these two poles? Yeah. 159 00:07:50,262 --> 00:07:52,348 Gunther, can you try the Geiger first? 160 00:07:52,390 --> 00:07:54,433 Yeah, OK. Do you want me to hold it? 161 00:07:54,433 --> 00:07:56,102 What equipment have you brought with you? 162 00:07:56,102 --> 00:07:59,688 Well, Gunther is a highly technical chap 163 00:07:59,688 --> 00:08:02,900 and because it’s difficult and very expensive in this country, 164 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:05,653 he’s made he’s made his own Geiger counter. 165 00:08:05,653 --> 00:08:06,862 We’re going to check it out 166 00:08:06,862 --> 00:08:08,990 and see if there’s any radioactivity there. 167 00:08:12,075 --> 00:08:13,995 If there’s really some changes the Geiger would 168 00:08:13,995 --> 00:08:16,622 be going faster. But, um... 169 00:08:17,498 --> 00:08:19,458 So is this just normal background radiation? 170 00:08:19,458 --> 00:08:21,502 Yeah, this is about normal. 171 00:08:21,502 --> 00:08:25,882 Yeah, I was helping Cynthia out more on technical terms. 172 00:08:25,923 --> 00:08:28,175 So Cynthia found me quite useful 173 00:08:28,175 --> 00:08:31,387 in maybe explaining away certain phenomena. 174 00:08:31,387 --> 00:08:34,140 Maybe it was a certain time of the year 175 00:08:34,140 --> 00:08:36,142 where certain meteorologic events occurred, 176 00:08:36,142 --> 00:08:41,647 like the Leonid meteor shower or the Perseid meteor shower. 177 00:08:41,647 --> 00:08:45,483 So we used to try to eliminate all the natural events 178 00:08:45,483 --> 00:08:46,943 that might be happening in the sky 179 00:08:46,943 --> 00:08:49,697 before we thought maybe there might be something more to it. 180 00:08:51,115 --> 00:08:52,783 But how skeptical are you? 181 00:08:53,450 --> 00:08:58,330 Well, I would like to see some evidence. 182 00:08:58,372 --> 00:09:00,457 You don’t think it would be appropriate at the moment to... 183 00:09:00,457 --> 00:09:01,750 No. I haven’t. 184 00:09:01,750 --> 00:09:04,212 But from what I see from some of the children, 185 00:09:04,253 --> 00:09:07,088 I do believe that something happened. 186 00:09:07,088 --> 00:09:09,008 I’m not all that gullible. 187 00:09:09,008 --> 00:09:11,385 But this to me is a very typical case 188 00:09:11,385 --> 00:09:14,847 and I’ve handled several hundreds in southern Africa. 189 00:09:15,222 --> 00:09:17,642 I certainly believe the children. 190 00:09:17,808 --> 00:09:20,687 There’s some extremely interesting pictures 191 00:09:20,687 --> 00:09:22,480 and there’s certainly some of the things that tell me 192 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,648 they couldn’t have known about. Impossible. 193 00:09:30,487 --> 00:09:32,948 I can remember it like it was yesterday. 194 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,620 It was easy to put down, because that’s exactly what I had seen. 195 00:09:38,787 --> 00:09:43,333 So, you know, it’s something that I’ll never, ever forget. 196 00:09:46,212 --> 00:09:49,590 In ’94 I was in grade 2 at the time at Ariel. 197 00:09:49,590 --> 00:09:52,092 My teacher was Mrs. Chipo. 198 00:09:52,552 --> 00:09:56,347 What I can remember was we were playing around in the, 199 00:09:57,180 --> 00:09:58,848 in the playground area. 200 00:09:58,848 --> 00:10:00,852 It was one of those rare occasions when the teachers 201 00:10:00,852 --> 00:10:02,978 were having a staff meeting, so it was quite a long break. 202 00:10:02,978 --> 00:10:06,190 We were happy to have those because there was more playtime. 203 00:10:06,190 --> 00:10:08,150 And there was, like, a flash of light. 204 00:10:08,858 --> 00:10:13,030 And it was bright, bright silver and everything. It shot past. 205 00:10:14,532 --> 00:10:16,617 At the time, I mean, I remember it well. 206 00:10:16,658 --> 00:10:20,747 We were on the field playing our football and a friend of mine, 207 00:10:20,747 --> 00:10:23,748 Vimbai, said, "Hey, Luke, do you see that in the sky? 208 00:10:23,748 --> 00:10:25,333 What is that? What is that?" 209 00:10:25,333 --> 00:10:27,378 So I was looking up and I saw it. 210 00:10:27,378 --> 00:10:30,505 And it was for want of a better word, you know, a UFO. 211 00:10:30,505 --> 00:10:31,965 I wasn’t sure what it was. 212 00:10:31,965 --> 00:10:34,843 But it was a silver object that was in the sky. 213 00:10:34,843 --> 00:10:36,970 And we were both, like, looking at it. 214 00:10:36,970 --> 00:10:40,933 And I only saw it for possibly a few seconds. 215 00:10:42,058 --> 00:10:43,310 And it seemed to, 216 00:10:43,310 --> 00:10:46,063 to move off a bit and then suddenly vanished. 217 00:10:46,730 --> 00:10:49,317 And we were, were both sort of standing there looking up, 218 00:10:49,358 --> 00:10:51,443 saying, you know, "Geez, what was that?" 219 00:10:51,443 --> 00:10:54,155 But didn’t put too much thought to it 220 00:10:54,155 --> 00:10:57,575 and obviously went straight back to playing our football match. 221 00:10:57,575 --> 00:11:01,162 A few minutes later, there’s a whole sort of commotion going on 222 00:11:01,162 --> 00:11:02,830 and there were a whole bunch of kids 223 00:11:02,830 --> 00:11:05,082 down at the bottom of the, the playground. 224 00:11:06,750 --> 00:11:10,503 We were sitting on one of the logs that we always sat on, 225 00:11:10,503 --> 00:11:11,880 eating our lunch, 226 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,802 and I noticed that people were pointing at this one thing, 227 00:11:16,385 --> 00:11:18,303 or something, in the bush. 228 00:11:18,303 --> 00:11:22,307 And I got up to see what was going on 229 00:11:22,307 --> 00:11:24,977 because one person actually started crying. 230 00:11:24,977 --> 00:11:26,312 And, you know, like I said, 231 00:11:26,312 --> 00:11:30,357 because we were the older group on the playground, 232 00:11:30,357 --> 00:11:36,572 we all, people in my year, um, just were kind of concerned 233 00:11:36,572 --> 00:11:38,198 about what was going on with everyone else. 234 00:11:38,198 --> 00:11:40,533 There was a big group of kids all sort of gathered at, 235 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:42,285 right at the bottom of the playing field pointing 236 00:11:42,285 --> 00:11:44,538 and making a noise and shouting and screaming. 237 00:11:44,580 --> 00:11:47,458 And I went up to sort of see what was going on, 238 00:11:47,458 --> 00:11:50,710 try to, you know, um, calm everybody down. 239 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:52,170 You know, and my initial thought 240 00:11:52,170 --> 00:11:53,422 was somebody had hurt themselves or something. 241 00:11:53,838 --> 00:11:57,258 OK. So if I was there. 242 00:11:58,468 --> 00:12:01,388 So, say, a couple of hundred meters up it was right there. 243 00:12:02,055 --> 00:12:04,725 So it seemed to be right on the cross-country course. 244 00:12:05,225 --> 00:12:08,353 I remember seeing two flashing lights. 245 00:12:08,353 --> 00:12:10,272 And I saw, like, a big silver, 246 00:12:11,565 --> 00:12:14,860 like a saucer kind of thing that was hovering. 247 00:12:15,527 --> 00:12:18,988 And then it landed or hovered on a, on a stone. 248 00:12:18,988 --> 00:12:27,413 And I saw two figures come out. Really black, but their face, 249 00:12:27,457 --> 00:12:29,708 you could actually see not much of their face, 250 00:12:29,708 --> 00:12:32,085 but it was really, really white in color. 251 00:12:32,085 --> 00:12:35,088 The skin pigmentation was very–I don’t, 252 00:12:35,088 --> 00:12:36,340 I don’t know how your can... 253 00:12:36,340 --> 00:12:38,717 Pale doesn’t even, it, it looked plastic. 254 00:12:39,343 --> 00:12:41,178 You know? It looked like, uh, 255 00:12:41,178 --> 00:12:44,765 someone who had too much, too much Botox. 256 00:12:44,765 --> 00:12:46,142 Now when I think about it, 257 00:12:46,142 --> 00:12:48,102 I’m like, that’s, that’s exactly what... 258 00:12:48,102 --> 00:12:51,438 At the time I didn’t have a color or word for it. 259 00:12:51,438 --> 00:12:53,523 Um, but that’s exactly what it looked like. 260 00:12:53,523 --> 00:12:59,738 It was very smooth and soft-looking. 261 00:12:59,738 --> 00:13:02,282 It looked like it, you’d slide right off 262 00:13:02,323 --> 00:13:06,703 if you tried to touch him. He had, just, yeah. 263 00:13:06,703 --> 00:13:08,747 I suddenly realized that it, 264 00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:10,875 that’s not, he’s not quite normal. 265 00:13:11,458 --> 00:13:14,712 I didn’t actually know about UFOs and aliens at the time. 266 00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:17,338 So I just thought he was a strange person. 267 00:13:17,965 --> 00:13:21,885 But it was the eyes that, that made him. 268 00:13:23,220 --> 00:13:26,098 So, that kind of shape. I think the eyes were obviously 269 00:13:26,098 --> 00:13:28,642 a lot more fluid, round, shiny, protruded. 270 00:13:29,685 --> 00:13:32,897 Almost like rugby balls or America, 271 00:13:32,897 --> 00:13:34,940 you know, American footballs. 272 00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:36,900 Huge eyes on the, on the side of his face. 273 00:13:37,652 --> 00:13:39,612 And so I looked over and sort of thought 274 00:13:39,653 --> 00:13:41,655 I could see something unusual going on in the bushes as well. 275 00:13:41,655 --> 00:13:43,573 And I was like, yeah, there is. There’s got to be something. 276 00:13:43,573 --> 00:13:44,950 It looks like there’s something there. 277 00:13:44,950 --> 00:13:46,660 And the realization that there was something moving–and 278 00:13:46,660 --> 00:13:49,330 it appeared to be coming towards us as well–that, 279 00:13:49,330 --> 00:13:50,998 I felt scared at that point. 280 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,875 The panic spread. 281 00:13:54,502 --> 00:13:56,170 I was looking for my for my brother and sister 282 00:13:56,170 --> 00:13:58,922 to make sure that they were OK. And when I did have them, 283 00:13:58,922 --> 00:14:00,840 then we continued to look onward. 284 00:14:01,717 --> 00:14:03,885 They just seemed confused. Like, what is going on? 285 00:14:03,885 --> 00:14:06,055 One moment we’re playing, next moment everybody’s looking, 286 00:14:06,055 --> 00:14:08,057 pointing and everybody’s in a panic. 287 00:14:08,557 --> 00:14:10,267 That was a little bit scary. 288 00:14:14,980 --> 00:14:17,858 I just turned twenty eight. 289 00:14:19,443 --> 00:14:23,822 I ended a relationship. I was engaged for six years. 290 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,202 You know, this whole topic definitely weighed 291 00:14:28,202 --> 00:14:30,328 on our relationship. 292 00:14:32,748 --> 00:14:35,542 So I moved in with my folks. 293 00:14:36,502 --> 00:14:38,253 I’m thankful that I’m here right now 294 00:14:38,253 --> 00:14:40,713 and with my family who supports me. 295 00:14:44,552 --> 00:14:49,055 As for future goals, plans, work, I have no idea. 296 00:14:53,143 --> 00:14:56,230 But I feel alone. 297 00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:19,962 "Dear Emily, I hope this finds you well. 298 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:24,007 As you may have seen on our Facebook page, next month 299 00:15:24,007 --> 00:15:27,385 we will be celebrating our 25th year as a school. 300 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,513 I know it’s short notice coming from Canada, 301 00:15:30,722 --> 00:15:33,017 but we’d love to have you join us. 302 00:15:33,183 --> 00:15:34,435 If you can’t make it, 303 00:15:34,477 --> 00:15:37,647 know that you are always welcome to visit your old home. 304 00:15:37,647 --> 00:15:38,855 Love, Judy." 305 00:16:06,133 --> 00:16:08,260 It brings up a lot for me. 306 00:16:10,053 --> 00:16:13,223 It’s a reminder of pain, 307 00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:17,060 of holding something inside. 308 00:16:19,647 --> 00:16:23,067 I don’t want to hold onto those feelings anymore. 309 00:16:45,755 --> 00:16:49,677 We haven’t got all day. This lady and gentlemen 310 00:16:49,677 --> 00:16:52,137 are from South African Broadcasting Corporation. 311 00:16:52,888 --> 00:16:54,807 They’ve come to talk to some of you. 312 00:16:54,848 --> 00:16:56,767 Hi everybody. My name’s Nicki. 313 00:16:56,767 --> 00:16:58,977 OK, and that’s Ivan with the camera. 314 00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:01,438 And we’re going to actually speak to a few of you 315 00:17:01,438 --> 00:17:03,523 who did see something that day 316 00:17:03,523 --> 00:17:06,735 and ask you what happened, what you felt when you saw it 317 00:17:07,652 --> 00:17:08,903 and that sort of thing, you know. 318 00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:10,197 So very, very casual. 319 00:17:10,197 --> 00:17:12,573 You must say exactly what you want to say, OK? 320 00:17:13,117 --> 00:17:14,993 What were you doing on the day? 321 00:17:14,993 --> 00:17:20,832 Well, I was walking and I saw this maroon color in the sky. 322 00:17:21,625 --> 00:17:24,252 And me and my friends were following it. 323 00:17:24,837 --> 00:17:28,298 And then we saw this light in the in the Msasa trees. 324 00:17:28,298 --> 00:17:32,510 Then I saw something shining and somebody sitting on it. 325 00:17:33,220 --> 00:17:35,180 And they were wearing pure black. 326 00:17:35,972 --> 00:17:40,310 We saw this black figure running in a slow motion. 327 00:17:40,852 --> 00:17:42,270 The strange thing was it seemed to be 328 00:17:42,270 --> 00:17:43,938 in very slow motion, 329 00:17:43,938 --> 00:17:45,690 which to us seemed very interesting 330 00:17:45,690 --> 00:17:48,318 because Cynthia had come across this kind of event 331 00:17:48,318 --> 00:17:50,487 in some of our other cases around the world 332 00:17:50,487 --> 00:17:53,698 where she had reports of, you know, alien encounters. 333 00:17:53,698 --> 00:17:55,117 Cynthia, how long 334 00:17:55,117 --> 00:17:57,452 have you been investigating UFO phenomena? 335 00:17:57,452 --> 00:17:59,663 Well, about 17 years. 336 00:17:59,872 --> 00:18:05,460 I’m, I’m the continental coordinator in Africa for MUFON. 337 00:18:05,460 --> 00:18:10,798 MUFON has over 5,000 members, most of whom are scientists. 338 00:18:10,798 --> 00:18:14,470 You interviewed the children. What was your conclusion? 339 00:18:14,470 --> 00:18:15,970 I believe them. 340 00:18:15,970 --> 00:18:19,642 I believe they saw what they said they saw. 341 00:18:19,642 --> 00:18:23,270 I think that perhaps some have been influenced by others 342 00:18:23,270 --> 00:18:26,565 and they’ve added a little bit here and a little bit there, 343 00:18:26,565 --> 00:18:31,445 but basically they put, drew in their drawings many things 344 00:18:31,445 --> 00:18:33,738 that I don’t think that they could know about. 345 00:18:34,322 --> 00:18:36,115 How big was the figure? 346 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:38,410 It was about as big as a grade six. 347 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:40,703 How tall would have said? 348 00:18:41,622 --> 00:18:44,040 Maybe about three and a half feet. 349 00:18:44,082 --> 00:18:47,837 There’s another one, he, he, he was a bit short. 350 00:18:47,837 --> 00:18:51,423 As an investigator I’ve learned that 351 00:18:52,007 --> 00:18:54,383 if they tell exactly the same story, 352 00:18:54,383 --> 00:18:57,012 then there’s corroboration, they’ve got together 353 00:18:57,012 --> 00:18:58,472 and they’re doing it. 354 00:18:58,472 --> 00:19:03,685 But if they tell a similar story but from different viewpoints, 355 00:19:04,227 --> 00:19:05,812 to me, that’s the truth. 356 00:19:06,730 --> 00:19:10,358 We saw two of them, one was standing in front of the ship 357 00:19:10,358 --> 00:19:12,945 and then the other one had, um, long hair. 358 00:19:13,445 --> 00:19:15,322 But the one was standing in front 359 00:19:15,322 --> 00:19:17,115 didn’t have any hair at all. 360 00:19:17,115 --> 00:19:19,200 Show me with your hands how big the eyes were. 361 00:19:19,242 --> 00:19:21,495 They were shaped like something like that. 362 00:19:21,495 --> 00:19:25,082 Big head and big black eyes 363 00:19:25,082 --> 00:19:27,167 and was dressed in a black body suit. 364 00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:30,003 What did you think it was? I don’t know. 365 00:19:30,003 --> 00:19:32,297 I just thought it was some type of alien 366 00:19:32,297 --> 00:19:34,048 from a different planet. 367 00:19:34,717 --> 00:19:38,303 What are they talking about? I had no experience of UFOs 368 00:19:38,303 --> 00:19:41,515 or anything like that apart from seeing Steven Spielberg’s film, 369 00:19:41,515 --> 00:19:44,058 "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" or whatever. 370 00:19:45,185 --> 00:19:47,187 I just thought they're all bonkers! 371 00:19:48,147 --> 00:19:51,567 I was just a hard-assed journalist, skeptical as, 372 00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:55,987 as everybody would be! What is this? I want to know. 373 00:19:55,987 --> 00:19:59,575 I mean, the BBC want to know. What is going on here? 374 00:20:10,627 --> 00:20:12,045 There’s a truth behind, you know, 375 00:20:12,045 --> 00:20:13,880 your environment shaping who you are. 376 00:20:16,215 --> 00:20:20,220 For me, growing up in Africa was normal. It was just home. 377 00:20:23,015 --> 00:20:25,225 You’re growing up in an area 378 00:20:25,350 --> 00:20:27,102 where you need to be aware of your environment. 379 00:20:27,268 --> 00:20:29,980 This is not living in America. 380 00:20:30,938 --> 00:20:33,025 You’re in Africa. 381 00:20:33,025 --> 00:20:34,735 You’re in Zimbabwe. 382 00:20:35,943 --> 00:20:39,197 We didn’t grow up around TV. People like to joke about. 383 00:20:39,197 --> 00:20:40,740 "Oh, did you have running water?" Yes. 384 00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:42,700 That was, that was luxury, actually. 385 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:46,203 That’s something you were lucky to have. 386 00:20:46,955 --> 00:20:51,960 Or electricity, because the places that we went to a lot, 387 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,712 I mean, they’d have nothing. 388 00:20:53,712 --> 00:20:55,588 You live in a mud hut. Thatched roof. 389 00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:59,342 You live every single day to live and hope you can. 390 00:21:01,010 --> 00:21:03,180 Yeah, so it was completely different. 391 00:21:33,877 --> 00:21:36,630 OK, mom, dad. Do you remember this place? 392 00:21:38,132 --> 00:21:39,842 We used to stop here all the time. 393 00:21:42,302 --> 00:21:45,388 This is really... I feel at home. 394 00:21:47,223 --> 00:21:48,725 If you go back to Ariel, 395 00:21:48,725 --> 00:21:51,520 it means I get to go back to the spot where it happened. 396 00:21:52,312 --> 00:21:53,897 I don’t know how I’m going to feel. 397 00:21:54,063 --> 00:21:55,982 I don’t know what it’s going to bring up. 398 00:21:55,982 --> 00:22:00,070 But I feel really blessed to be able to do that in my life. 399 00:22:09,747 --> 00:22:11,247 My family’s religious 400 00:22:11,247 --> 00:22:13,833 and we came to Africa for mission work. 401 00:22:14,835 --> 00:22:16,962 My brother and sister also attended Ariel. 402 00:22:16,962 --> 00:22:19,547 They were very traumatized about the event. 403 00:22:19,547 --> 00:22:22,175 Talking about it in a religious environment 404 00:22:22,175 --> 00:22:24,427 wasn’t something that was allowed to be done. 405 00:22:25,928 --> 00:22:28,515 I was very quickly removed out of the situation, 406 00:22:28,515 --> 00:22:33,353 so it was pack up everything and we flew into Canada. 407 00:22:34,270 --> 00:22:37,690 I didn’t get to have the opportunity of growing up 408 00:22:37,690 --> 00:22:39,358 with the friends in that environment 409 00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:41,110 who had had that occur to them. 410 00:22:57,835 --> 00:23:00,672 I’m looking for to, uh, reconnect again. 411 00:23:01,757 --> 00:23:05,843 I haven’t been back to Ariel for just over 20 years. 412 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,075 Oh, my gosh! 413 00:23:41,128 --> 00:23:48,512 Holy... And the classrooms. 414 00:23:51,890 --> 00:23:53,725 Hi! How are you doing? 415 00:23:53,892 --> 00:23:55,143 Good. How are you? 416 00:23:55,143 --> 00:23:56,393 Good. Emily. 417 00:23:56,393 --> 00:23:57,978 Ms. Bates is right in there. 418 00:23:58,020 --> 00:23:59,647 How are you? How are you? 419 00:23:59,647 --> 00:24:00,898 I’m good. 420 00:24:00,898 --> 00:24:02,108 Yeah. And you? 421 00:24:02,108 --> 00:24:03,902 Good. I’m really glad to be back. 422 00:24:03,902 --> 00:24:05,528 Bit of a shock to come... ...back. 423 00:24:06,153 --> 00:24:08,072 Yeah. Come home, whatever. 424 00:24:08,072 --> 00:24:09,573 Home. Yes, home. 425 00:24:09,573 --> 00:24:10,825 It is! ’Tis. 426 00:24:10,825 --> 00:24:12,077 Home. Always. 427 00:24:12,077 --> 00:24:13,328 Yes. 428 00:24:13,328 --> 00:24:14,537 It’s good to see you. 429 00:24:14,537 --> 00:24:16,372 Thank you. Oh, my goodness. 430 00:24:17,457 --> 00:24:22,170 That’s Rachel. This is Paul, my brother, 431 00:24:22,170 --> 00:24:25,465 who also attended the school. So we’re a family of three here. 432 00:24:25,465 --> 00:24:27,967 So will someone be able to show me around the school? 433 00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:29,427 Victor is going to show you around. 434 00:24:29,427 --> 00:24:30,970 Oh, hi, Victor! Emily. 435 00:24:30,970 --> 00:24:33,723 Nice, nice to meet you. It’s nice to meet you, too. 436 00:24:35,142 --> 00:24:37,227 I’m walking where I used to step. 437 00:24:37,227 --> 00:24:40,105 Yeah. It, it feels incredible. 438 00:24:46,903 --> 00:24:49,405 Today we’ve got a special visitor in our midst. 439 00:24:50,448 --> 00:24:51,908 It’s Emily Trim 440 00:24:51,908 --> 00:24:55,578 and she was here at the Ariel School 21 years ago. 441 00:25:00,292 --> 00:25:02,668 Was Mr. Mackie here when you guys were here? 442 00:25:02,668 --> 00:25:04,753 Yes. Do you remember Mrs. Hwacha? 443 00:25:04,753 --> 00:25:06,338 Yes. Yes. 444 00:25:07,132 --> 00:25:08,800 She was I think my grade three teacher. 445 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,385 Was she? Yes. 446 00:25:11,427 --> 00:25:12,970 Then she came and, 447 00:25:12,970 --> 00:25:15,098 sort of like stalking in the supermarket, in SPAR, 448 00:25:15,265 --> 00:25:18,727 when you were phoning me. And the trolley was full of... 449 00:26:19,453 --> 00:26:20,413 Are you having a good day? 450 00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:21,957 Yes. 451 00:26:21,957 --> 00:26:24,125 Yes? Is it lunchtime right now for you? 452 00:26:24,125 --> 00:26:26,460 Yes. Yes. Wonderful. 453 00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:28,212 There were the boundary logs here. 454 00:26:29,422 --> 00:26:32,633 And that field wasn’t there. Uh, so it was all brush and... 455 00:26:32,633 --> 00:26:34,302 And you were guys went down to the logs? 456 00:26:34,302 --> 00:26:36,805 Well, I was right on the log when it actually happened. 457 00:26:36,805 --> 00:26:38,515 You were there? Yes. I was here. 458 00:26:38,515 --> 00:26:40,225 And you saw them? You are the ones who drew those... 459 00:26:40,267 --> 00:26:41,517 Yes. ...funny pictures. 460 00:26:41,517 --> 00:26:42,768 Yes. Oh, OK. 461 00:26:42,768 --> 00:26:44,020 Yeah. 462 00:26:44,020 --> 00:26:45,688 Nice to meet you. Where are you staying? 463 00:26:45,688 --> 00:26:49,400 With Ms. Bates. OK. OK. OK. 464 00:26:58,660 --> 00:27:00,245 We have the shower down there. 465 00:27:01,412 --> 00:27:05,125 And this is your room here. Everyone’s got a fan. 466 00:27:05,125 --> 00:27:07,085 I don’t have mozzie nets, I’m afraid. 467 00:27:07,085 --> 00:27:08,837 You don’t have what? Mosquito nets. 468 00:27:08,878 --> 00:27:10,463 It’s OK. 469 00:27:32,443 --> 00:27:33,862 And what did your other friends say? 470 00:27:33,903 --> 00:27:35,322 They were scared. 471 00:27:35,322 --> 00:27:38,323 We wanted to tell the teachers but some of us were too shy to. 472 00:27:38,323 --> 00:27:40,660 We, we ran down to the teachers 473 00:27:40,660 --> 00:27:42,328 and we went into the office 474 00:27:42,328 --> 00:27:44,788 and we started telling the teachers. 475 00:27:44,788 --> 00:27:47,125 And then they said maybe there’s nothing. 476 00:27:47,125 --> 00:27:48,543 And how did that make you feel 477 00:27:48,543 --> 00:27:50,628 when they said maybe there’s nothing? 478 00:27:50,628 --> 00:27:53,798 Well, we felt very sad because we did see something. 479 00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:57,385 Cheryl, what was your reaction when Candice and Teagan 480 00:27:57,385 --> 00:27:59,178 told you about the UFOs 481 00:27:59,178 --> 00:28:01,138 and the aliens that they saw on Friday? 482 00:28:01,848 --> 00:28:04,808 Um, I don’t know, really. I found it very hard to believe. 483 00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:06,728 I’ve always taught my children seeing is believing 484 00:28:06,728 --> 00:28:08,480 and unfortunately I didn’t see, 485 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,900 so I don’t know if I believe. We always joke 486 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,152 that the children saw these little green men come out. 487 00:28:14,152 --> 00:28:16,195 And they say, "No, mummy, but we did see." 488 00:28:16,947 --> 00:28:20,575 So I don’t know. I do believe Candace to a certain extent." 489 00:28:20,575 --> 00:28:21,827 What did the man look like? 490 00:28:21,827 --> 00:28:23,495 Why would they make up such a story? 491 00:28:23,495 --> 00:28:26,580 And kids of that age, 6 to 9, 10, 492 00:28:27,248 --> 00:28:29,375 they wouldn’t be able to sustain such a story 493 00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:30,668 for such a long time. 494 00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:31,878 And one of them’s going to crack. 495 00:28:31,878 --> 00:28:33,253 And then it will be, 496 00:28:33,253 --> 00:28:35,005 then it will be unrolling a ball of string, you know, 497 00:28:35,047 --> 00:28:37,883 all the rest of them would, would, um, crack as well. 498 00:28:37,883 --> 00:28:39,802 So would you want to talk about it to friends 499 00:28:39,843 --> 00:28:41,930 or other people you meet in the future when you get older? 500 00:28:41,930 --> 00:28:43,432 Or do you just want to forget about it? 501 00:28:43,432 --> 00:28:44,682 No, I don’t want to forget about it. 502 00:28:44,682 --> 00:28:46,852 I want to keep it in because I know that it was true. 503 00:28:46,852 --> 00:28:49,437 And I want to talk to other people about it. 504 00:28:49,437 --> 00:28:51,022 They were fascinated. 505 00:28:51,605 --> 00:28:53,567 They accepted it in their full stripe. 506 00:28:53,567 --> 00:28:56,235 They knew what they’d seen. They’re not stupid. 507 00:28:57,487 --> 00:29:00,365 Children are so much more open than adults. 508 00:29:00,990 --> 00:29:03,910 I’ve always kept an open mind about the life, the universe, 509 00:29:03,910 --> 00:29:06,788 and everything, God, Buddha, whatever you want to call it. 510 00:29:06,788 --> 00:29:10,625 But this story was something I hadn’t encountered before. 511 00:29:12,127 --> 00:29:14,878 In October of 1983 I went to Zimbabwe 512 00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:16,965 which was going through massacres 513 00:29:16,965 --> 00:29:20,552 and I went all over Africa being a camera man, 514 00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:25,055 doing what’s called "bang bang", which is serious war zone. 515 00:29:25,055 --> 00:29:26,307 I had done a lot. 516 00:29:26,307 --> 00:29:30,145 I’d done Angola, Rwanda, Liberia, Nigeria. 517 00:29:30,145 --> 00:29:32,563 I’d done lots of war zones. 518 00:29:32,563 --> 00:29:35,608 A lot of friends and my crew were killed. 519 00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:37,985 And I survived. That was my job. 520 00:29:39,028 --> 00:29:40,780 But this was a bolt out of the blue. 521 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:43,992 I mean, I wasn’t expecting this because I was, I was a realist. 522 00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:46,535 It was totally out of my remit. 523 00:29:46,577 --> 00:29:50,498 I could handle war zones but I could not handle this UFO thing. 524 00:29:50,498 --> 00:29:52,375 It just didn’t make sense. 525 00:29:53,250 --> 00:29:55,837 And that’s when I had to call in extra help. 526 00:29:56,795 --> 00:29:59,757 Cynthia Hind put me in touch with Dr. John Mack. 527 00:30:00,675 --> 00:30:03,595 And, uh, I got his number at Harvard University. 528 00:30:03,637 --> 00:30:05,053 Tim Leach 529 00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:08,140 from BBC Television News in Harare, Zimbabwe. 530 00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:09,725 Message for Dr. John Mack. 531 00:30:10,518 --> 00:30:14,897 This concerns a UFO sighting over a school 532 00:30:15,648 --> 00:30:19,568 where it hovered, landed, a black man got out. 533 00:30:20,195 --> 00:30:21,863 But of course we’re having difficulty 534 00:30:21,863 --> 00:30:24,615 being taken seriously despite it being the BBC. 535 00:30:24,615 --> 00:30:27,452 Please call me as soon as you can. Thank you. 536 00:30:28,035 --> 00:30:30,538 I said, "Listen, I don’t know what’s going on, 537 00:30:30,538 --> 00:30:34,458 but this is way outside my normal ballgame. 538 00:30:34,458 --> 00:30:36,168 What do I do?" And John Mack said, 539 00:30:36,168 --> 00:30:38,378 "As soon as I can break away I’m coming over." 540 00:30:38,378 --> 00:30:40,632 And he did. 541 00:30:43,217 --> 00:30:45,052 With his credentials 542 00:30:45,220 --> 00:30:48,138 as head of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard, 543 00:30:48,682 --> 00:30:53,393 I sat up and took notice. That took it to another depth. 544 00:30:53,393 --> 00:30:55,145 And their stories are consistent...There’s 545 00:30:55,145 --> 00:30:56,688 some details that are not consistent, 546 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:58,900 like the boys saying the two different days and... 547 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:02,445 Do you think it’s possible that one, uh, imaginative child, 548 00:31:02,445 --> 00:31:06,823 uh, had a story and kind of stirred the, the rest of them? 549 00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:09,118 No, I don’t believe. I don’t believe. 550 00:31:09,118 --> 00:31:10,995 I honestly believe they saw something, 551 00:31:11,955 --> 00:31:14,873 but for me to actually draw a conclusion as to what it is, 552 00:31:15,792 --> 00:31:18,127 I don’t think I could do that at this point in time. 553 00:31:18,127 --> 00:31:21,130 OK. How many of them reported seeing the craft? 554 00:31:21,130 --> 00:31:22,382 In other words... 555 00:31:22,382 --> 00:31:23,758 Probably in the region of about 60. 556 00:31:23,758 --> 00:31:25,092 More of them could have seen it 557 00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:28,053 and they’re just too embarrassed to talk about it. 558 00:31:28,053 --> 00:31:31,473 Or we haven’t, actually haven’t had the grade ones 559 00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:32,808 and twos involved. 560 00:31:32,808 --> 00:31:34,018 You haven’t spoke... 561 00:31:34,018 --> 00:31:35,312 So the six and seven-year-olds. 562 00:31:35,312 --> 00:31:37,272 Right. How long would you, uh, 563 00:31:37,313 --> 00:31:40,065 estimate that the scene actually lasted? 564 00:31:40,065 --> 00:31:42,610 It took over about 10 to 15 minutes. 565 00:31:42,610 --> 00:31:44,028 Really, that long? 566 00:31:44,028 --> 00:31:49,700 Did they describe any other, sensory experiences like smell 567 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:51,660 or sound or anything of that kind? 568 00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:53,245 Nothing at all actually. Honestly nothing. 569 00:31:53,245 --> 00:31:55,957 I don’t think anybody’s actually asked on at question. 570 00:31:58,125 --> 00:32:01,878 You’ve you’ve talked with the BBC people 571 00:32:01,878 --> 00:32:03,965 and with Nicki Carter here before, right? 572 00:32:03,965 --> 00:32:05,215 Yes. Yes. 573 00:32:05,215 --> 00:32:06,508 OK. But the experience 574 00:32:06,508 --> 00:32:08,093 is still fresh in your mind, is that right? 575 00:32:08,093 --> 00:32:09,303 Yes. OK. 576 00:32:09,303 --> 00:32:12,890 What were you doing at the time? 577 00:32:13,975 --> 00:32:16,268 Well, I was playing at, in the playground 578 00:32:16,268 --> 00:32:19,897 and then we just, we saw something silver 579 00:32:19,897 --> 00:32:23,192 and then we quickly ran to the log, to the logs. 580 00:32:23,192 --> 00:32:27,530 And then we saw a silver, silver thing. 581 00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:29,823 And we saw a man standing next to it. 582 00:32:29,823 --> 00:32:31,408 And what did he look like? 583 00:32:32,243 --> 00:32:35,497 Well, he had big eyes that, like, pointed. 584 00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:38,207 Pointed, big eyes? Yes. 585 00:32:38,207 --> 00:32:41,210 Can, can you... Maybe you could just draw the head. 586 00:32:41,210 --> 00:32:42,712 What, what... Do you like to draw? 587 00:32:42,712 --> 00:32:43,922 Yes. 588 00:32:43,922 --> 00:32:45,673 OK. Pull your chair up and we’ll go. 589 00:32:49,635 --> 00:32:51,845 And what, these are what? What are you drawing here? 590 00:32:51,845 --> 00:32:53,848 The eyes. The eyes. OK. 591 00:32:53,848 --> 00:32:55,808 And I couldn’t see his nose and his mouth, 592 00:32:55,808 --> 00:32:57,268 but his nose was pretty small. 593 00:32:57,268 --> 00:32:58,518 So his eyes were large. 594 00:32:58,518 --> 00:32:59,728 Is that right? Yes. 595 00:32:59,728 --> 00:33:01,147 Did you look into the eyes? 596 00:33:01,147 --> 00:33:03,232 I mean, could you make, did you have a sense that you were... 597 00:33:03,273 --> 00:33:05,818 No. All we saw was his eyes. They were black. 598 00:33:05,818 --> 00:33:07,528 Black. But, like, were looking at you 599 00:33:07,528 --> 00:33:10,448 or were you at, at, at, uh, at him? 600 00:33:10,448 --> 00:33:12,450 Seemed that he was looking at all of us. 601 00:33:13,868 --> 00:33:16,828 Have you, have you ever seen a UFO. 602 00:33:16,828 --> 00:33:18,873 Have I? I never have, no. 603 00:33:29,550 --> 00:33:31,593 And I didn’t see anything over there. 604 00:33:31,593 --> 00:33:33,012 No nose. You didn’t see a nose? 605 00:33:33,012 --> 00:33:35,890 No. 606 00:33:35,890 --> 00:33:40,060 I just, my heart kind of went faster 607 00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:41,395 and then slower 608 00:33:41,395 --> 00:33:44,648 and then faster and the slower all at the same time. 609 00:33:45,525 --> 00:33:48,027 Now was that... That was excitement and...? 610 00:33:48,027 --> 00:33:49,612 Yeah. Excitement and scariness. 611 00:33:49,612 --> 00:33:51,988 And scary. And how, well you said happy too. 612 00:33:51,988 --> 00:33:54,742 Yeah. Yeah. Happy because? 613 00:33:55,660 --> 00:33:57,245 Because... 614 00:33:58,037 --> 00:34:03,000 I saw something strange and something peculiar 615 00:34:04,293 --> 00:34:06,378 and something nobody had ever seen. 616 00:34:07,797 --> 00:34:10,717 Haley, you, something scared you. 617 00:34:10,717 --> 00:34:12,050 Is that right? Yes. 618 00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:14,470 What, what scared you? The noise. 619 00:34:14,470 --> 00:34:16,263 What noise? 620 00:34:16,263 --> 00:34:18,015 The noise that we heard in the air. 621 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,477 You heard a noise in the air? Yes. 622 00:34:20,477 --> 00:34:23,687 What was it like? Like a roar or a buzz or a hum 623 00:34:23,687 --> 00:34:25,022 or what kind of a noise? 624 00:34:25,022 --> 00:34:27,233 It was like someone was blowing a flute. 625 00:34:27,233 --> 00:34:28,943 And that scared you? 626 00:34:28,943 --> 00:34:30,528 Yes. Mm hmm. 627 00:34:30,528 --> 00:34:32,822 And what did you do when, when you were afraid? 628 00:34:34,448 --> 00:34:37,202 Um, I ran away from it. 629 00:34:37,202 --> 00:34:38,870 Mm hmm. 630 00:34:38,870 --> 00:34:43,623 We told the teacher but she said just forget about it. 631 00:34:45,585 --> 00:34:48,378 People who have these experiences 632 00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:49,630 are very serious about them. 633 00:34:49,672 --> 00:34:53,175 And I think that generally speaking when something 634 00:34:53,175 --> 00:34:56,345 powerful, important, exciting, scary has happened, 635 00:34:56,845 --> 00:34:59,265 that it’s useful to talk about it, 636 00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:01,767 to have open discussion. 637 00:35:01,767 --> 00:35:04,562 And it doesn’t mean you have to impose a point of view. 638 00:35:05,353 --> 00:35:09,108 It’s not about what we believe; it’s what their experience is 639 00:35:09,108 --> 00:35:10,735 and how they find the adults 640 00:35:10,777 --> 00:35:13,695 around being receptive to that experience. 641 00:35:14,947 --> 00:35:18,575 And you said that, uh, you saw two, um, 642 00:35:19,243 --> 00:35:20,995 what would you call them? Um... 643 00:35:21,037 --> 00:35:22,872 Aliens. Aliens, you call them. 644 00:35:24,332 --> 00:35:29,170 And, and where the aliens in relation to the to the craft? 645 00:35:29,170 --> 00:35:30,838 I saw one over here. 646 00:35:30,838 --> 00:35:36,010 And I saw one, one of these men by, by the spaceship. 647 00:35:36,010 --> 00:35:38,930 It looks like it was guarding by the big spaceship. 648 00:35:39,513 --> 00:35:43,935 And there was another one running, running in the grass. 649 00:35:43,935 --> 00:35:47,188 And how did he run compared to the, say, a way a kid would run? 650 00:35:47,188 --> 00:35:50,190 He ran normally like us but bouncy 651 00:35:50,190 --> 00:35:52,067 as if a human would run on the moon. 652 00:35:52,943 --> 00:35:56,030 As there were less gravity and it seemed light. Is that...? 653 00:35:56,072 --> 00:36:00,075 Yes. But not, not as much as a human on the moon. 654 00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:03,537 Not that extreme. When he ran his distance, 655 00:36:03,537 --> 00:36:05,790 he stopped and he looked at us at for a while 656 00:36:06,582 --> 00:36:08,167 and then he ran back again. 657 00:36:09,460 --> 00:36:10,878 The one thing that I’ve told everybody 658 00:36:10,878 --> 00:36:12,213 is we are dealing with children here. 659 00:36:12,213 --> 00:36:13,630 Right. 660 00:36:13,630 --> 00:36:16,258 Sometimes the imagination can get carried away with them. 661 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,218 Yeah. OK. 662 00:36:18,218 --> 00:36:20,805 How many of you still think they were just making it up? 663 00:36:21,472 --> 00:36:24,642 And what got me was that there were no adults outside. 664 00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:26,518 Nobody, none of us saw it. 665 00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:28,228 We just happened to be in a staff meeting. 666 00:36:28,228 --> 00:36:29,813 I totally believe the children. 667 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,775 They came running up here in such a panic 668 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,318 and, I mean, even if we had staged it 669 00:36:35,318 --> 00:36:37,488 they could not have run all together like that. 670 00:36:37,488 --> 00:36:39,698 Just heard them screaming, screaming, "Ah!" 671 00:36:39,698 --> 00:36:42,993 and they were here. You know? And a child can’t make that up. 672 00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:46,705 And I mean, children know when other children are conning them. 673 00:36:46,705 --> 00:36:49,542 And they were, like, about 100 of them that just came here. 674 00:36:49,542 --> 00:36:53,628 They didn’t see anything. I think they said making, 675 00:36:53,628 --> 00:36:55,673 make-believe story that actually created. 676 00:36:55,673 --> 00:36:56,965 That’s my feeling. 677 00:36:56,965 --> 00:36:59,135 What do you think started the story? 678 00:36:59,135 --> 00:37:00,427 Since during that time, 679 00:37:00,427 --> 00:37:03,888 there were the talk about meteorites and all that. 680 00:37:03,888 --> 00:37:07,435 I suppose they, somebody created this story 681 00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:11,105 and they sort of thought maybe they had seen something. 682 00:37:12,315 --> 00:37:13,983 You think that the children’s imaginations 683 00:37:13,983 --> 00:37:15,525 are getting carried with them. 684 00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:18,153 But I became convinced when I saw the drawings, 685 00:37:18,153 --> 00:37:20,447 because so many of the drawings were similar. 686 00:37:20,447 --> 00:37:24,077 And also when they wrote their stories in their storybooks. 687 00:37:24,077 --> 00:37:26,328 They, they definitely seem genuine because, I mean, 688 00:37:26,370 --> 00:37:28,413 they all wrote completely different stories 689 00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:30,290 but they had seen the same thing. 690 00:37:30,290 --> 00:37:31,792 And I think that’s what convinced me 691 00:37:31,792 --> 00:37:34,712 because I think I was as skeptical as everybody else. 692 00:37:34,712 --> 00:37:35,963 It wasn’t just Ariel School. 693 00:37:35,963 --> 00:37:38,465 There were a lot of different occurrences 694 00:37:38,465 --> 00:37:41,635 that happened over the, the, probably that whole week. 695 00:37:41,635 --> 00:37:43,262 I live here at the school, 696 00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:45,848 so I try not to think about it at all. 697 00:37:46,473 --> 00:37:48,392 Because if I do I have sleepless nights. 698 00:37:48,392 --> 00:37:49,727 Then you have sleepless nights? 699 00:37:49,727 --> 00:37:51,145 I do! 700 00:37:51,145 --> 00:37:53,647 I’ve had a lot of sleepless nights since it happened. 701 00:37:53,647 --> 00:37:55,900 So I tried to put it out of my mind. 702 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:58,860 What do you think about the reality aspect of it? 703 00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:00,528 Seeing is believing. I don’t know. 704 00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:02,238 But then I’m also scared of the unknown, 705 00:38:02,238 --> 00:38:04,575 so it’s something that I block off 706 00:38:04,575 --> 00:38:06,493 because I’d rather get on with school. 707 00:38:06,493 --> 00:38:08,078 Do you think the kids are telling the truth 708 00:38:08,078 --> 00:38:09,372 or do you think they are, they kind of... 709 00:38:09,372 --> 00:38:10,622 I think they are 710 00:38:10,622 --> 00:38:11,957 ...embellished it, imagined it? 711 00:38:11,957 --> 00:38:13,375 Yeah. I think that I’d rather not think about it... 712 00:38:13,375 --> 00:38:14,627 You’d rather not? ...again, because 713 00:38:14,627 --> 00:38:16,003 now if I think about it tonight 714 00:38:16,045 --> 00:38:18,005 I’ll have another sleepless night. 715 00:38:18,005 --> 00:38:20,382 Because I’m waiting for an alien to come through the walls. 716 00:38:20,382 --> 00:38:21,592 So... 717 00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:24,053 Some of the kids in my class are so frightened. 718 00:38:24,595 --> 00:38:26,513 I actually can see that. 719 00:38:26,513 --> 00:38:28,390 It must have affected them so much 720 00:38:28,390 --> 00:38:33,062 that they sort of imagine something will happen to them. 721 00:38:33,062 --> 00:38:36,148 They’re still young and you don’t know sort of, 722 00:38:36,148 --> 00:38:38,733 how to act and how to speak to them. 723 00:38:38,775 --> 00:38:40,027 You’re a bit careful. 724 00:38:40,027 --> 00:38:41,945 If we’re going to keep discussing this, 725 00:38:41,945 --> 00:38:44,573 the parents have been knocking on my door every single day. 726 00:38:44,615 --> 00:38:45,908 Yeah. 727 00:38:45,908 --> 00:38:49,828 Um, I don’t think you can generalize 728 00:38:51,747 --> 00:38:53,165 when it comes to something like this. 729 00:38:53,165 --> 00:38:54,542 You got to be extremely careful 730 00:38:54,542 --> 00:38:56,877 which way the parent is going to jump. 731 00:38:56,877 --> 00:38:59,588 If he’s going to jump the wrong way, you’ve caused a problem. 732 00:38:59,588 --> 00:39:01,298 Right. You’ve caused a problem. 733 00:39:01,298 --> 00:39:03,050 I think you’re all... You’re not solving it. 734 00:39:03,050 --> 00:39:05,427 You’re probably all aware of this caution 735 00:39:05,427 --> 00:39:07,597 that Colin is talking about. 736 00:39:07,597 --> 00:39:10,557 We had one child who was very upset by the whole thing. 737 00:39:11,350 --> 00:39:12,893 Unfortunately he’s not at the school anymore. 738 00:39:12,893 --> 00:39:14,603 He’s actually gone back to Canada. 739 00:39:14,603 --> 00:39:17,482 He was having sleepless nights and this was a 12, 740 00:39:17,482 --> 00:39:20,192 13-year-old child. Basically the cause of that 741 00:39:20,192 --> 00:39:23,070 was his parents refused to discuss the situation with him. 742 00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:28,283 His parents were very religious and according to them 743 00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:29,993 this sort of thing doesn’t happen. 744 00:39:38,335 --> 00:39:41,088 Just down that road, yes. 745 00:39:41,255 --> 00:39:42,757 Oh, my gosh. 746 00:39:42,757 --> 00:39:44,967 I can’t believe I’m going to see Mrs. Hwacha. 747 00:39:48,845 --> 00:39:50,765 And she, her name suits her, too. 748 00:39:50,765 --> 00:39:52,725 Yes, it does. Yes, it does. You know? Mrs. Hwacha. 749 00:39:52,725 --> 00:39:54,102 Mrs. Hwacha. Watch! 750 00:39:54,102 --> 00:39:55,143 Exactly! 751 00:39:58,105 --> 00:39:59,440 I remember she was very strict. 752 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,358 Was it, like, very, very strict. 753 00:40:01,358 --> 00:40:02,735 Like, everything was done by her book. 754 00:40:02,777 --> 00:40:03,943 Yeah. 755 00:40:05,695 --> 00:40:08,240 There we go. Judge Hwacha. 756 00:40:10,242 --> 00:40:11,577 That’s her car there, yeah? 757 00:40:11,577 --> 00:40:16,457 Yes. OK. Ms. Hwacha’s coming. 758 00:40:16,498 --> 00:40:19,210 She’s coming out now. Yeah. Emily Trim. 759 00:40:19,210 --> 00:40:21,503 Yes! You remember? 760 00:40:21,503 --> 00:40:23,713 Yes! Mrs. Hwacha! 761 00:40:25,298 --> 00:40:30,303 Mrs. Hwacha! I’m now old. 762 00:40:31,055 --> 00:40:32,640 I'm now old. I know. 763 00:40:32,682 --> 00:40:34,433 You don’t see me to be old? 764 00:40:34,433 --> 00:40:37,562 No! I missed you. 765 00:40:37,562 --> 00:40:38,770 Pardon? 766 00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:40,898 I missed you. You missed me? 767 00:40:41,232 --> 00:40:42,440 Mm hmm. 768 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,445 I was a little bit difficult. Wasn’t I? 769 00:40:46,612 --> 00:40:48,238 No. You? 770 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,532 Mm. 771 00:40:49,532 --> 00:40:53,868 Oh. You were, you were strict. 772 00:40:54,745 --> 00:40:56,163 You were strict! 773 00:40:56,330 --> 00:40:59,375 That is exactly what I wanted to hear! 774 00:40:59,375 --> 00:41:02,587 Yes! You were strict. 775 00:41:02,587 --> 00:41:05,672 But you were fair, you know? You were fair. 776 00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:06,632 I was very fair. 777 00:41:06,632 --> 00:41:08,342 Yes. But... 778 00:41:08,342 --> 00:41:10,845 Strict. And it was beautiful. 779 00:41:11,012 --> 00:41:13,513 Oh Beautiful 780 00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:17,017 There is this business of, 781 00:41:17,017 --> 00:41:20,770 um, us being, asked about the aliens. 782 00:41:21,313 --> 00:41:22,648 Yeah. Up to this end. 783 00:41:22,648 --> 00:41:23,898 Mm hmm. 784 00:41:23,898 --> 00:41:25,775 Yeah, because you saw that, those things. 785 00:41:25,775 --> 00:41:27,903 You saw those people? Mm hmm. 786 00:41:27,903 --> 00:41:31,740 We asked the children, the school children 787 00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:33,992 then to draw. 788 00:41:34,702 --> 00:41:36,120 Yes. You remember? 789 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,122 Mm hmm. You also drew? 790 00:41:38,122 --> 00:41:40,165 Mm hmm. 791 00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:42,668 So Mr. Mackie asked us, 792 00:41:43,543 --> 00:41:46,297 we put all the papers according to the classes, 793 00:41:47,172 --> 00:41:51,510 finished this class, to the other, to the other, 794 00:41:51,510 --> 00:41:55,513 to the other. They were all the same. 795 00:41:55,513 --> 00:41:57,015 Same. 796 00:41:57,015 --> 00:42:03,480 We ended up concluding that certainly we saw people. 797 00:42:05,315 --> 00:42:07,610 They’re going? Where to? 798 00:42:07,610 --> 00:42:09,653 Yeah. How did they come there? 799 00:42:09,653 --> 00:42:10,905 Mm hmm. 800 00:42:10,947 --> 00:42:13,323 Who are they? Are they people? 801 00:42:15,283 --> 00:42:21,165 We couldn’t tell. That’s what this story is. 802 00:42:21,165 --> 00:42:23,375 Yes. That’s what you saw also. 803 00:42:25,460 --> 00:42:30,673 Yes. I had kept those papers myself. 804 00:42:30,673 --> 00:42:31,800 You Did? 805 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,927 I don’t know what happened to them. 806 00:42:33,927 --> 00:42:35,512 Ah! I’m looking for mine. 807 00:42:36,055 --> 00:42:38,973 I... You can’t find it? I can’t find mine. 808 00:42:38,973 --> 00:42:40,558 Same with me. 809 00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:45,438 Because I had thought it was something I must also hold onto. 810 00:42:47,858 --> 00:42:50,152 I didn’t know what that meant. 811 00:42:54,573 --> 00:42:56,492 Uh, these eyes, did you look at them? 812 00:42:56,492 --> 00:42:57,910 Yes. 813 00:42:57,910 --> 00:43:00,287 What feeling did that give you when you looked in the eyes? 814 00:43:00,287 --> 00:43:01,497 It made me shake a little. 815 00:43:01,497 --> 00:43:02,247 Made you shake. 816 00:43:02,247 --> 00:43:03,582 It was a terrifying feeling. 817 00:43:03,582 --> 00:43:04,292 A what? 818 00:43:04,292 --> 00:43:05,083 A terrifying. 819 00:43:05,083 --> 00:43:06,502 A terrifying feeling. Yes. 820 00:43:06,502 --> 00:43:08,337 And what made it terrifying? 821 00:43:08,337 --> 00:43:10,130 The way he was looking at me. 822 00:43:10,130 --> 00:43:11,632 How did he look at you? 823 00:43:11,632 --> 00:43:14,885 Strangely, like and old woman who hadn’t seen a kid before. 824 00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:16,262 Like a what? 825 00:43:16,262 --> 00:43:17,512 An old woman who hasn’t seen a kid before. 826 00:43:17,512 --> 00:43:19,432 An old woman who hasn’t seen a kid before? 827 00:43:19,432 --> 00:43:21,433 Yes. She stares like this. 828 00:43:21,433 --> 00:43:23,643 OK, let me, I’m going to ask you to do something. 829 00:43:23,643 --> 00:43:28,065 Try to just be in that feeling for a moment. 830 00:43:28,065 --> 00:43:30,317 Try to remember that terrifying feeling. OK? 831 00:43:30,317 --> 00:43:31,818 Can you do that? 832 00:43:31,818 --> 00:43:35,113 I know it’s unpleasant, but nothing bad will happen. OK? 833 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,615 And just try to tell me what that terror, 834 00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:38,867 what’s in the terror. 835 00:43:38,867 --> 00:43:41,620 See what, what you find in the terror. 836 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:44,915 What, what, what it might be about. 837 00:43:45,832 --> 00:43:48,418 It was making me all scared and my heart 838 00:43:48,418 --> 00:43:50,420 was now starting to pump faster 839 00:43:50,420 --> 00:43:52,965 and it was making me all woozy now. 840 00:43:52,965 --> 00:43:55,383 Like woozy, losing... Yes. 841 00:43:55,383 --> 00:43:56,885 Like, like you were going to faint, you mean? 842 00:43:56,885 --> 00:43:58,095 Yeah. Did you faint? 843 00:43:58,095 --> 00:43:59,722 No. Yeah. Yeah. 844 00:43:59,722 --> 00:44:01,348 And then I was looking at him, right? 845 00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:01,932 Yeah. 846 00:44:01,932 --> 00:44:03,225 And then he was looking at me back. 847 00:44:03,225 --> 00:44:04,810 How could I just keep on looking at him? 848 00:44:04,810 --> 00:44:06,603 So I just stopped and I looked sideways, 849 00:44:06,645 --> 00:44:08,772 so he wouldn’t keep on making me feeling faint. 850 00:44:09,105 --> 00:44:10,857 But you kept looking? Yes. 851 00:44:10,857 --> 00:44:11,983 Why did you keep looking? 852 00:44:11,983 --> 00:44:13,860 I don’t know. Something just attracted me to look at him. 853 00:44:13,860 --> 00:44:16,030 Something attracted you, huh? Yes. 854 00:44:16,030 --> 00:44:19,742 The other man, he, his eyes looked at me as if, um, 855 00:44:19,908 --> 00:44:22,995 "I want to..." Things like that. 856 00:44:22,995 --> 00:44:24,872 I want to what? I want you. 857 00:44:24,872 --> 00:44:26,290 I want you? Yeah. 858 00:44:26,290 --> 00:44:27,540 I want you in what? 859 00:44:27,540 --> 00:44:29,333 Like, I want you to come with me? 860 00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:31,087 Yeah. I want you to come with me. 861 00:44:31,087 --> 00:44:32,797 I want you to come. 862 00:44:32,838 --> 00:44:34,548 Did you go with him, do you think? 863 00:44:36,342 --> 00:44:38,385 No. Only my eyes went with him. 864 00:44:38,385 --> 00:44:40,303 Your eyes went with him? And my feeling. 865 00:44:40,303 --> 00:44:41,763 And your feeling went with him. 866 00:44:41,763 --> 00:44:43,598 So was there a part of you that wanted to go with him? 867 00:44:43,598 --> 00:44:44,850 Yeah. 868 00:44:44,850 --> 00:44:46,602 That felt, like, drawn to go with him? 869 00:44:46,643 --> 00:44:47,895 Yeah. OK. 870 00:44:47,895 --> 00:44:49,438 Can you say what that felt like? 871 00:44:52,398 --> 00:44:55,443 Again, scary and a little excited. 872 00:44:55,443 --> 00:44:56,653 Yeah. 873 00:44:56,653 --> 00:44:59,113 And, and a little I shouldn’t go. 874 00:44:59,948 --> 00:45:02,910 Yeah. And yet I want to go? 875 00:45:02,910 --> 00:45:04,495 Yeah. Yeah. 876 00:45:05,245 --> 00:45:07,580 John Mack seemed to have brought out that information, 877 00:45:07,580 --> 00:45:10,750 because we just took it out in a very analytical way. 878 00:45:10,750 --> 00:45:12,418 We just said, "What did you see?" 879 00:45:13,003 --> 00:45:14,672 and "What did the aliens look like?" 880 00:45:14,672 --> 00:45:17,132 "What did they do?" But we never thought 881 00:45:17,758 --> 00:45:22,470 there might be some kind of emotional, deeper effect. 882 00:45:22,470 --> 00:45:24,515 You know, it really gave you goosebumps, 883 00:45:24,515 --> 00:45:26,267 if I might put it that way. 884 00:45:26,267 --> 00:45:27,977 You know, there’s something more going on here 885 00:45:27,977 --> 00:45:29,562 than what met the eye. 886 00:45:30,770 --> 00:45:32,355 What made you scream? 887 00:45:35,442 --> 00:45:37,987 I was just getting very scared. 888 00:45:38,278 --> 00:45:39,947 What were you scared would happen? 889 00:45:40,780 --> 00:45:42,657 Now don’t be afraid to make, say, 890 00:45:42,657 --> 00:45:45,327 even if you think it’s not sensible, 891 00:45:46,537 --> 00:45:48,955 just tell me what you were afraid might happen. 892 00:45:49,832 --> 00:45:52,208 Um, I thought the aliens would attack me. 893 00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:55,128 Would attack you? And do what? Hurt you? 894 00:45:55,128 --> 00:45:56,338 Yes. 895 00:45:56,338 --> 00:45:58,507 How would they do that? I don’t know. 896 00:45:59,132 --> 00:46:00,467 Mm hmm. 897 00:46:00,467 --> 00:46:02,928 It looked evil because it was just staring at me. 898 00:46:04,178 --> 00:46:08,017 With what? Starting at you as if what? As if to do what? 899 00:46:10,143 --> 00:46:11,937 As if it wanted to come and take us. 900 00:46:24,492 --> 00:46:27,702 I know this is hard. I know it’s hard. Try to... 901 00:46:29,955 --> 00:46:32,623 It’s hard to put into words what you felt, I’m sure. 902 00:46:37,212 --> 00:46:41,383 John did this public meeting in Harare. 903 00:46:41,383 --> 00:46:44,468 He did an incredible service to the community 904 00:46:44,468 --> 00:46:48,557 who were worried and just wanted answers. 905 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,603 Dr. John Mack is a true academic. 906 00:46:54,605 --> 00:46:58,233 He’s a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University. 907 00:46:58,942 --> 00:47:01,445 I think we’re very, very lucky in this country 908 00:47:01,445 --> 00:47:02,947 to have somebody of his caliber. 909 00:47:02,947 --> 00:47:05,948 So can we have a big hand for Dr. Mack? 910 00:47:10,912 --> 00:47:13,165 Thrilled to be here tonight to have a chance 911 00:47:13,165 --> 00:47:15,708 to talk with you about this phenomenon. 912 00:47:16,377 --> 00:47:18,628 I’m trained in adult and child psychiatry 913 00:47:18,628 --> 00:47:20,963 and adult and child psychoanalysis. 914 00:47:20,963 --> 00:47:25,468 And I’m a relative newcomer to the UFO field. 915 00:47:26,052 --> 00:47:28,138 And the reason for this trip 916 00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:33,518 is the incident that took place in Ruwa at the Ariel School. 917 00:47:33,518 --> 00:47:34,853 A number of you 918 00:47:34,853 --> 00:47:38,440 I’m sure know something about what took place there. 919 00:47:38,982 --> 00:47:41,485 The children we talked with clearly 920 00:47:41,485 --> 00:47:44,403 were talking about a phenomenon 921 00:47:44,403 --> 00:47:47,365 that occurred in physical reality. 922 00:47:47,365 --> 00:47:49,533 In other words, their stories were consistent 923 00:47:49,533 --> 00:47:51,453 and the way they talked about it 924 00:47:51,453 --> 00:47:54,873 left virtually no question in our minds 925 00:47:54,873 --> 00:47:59,628 that what happened was just about what they said happened. 926 00:48:02,713 --> 00:48:04,675 I know it’s strange, very weird. 927 00:48:04,675 --> 00:48:06,427 Yeah. I just got so scared. 928 00:48:07,802 --> 00:48:08,970 So, yeah. 929 00:48:09,597 --> 00:48:11,390 If I had to describe that day, 930 00:48:11,390 --> 00:48:13,558 the first thing that I remember is the light 931 00:48:13,558 --> 00:48:16,227 and sound is the main thing that just strikes me. 932 00:48:16,227 --> 00:48:17,812 And then the two shadows. 933 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,023 But especially the sound and the light. 934 00:48:21,023 --> 00:48:22,275 The light because it was so bright, 935 00:48:22,275 --> 00:48:24,527 the sound because it scared me. So... 936 00:48:24,568 --> 00:48:27,197 Yeah, we heard a sound in that, that direction. 937 00:48:27,197 --> 00:48:29,700 It was sort of like a buzzing noise. 938 00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:33,245 It was a very, you know, it was like a buzzing. 939 00:48:33,245 --> 00:48:36,290 The buzzing of what you would hear at an electric station 940 00:48:36,290 --> 00:48:39,208 or, um, anywhere close to that. 941 00:48:40,293 --> 00:48:43,255 Like, something’s being zapped almost. 942 00:49:16,538 --> 00:49:20,417 I noticed that there was a large shape amongst the trees, 943 00:49:20,417 --> 00:49:23,128 which we couldn’t really figure out what it was. 944 00:49:24,628 --> 00:49:27,298 It looked like a, a big rock. 945 00:49:28,467 --> 00:49:31,135 It looked like water was trickling over it 946 00:49:31,135 --> 00:49:33,347 and the sun was reflecting in that water. 947 00:49:36,808 --> 00:49:38,393 That’s the best way I can describe it. 948 00:49:38,435 --> 00:49:43,065 It didn’t look like a, a smooth metallic object as you would, 949 00:49:43,732 --> 00:49:47,777 you would think when you were looking at a UFO on TV 950 00:49:47,777 --> 00:49:50,072 as we depict them. It looked natural. 951 00:49:50,072 --> 00:49:52,823 It didn’t look like anything man-made. 952 00:49:53,283 --> 00:49:57,745 You saw it again appearing in kind of like in spots. 953 00:49:57,745 --> 00:49:59,497 You saw it and then you didn’t see it. 954 00:49:59,497 --> 00:50:00,915 You know, and then you saw it again. 955 00:50:00,915 --> 00:50:05,087 In the same general area, but it was, that kind of was, 956 00:50:05,087 --> 00:50:07,130 you know, like I said, what made you think twice, 957 00:50:07,172 --> 00:50:09,590 like, OK, did I, did I see it? Didn’t I see it? 958 00:50:09,590 --> 00:50:11,133 But when every, you know, then everyone else 959 00:50:11,133 --> 00:50:14,345 started saying, "Yes, I see it." And it was the same thing 960 00:50:14,345 --> 00:50:16,723 when we saw whatever beings where there. 961 00:50:16,723 --> 00:50:18,183 You know? 962 00:50:18,183 --> 00:50:20,768 It wasn’t like they were just standing and looking at you. 963 00:50:21,395 --> 00:50:26,357 You would see them in various places at various times. 964 00:50:26,357 --> 00:50:27,692 So you didn’t know if it was one, 965 00:50:27,692 --> 00:50:29,277 if it was more than one. 966 00:50:30,195 --> 00:50:33,490 He moved kind of strangely. I’d say almost like, 967 00:50:34,867 --> 00:50:37,410 say, a very graceful sort of movement. 968 00:50:37,410 --> 00:50:40,080 You know, not like he was stumbling around or anything. 969 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,875 He, like, sort of like glided from, while he was walking. 970 00:50:45,002 --> 00:50:47,087 There wasn’t any gravitational pull. 971 00:50:47,087 --> 00:50:48,630 It was, uh, very fluid. 972 00:50:50,423 --> 00:50:54,635 So when he was moving it was very fluid and flowy 973 00:50:54,635 --> 00:50:56,888 and it wasn’t kind of jerky or... 974 00:50:58,348 --> 00:50:59,640 Yeah. 975 00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,227 The strange thing was it was running in slow motion, 976 00:51:03,395 --> 00:51:06,063 as if you would watch a replay in a football match. 977 00:51:06,063 --> 00:51:09,902 It was running in slow-motion diagonally down the field. 978 00:51:10,735 --> 00:51:13,070 And then suddenly it would reappear in the corner 979 00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:15,073 where it started and do the same thing. 980 00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:18,535 And then it would reappear and do the same thing. 981 00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:23,707 And that was frightening, more frightening than seeing 982 00:51:24,248 --> 00:51:25,958 what these things actually were, 983 00:51:26,460 --> 00:51:28,962 was not being able to see them long enough, I guess. 984 00:51:34,008 --> 00:51:39,807 It really ripped my socks off. It was unbelievable. 985 00:51:41,140 --> 00:51:44,310 I’ve got to justify myself to the BBC and... 986 00:51:44,937 --> 00:51:49,482 How am I going to explain to a serious BBC editor in London 987 00:51:49,482 --> 00:51:52,485 that this is not an April Fool’s joke in September? 988 00:51:53,987 --> 00:51:55,905 The BBC always have this policy 989 00:51:55,905 --> 00:51:58,325 that you don’t run with one source. 990 00:51:59,117 --> 00:52:01,537 You got to get two or three, preferably three. 991 00:52:01,537 --> 00:52:04,788 And I had 20, 30, 40. 992 00:52:05,915 --> 00:52:09,335 Now I put a, a lot of stake on the physical evidence. 993 00:52:09,335 --> 00:52:14,090 But I don’t primarily emphasize that not 994 00:52:14,090 --> 00:52:15,800 because I don’t think it’s critically important. 995 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,303 I think that physical evidence is very valuable. 996 00:52:19,303 --> 00:52:21,263 But for me my strongest suit 997 00:52:21,263 --> 00:52:26,812 is my clinical investigative approach to create trust, 998 00:52:26,853 --> 00:52:29,940 to bring forth whatever it is, 999 00:52:29,940 --> 00:52:32,692 and the memories and experiences come flooding back. 1000 00:52:33,943 --> 00:52:36,572 Now the fact is that people aren’t threatened 1001 00:52:36,572 --> 00:52:39,115 when they come forward about this. 1002 00:52:39,115 --> 00:52:42,077 Children, very reluctant to tell their parents, 1003 00:52:42,077 --> 00:52:45,038 and a mother or father may say to a child, 1004 00:52:45,038 --> 00:52:46,748 "Oh, you must have been making it up. 1005 00:52:46,748 --> 00:52:49,918 You, your imagination is too, uh, too lively." 1006 00:52:49,918 --> 00:52:51,753 And then the child sort of grumbles 1007 00:52:51,753 --> 00:52:55,132 and they go inside and they do what I call "going underground". 1008 00:52:55,798 --> 00:53:00,512 They know what happened to them, but they don’t tell anybody. 1009 00:53:03,013 --> 00:53:05,267 I mean you just felt nobody really cared. 1010 00:53:07,477 --> 00:53:10,022 Who do you talk to? How do you understand it? 1011 00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:14,692 The people in my life that were supposed to be the closest 1012 00:53:14,692 --> 00:53:16,485 and, um, the support system, 1013 00:53:20,365 --> 00:53:22,325 it didn’t feel like it was there. 1014 00:53:23,327 --> 00:53:26,203 There was nobody there to say, "Now it’s OK to talk about it." 1015 00:53:26,203 --> 00:53:29,248 So we never did. And as children you have a huge imagination, 1016 00:53:29,248 --> 00:53:32,002 so you see those sort of things and not know what they are. 1017 00:53:32,002 --> 00:53:34,963 And you, you’re left with this, well, "where am I?" 1018 00:53:34,963 --> 00:53:38,342 limbo state of "Am I safe or am I not safe?" 1019 00:53:38,342 --> 00:53:41,595 So it was, I think as a protective mechanism, 1020 00:53:41,595 --> 00:53:44,472 block it out, turn it off, don’t, don’t go back to it. 1021 00:53:46,933 --> 00:53:49,268 I haven’t really talked to anyone about it. 1022 00:53:49,268 --> 00:53:51,062 I usually kept it quiet, you know, 1023 00:53:51,062 --> 00:53:54,523 because most people probably think I’m a, 1024 00:53:54,523 --> 00:53:55,942 you know, a bit nuts. 1025 00:53:57,318 --> 00:53:58,945 You’re not exactly going to bring up 1026 00:53:58,945 --> 00:54:03,198 this kind of conversation at a, at a bar or a restaurant or... 1027 00:54:04,242 --> 00:54:05,993 You know? People think you’re crazy. 1028 00:54:06,535 --> 00:54:08,203 It’s very hard. It’s kind of strange, I guess, 1029 00:54:08,203 --> 00:54:09,747 because they don’t believe you. 1030 00:54:09,747 --> 00:54:11,332 Some of my close friends know about it. 1031 00:54:11,332 --> 00:54:13,250 But it’s more like not a joke; but they’re like, 1032 00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:14,543 ’Huh, you’re crazy" type of thing, 1033 00:54:14,543 --> 00:54:16,003 like laughter type of, 1034 00:54:16,003 --> 00:54:18,507 like it’s something funny to, something to laugh about. 1035 00:54:19,090 --> 00:54:20,758 If this had been ten years ago, 1036 00:54:20,758 --> 00:54:23,260 I wasn’t in a place where I really wanted to talk about it. 1037 00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:25,055 I just didn’t want to be associated with that. 1038 00:54:25,263 --> 00:54:26,513 I was very self-conscious. 1039 00:54:26,513 --> 00:54:29,642 So, yeah, it’s kind of hard to talk about it. It is. 1040 00:54:30,768 --> 00:54:36,440 Because it’s not something that I bring up to anybody ever. 1041 00:54:38,192 --> 00:54:40,320 My husband doesn’t even know about it. 1042 00:54:54,042 --> 00:54:57,128 Oh, true expression of how it felt at times. 1043 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:00,382 It’s really, really difficult to face yourself. 1044 00:55:01,675 --> 00:55:04,552 That’s a scary time. Very, very scary time. 1045 00:55:06,763 --> 00:55:09,057 A lot of this was done in black at first, 1046 00:55:09,723 --> 00:55:12,310 because I think that’s how I was really feeling. 1047 00:55:15,522 --> 00:55:22,320 This is me with my hands over my eyes trying to hide away 1048 00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,572 from everything that’s been going on. 1049 00:55:25,573 --> 00:55:30,953 It got really, really dark. I love this piece. 1050 00:55:32,247 --> 00:55:33,915 It’s when I started using color. 1051 00:55:33,915 --> 00:55:38,712 It’s still a stern face, but I think it’s more confident. 1052 00:55:40,380 --> 00:55:42,215 Yeah, this one. 1053 00:55:42,215 --> 00:55:47,053 So here, this is the mouth, like, being zipped up. 1054 00:55:48,513 --> 00:55:52,600 This was, like, when all you want to do is just talk 1055 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,020 and you feel like you have no one to talk to. 1056 00:55:59,815 --> 00:56:02,985 I didn’t realize that it affected the children that much. 1057 00:56:02,985 --> 00:56:04,237 Mm hmm. 1058 00:56:04,237 --> 00:56:05,947 But it obviously has. Yes. 1059 00:56:05,947 --> 00:56:07,365 It was quite difficult, wasn’t it? 1060 00:56:07,365 --> 00:56:09,783 Because your mum and dad would not have believed. 1061 00:56:10,702 --> 00:56:12,453 They, they believed that something had occurred, 1062 00:56:12,495 --> 00:56:14,872 but it was very difficult to integrate... 1063 00:56:14,872 --> 00:56:17,125 Very difficult to put your religion and your, 1064 00:56:17,125 --> 00:56:20,503 see the Christian side of it with that happening. 1065 00:56:20,503 --> 00:56:21,712 So, Mr. Sitoni, yes. Come in. 1066 00:56:21,712 --> 00:56:22,922 Oh, hi, Ms. Bates. Hi! 1067 00:56:22,922 --> 00:56:24,173 How are you doing? 1068 00:56:24,173 --> 00:56:25,508 Oh, I’m OK, Mrs. Bates. How are you? 1069 00:56:25,508 --> 00:56:26,717 Yes. Hello. 1070 00:56:26,717 --> 00:56:28,260 Hi, how are you? It’s good to see you. 1071 00:56:28,260 --> 00:56:30,012 It’s good to see you, too. Back to your roots, are you? 1072 00:56:30,012 --> 00:56:31,222 Absolutely. 1073 00:56:31,263 --> 00:56:32,598 All right. I know. That’s beautiful. 1074 00:56:32,598 --> 00:56:36,352 Yeah, connecting and seeing, seeing the school again 1075 00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:39,355 and, you know, the event that occurred here in 1994. 1076 00:56:39,355 --> 00:56:40,898 Oh, yes, the aliens and all that. All right. 1077 00:56:40,898 --> 00:56:42,192 Yes. Beautiful. 1078 00:56:42,192 --> 00:56:43,860 So that’s, that’s what I’m here for. 1079 00:56:43,860 --> 00:56:45,278 Oh, that’s wonderful. Yeah. 1080 00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:46,947 Maybe, if you’re in tomorrow, if you don’t mind... 1081 00:56:46,947 --> 00:56:48,197 Yeah. 1082 00:56:48,197 --> 00:56:50,158 ...we can do the tradition thing. Do you mind? 1083 00:56:50,158 --> 00:56:52,077 I would love to do that. Ah, you’d love to. OK. 1084 00:56:52,077 --> 00:56:54,120 Yeah, because culture is a huge part of this. 1085 00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:55,622 Introduce you to a few people? 1086 00:56:55,622 --> 00:56:57,998 I’ll walk you out and you can visit all the sacred places 1087 00:56:57,998 --> 00:56:59,208 and you can talk to them. 1088 00:56:59,208 --> 00:57:01,293 And you can then, so when you come back here, 1089 00:57:01,293 --> 00:57:02,212 like, wow. 1090 00:57:02,295 --> 00:57:04,047 Yes! Yeah, OK. No, beautiful. 1091 00:57:04,088 --> 00:57:05,548 Thank you. Good to see you, isn’t it? 1092 00:57:05,548 --> 00:57:06,800 Good to see you, too. 1093 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:08,008 Later. Ms. Bates. 1094 00:57:08,008 --> 00:57:09,593 Thanks, Mr. Sitoni. 1095 00:57:37,163 --> 00:57:41,625 I saw these beings and they have black eyes. 1096 00:57:42,418 --> 00:57:46,172 We’ve, we’ve got those ones. We experience quite a lot. 1097 00:57:46,672 --> 00:57:48,592 A lot? Yeah. 1098 00:57:48,592 --> 00:57:51,593 Is it the same description as how I describe it, with... 1099 00:57:51,593 --> 00:57:52,970 Yes. ...that? 1100 00:57:52,970 --> 00:57:56,390 Yeah, they come, they come in different versions, yeah. 1101 00:57:56,390 --> 00:57:57,975 They come in different versions. 1102 00:58:16,202 --> 00:58:17,912 I don’t know what you’ve heard. 1103 00:58:36,555 --> 00:58:39,808 I’m supposed to talk about with, not, 1104 00:58:39,808 --> 00:58:40,893 it’s not, you know, not for... 1105 00:58:43,187 --> 00:58:44,313 Yes. 1106 00:59:53,465 --> 00:59:54,717 The sacred shrines. Yes. 1107 00:59:54,758 --> 00:59:56,010 So it’s really important that... 1108 00:59:59,305 --> 01:00:00,557 Mm hmm 1109 01:00:06,228 --> 01:00:07,105 Mm hmm 1110 01:00:10,317 --> 01:00:11,817 Did you hear about it? Sure. 1111 01:00:11,817 --> 01:00:12,818 With Ariel when it happened? 1112 01:00:16,238 --> 01:00:19,492 Can you point to us where the Ariel school is from here? 1113 01:00:24,997 --> 01:00:26,582 Oh my gosh! 1114 01:00:27,500 --> 01:00:29,418 Had you had those thoughts before this experience? 1115 01:00:29,418 --> 01:00:30,712 No. 1116 01:00:30,712 --> 01:00:35,298 No. And did, how did those thoughts come to you? 1117 01:00:35,298 --> 01:00:39,803 Did they come to you from the craft or from... 1118 01:00:40,430 --> 01:00:42,015 From the man. The man. 1119 01:00:42,807 --> 01:00:46,060 And the man, did the man say those things to you? 1120 01:00:46,935 --> 01:00:49,105 How did he get that across to you? 1121 01:00:50,482 --> 01:00:52,567 Well, he never said anything. 1122 01:00:52,567 --> 01:00:54,985 It’s just that the face, his, the eyes. 1123 01:00:55,987 --> 01:00:57,655 Fungai, what do you imagine 1124 01:00:57,655 --> 01:00:59,282 is his reason for visiting earth? 1125 01:01:00,533 --> 01:01:02,618 I think it’s about something that’s going to happen. 1126 01:01:02,660 --> 01:01:03,995 Something that’s going to happen? 1127 01:01:03,995 --> 01:01:05,747 Yes. Like what? 1128 01:01:05,747 --> 01:01:08,165 Um, it’s pollution or something. 1129 01:01:08,165 --> 01:01:10,083 Pollution? Yes. 1130 01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:13,838 And how did he get that idea of pollution across to you? 1131 01:01:13,838 --> 01:01:16,798 Um, the way he was staring. The way he was staring? 1132 01:01:16,798 --> 01:01:18,133 Yes. 1133 01:01:18,133 --> 01:01:20,387 Somehow there was a message about pollution 1134 01:01:20,387 --> 01:01:21,762 from the way he was staring? 1135 01:01:21,762 --> 01:01:23,013 Yes. 1136 01:01:23,013 --> 01:01:28,937 I think they want, um, people to know 1137 01:01:28,937 --> 01:01:32,190 that we’re actually making harm on this world 1138 01:01:32,190 --> 01:01:34,275 and we mustn’t get too technologed. 1139 01:01:34,900 --> 01:01:36,860 How did that get communicated to you? 1140 01:01:36,902 --> 01:01:38,112 I don’t know. 1141 01:01:38,112 --> 01:01:39,322 But somehow it did? 1142 01:01:39,363 --> 01:01:41,240 Yeah. It came through my head. 1143 01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:42,492 Through your head? 1144 01:01:42,533 --> 01:01:44,952 Did it talk, like, through words or...? 1145 01:01:44,952 --> 01:01:46,370 My conscience, I think. Your what? 1146 01:01:46,370 --> 01:01:47,788 My conscience told me. 1147 01:01:47,788 --> 01:01:49,207 It came to you through your, your conscience told you. 1148 01:01:49,207 --> 01:01:50,542 Yeah. 1149 01:01:50,542 --> 01:01:52,585 You mean while you were in contact with the being, 1150 01:01:52,585 --> 01:01:53,837 you mean or what? 1151 01:01:53,837 --> 01:01:56,213 While I was... While the being was looking at me. 1152 01:01:56,213 --> 01:01:57,757 While it was looking at you. 1153 01:01:58,507 --> 01:02:00,843 It was like this lake of calmness in his eyes. 1154 01:02:01,468 --> 01:02:03,053 I was compelled to look at him. 1155 01:02:03,053 --> 01:02:06,515 It wasn’t like I, I wanted to look away from him. 1156 01:02:07,267 --> 01:02:11,353 Time became very still and very bizarre. 1157 01:02:12,105 --> 01:02:14,190 In my mind, technology... 1158 01:02:14,232 --> 01:02:17,485 and, and not, not good feelings about technology either. 1159 01:02:17,485 --> 01:02:20,362 It was like technology was a bad, dirty word. 1160 01:02:21,030 --> 01:02:24,367 I think that he was saying to me, beware of the technology. 1161 01:02:24,367 --> 01:02:25,785 Don’t go into it too heavy 1162 01:02:25,785 --> 01:02:28,162 because it’s, it’s not going to be good for you. 1163 01:02:29,038 --> 01:02:31,457 It was only when I was looking at him and his face 1164 01:02:31,498 --> 01:02:34,168 and his eyes that I got that. 1165 01:02:34,168 --> 01:02:35,587 As soon as I looked away from him, 1166 01:02:35,587 --> 01:02:37,588 that’s when all of reality and, 1167 01:02:37,588 --> 01:02:40,340 and everything that was happening came back to. 1168 01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:44,095 And that’s when I realized that something really strange 1169 01:02:44,137 --> 01:02:46,055 is happening here. 1170 01:02:46,055 --> 01:02:47,682 It's fascinating. 1171 01:02:48,307 --> 01:02:53,187 This was imagery coming through from them communication, 1172 01:02:53,228 --> 01:02:55,898 but it’s done through, right in your brain. 1173 01:02:58,358 --> 01:03:00,820 You, you were saying that you thought that they maybe 1174 01:03:00,820 --> 01:03:03,907 were trying to tell us something like, uh, about the future. 1175 01:03:03,907 --> 01:03:07,285 Can you say more of what your thought is? What was it like? 1176 01:03:07,285 --> 01:03:11,330 It was like on the world, all the trees will just go down 1177 01:03:11,330 --> 01:03:12,915 and, 1178 01:03:13,540 --> 01:03:16,252 and there were will be no air and people will be dying. 1179 01:03:16,835 --> 01:03:22,383 I think that in space there’s no love and down here there is. 1180 01:03:22,425 --> 01:03:23,843 There is love? Yes. 1181 01:03:23,843 --> 01:03:24,843 Mm hmm. 1182 01:03:27,638 --> 01:03:29,807 Is there anything we can do with that love, 1183 01:03:29,807 --> 01:03:31,642 as far as taking care of the earth? 1184 01:03:31,642 --> 01:03:35,353 You talked about the, that they, their message, 1185 01:03:35,353 --> 01:03:37,190 that we don’t take care of the earth. 1186 01:03:38,148 --> 01:03:40,067 No. Why not? 1187 01:03:40,735 --> 01:03:42,195 Several of them talked about, uh, 1188 01:03:42,237 --> 01:03:44,988 a message being transmitted through the eyes, 1189 01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:47,617 that the beings were trying to tell us something. 1190 01:03:47,617 --> 01:03:50,537 What gave that a certain edge of sincerity 1191 01:03:50,537 --> 01:03:52,622 was they weren’t offering solutions, 1192 01:03:52,622 --> 01:03:54,165 like we’ve got to become environmentally conscious 1193 01:03:54,165 --> 01:03:55,583 and, you know, do something about the earth. 1194 01:03:55,583 --> 01:03:57,000 So I’d say, "Well, what are we supposed to do?" 1195 01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:58,460 And they would say, "Well, no. 1196 01:03:58,460 --> 01:04:01,088 That’s not what they were doing, what they were conveying. 1197 01:04:01,088 --> 01:04:04,342 They, they were simply telling us that this is what’s going on 1198 01:04:04,342 --> 01:04:06,177 and they felt very upset about it." 1199 01:04:06,177 --> 01:04:08,930 But it wasn’t like a, you know, ecological, 1200 01:04:09,930 --> 01:04:11,598 uh, political program or something. 1201 01:04:11,598 --> 01:04:14,018 So that, that gave it this kind of authenticity. 1202 01:04:18,605 --> 01:04:21,067 At first no news coverage took it seriously. 1203 01:04:21,067 --> 01:04:24,153 And I leave you to check for little green men 1204 01:04:24,153 --> 01:04:25,613 and flying saucers and... 1205 01:04:25,613 --> 01:04:27,532 And then when Reuters got hold of it, it got very serious. 1206 01:04:27,532 --> 01:04:28,782 There was a bit of a buzz 1207 01:04:28,823 --> 01:04:30,702 and it was in the news and everything. 1208 01:04:30,702 --> 01:04:33,745 You had people that knew about the school from all over, 1209 01:04:34,205 --> 01:04:38,250 not just in Zimbabwe, but it was all over the world. 1210 01:04:43,838 --> 01:04:45,423 On the other side of the world, 1211 01:04:45,423 --> 01:04:48,510 an unusual visitor called into a Zimbabwean playground. 1212 01:04:49,137 --> 01:04:50,597 Unexplained Mysteries; 1213 01:04:50,597 --> 01:04:53,723 Something major has happened in Africa 1214 01:04:53,723 --> 01:04:56,477 a unique mass encounter between aliens 1215 01:04:56,477 --> 01:04:58,103 and school children. 1216 01:04:59,688 --> 01:05:02,190 Hello, welcome back. Someone who started off as a skeptic, 1217 01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:04,402 and you’re a Pulitzer prize winner and all the rest of it, 1218 01:05:04,402 --> 01:05:05,737 have actually been convinced 1219 01:05:05,737 --> 01:05:07,447 that the people you interviewed at great length 1220 01:05:07,447 --> 01:05:09,323 and talked to about their encounters with aliens, 1221 01:05:09,365 --> 01:05:10,783 they were actually telling the truth. 1222 01:05:10,783 --> 01:05:12,327 There is something out there trying to contact us. 1223 01:05:12,327 --> 01:05:13,868 Yeah, there’s some kind of authentic mystery here, 1224 01:05:13,868 --> 01:05:17,415 which my training in psychiatry just hasn’t prepared me for. 1225 01:05:17,415 --> 01:05:18,623 With all the skill that you have, 1226 01:05:18,623 --> 01:05:21,252 you’re a top American psychiatrist at Harvard–you 1227 01:05:21,252 --> 01:05:23,462 would be able to tell when people were telling fibs. 1228 01:05:23,462 --> 01:05:25,213 That’s what I’m supposed to be trained to do, 1229 01:05:25,213 --> 01:05:26,965 is to distinguish between fantasy, 1230 01:05:26,965 --> 01:05:30,052 dreams, psychosis, or authentic experience. 1231 01:05:30,052 --> 01:05:32,972 And this is, has all the marks of authentic experience. 1232 01:05:32,972 --> 01:05:34,723 So we just stared at it. 1233 01:05:34,723 --> 01:05:38,518 And we heard this flute, sort of like a flute noise. 1234 01:05:38,518 --> 01:05:42,690 Then I saw this black figure running in slow motion 1235 01:05:42,690 --> 01:05:45,442 and then I didn’t want to see it, so I looked away. 1236 01:05:45,483 --> 01:05:48,653 And I looked again and it wasn’t there anymore. 1237 01:05:48,653 --> 01:05:50,322 When you looked at those children, 1238 01:05:50,907 --> 01:05:56,662 they were absolutely credible. And you can look at their faces, 1239 01:05:56,828 --> 01:05:58,913 even on television you can look at their faces 1240 01:05:58,913 --> 01:06:00,875 and know if they’re bullshitting or not. 1241 01:06:00,917 --> 01:06:02,502 And they weren’t. 1242 01:06:03,043 --> 01:06:04,295 We came away convinced 1243 01:06:04,295 --> 01:06:06,713 that an extraordinary event occurred here. 1244 01:06:06,713 --> 01:06:09,842 Uh, one of, uh, quite unique, I think, in UFO history. 1245 01:06:10,802 --> 01:06:13,928 If there’s anything that could convince a skeptical, 1246 01:06:13,928 --> 01:06:17,558 closed-minded public that some kind of intelligence 1247 01:06:17,558 --> 01:06:19,685 that is not, as the headmaster said, 1248 01:06:19,685 --> 01:06:22,855 "of this world", than this event should persuade people. 1249 01:06:34,325 --> 01:06:39,163 I believe overall this is a phenomenon of enormous 1250 01:06:39,163 --> 01:06:43,083 complexity, meaning, and value for understanding of ourselves, 1251 01:06:43,083 --> 01:06:44,668 who we are in the universe. 1252 01:06:44,668 --> 01:06:47,253 And we’re just beginning to grasp what this is about. 1253 01:06:47,505 --> 01:06:48,963 Welcome back to Larry King Live. 1254 01:06:48,963 --> 01:06:51,758 He’s a Harvard psychiatrist and though he was once skeptical 1255 01:06:51,758 --> 01:06:53,385 that beings visited from other planets, 1256 01:06:53,385 --> 01:06:54,720 he now believes differently. 1257 01:06:55,178 --> 01:06:56,597 John Mack has been a psychiatrist 1258 01:06:56,597 --> 01:06:59,015 at Harvard University for more than 30 years now. 1259 01:06:59,015 --> 01:07:01,060 he won a Pulitzer Prize two decades ago 1260 01:07:01,060 --> 01:07:04,813 for writing a psychological biography of Lawrence of Arabia. 1261 01:07:04,813 --> 01:07:06,607 But these days his writings have placed him 1262 01:07:06,648 --> 01:07:08,233 on the academic fringe. 1263 01:07:08,233 --> 01:07:10,235 Meet Dr. John Mack, 1264 01:07:10,235 --> 01:07:13,655 a believer in aliens from outer space. 1265 01:07:13,655 --> 01:07:16,117 What would the academics up at Harvard University 1266 01:07:16,117 --> 01:07:17,702 think about all this? 1267 01:07:17,702 --> 01:07:21,080 We started to hear that John was getting to be in trouble. 1268 01:07:21,288 --> 01:07:23,748 His practice was beginning to be largely 1269 01:07:23,748 --> 01:07:26,627 about the investigation of these strange phenomena. 1270 01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:31,715 He had started support groups so that the various people 1271 01:07:31,715 --> 01:07:35,677 who had reported these strange phenomena 1272 01:07:35,677 --> 01:07:38,097 could hear the stories from each other 1273 01:07:38,097 --> 01:07:40,808 and begin to feel a little bit normal. 1274 01:07:40,808 --> 01:07:42,908 No matter how I looked at it, 1275 01:07:42,910 --> 01:07:45,145 they were talking the way people 1276 01:07:45,145 --> 01:07:47,815 talk about something that's happened to them. 1277 01:07:48,398 --> 01:07:49,983 I was stuck with this dilemma. 1278 01:07:49,983 --> 01:07:52,695 what do you do at that point? Do you say, Well, I’m sorry. 1279 01:07:52,695 --> 01:07:54,322 There’s got to be some kind of mental illness 1280 01:07:54,322 --> 01:07:55,948 I’ve ever heard of before? 1281 01:07:55,948 --> 01:07:59,033 Or do you say maybe what I thought was possible 1282 01:07:59,033 --> 01:08:00,410 wasn’t complete. 1283 01:08:00,452 --> 01:08:05,665 It seems to me it’s clinically and humanly more honest 1284 01:08:05,707 --> 01:08:08,793 to say there’s something I don’t know here 1285 01:08:08,793 --> 01:08:11,005 and to follow your clinical instincts. 1286 01:08:11,172 --> 01:08:15,008 What did you say? What did you tell your mom? 1287 01:08:15,843 --> 01:08:17,928 This is Kayleigh talking now. Go ahead. 1288 01:08:17,928 --> 01:08:21,182 I said, "Mummy, I saw an alien at school." 1289 01:08:21,182 --> 01:08:25,937 Then they, my mummy said, um, she, my mum never believed me. 1290 01:08:25,937 --> 01:08:29,063 Yeah? Does that upset you when your mom didn’t believe you? 1291 01:08:29,732 --> 01:08:31,692 Yeah. Sometimes. 1292 01:08:31,692 --> 01:08:33,068 Kayleigh! Hi! 1293 01:08:33,068 --> 01:08:34,653 Hi! How are you? 1294 01:08:34,653 --> 01:08:35,863 I’m good. How are you? 1295 01:08:35,863 --> 01:08:37,113 Good. 1296 01:08:37,113 --> 01:08:38,490 Oh, it’s so nice to see you. I know! 1297 01:08:38,532 --> 01:08:39,742 How does it feel? 1298 01:08:39,742 --> 01:08:40,910 It’s crazy. 1299 01:08:40,910 --> 01:08:42,160 Right? It is. 1300 01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:43,578 So do you want to take a little walk? 1301 01:08:43,578 --> 01:08:44,955 Oh, my gosh. And, I mean... 1302 01:08:44,955 --> 01:08:47,040 I know, we have to look. OK, let’s look. 1303 01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,627 OK. I was trying to find mine. 1304 01:08:49,668 --> 01:08:52,755 And I’ve been looking to find all my pieces 1305 01:08:52,755 --> 01:08:55,173 because I don’t have my drawings as well. 1306 01:08:55,173 --> 01:08:56,675 See, like these ones you can’t see. 1307 01:08:56,675 --> 01:08:59,303 I know! That’s why I’m like, oh. 1308 01:08:59,845 --> 01:09:02,973 Right? It’s not here. 1309 01:09:02,973 --> 01:09:05,058 Well, we could keep going. 1310 01:09:05,100 --> 01:09:07,143 Tell me what you remember. 1311 01:09:08,228 --> 01:09:09,980 See, I was playing rugby over here. 1312 01:09:10,730 --> 01:09:13,358 In this open part over here. With the little boys. 1313 01:09:13,358 --> 01:09:14,610 Yeah. 1314 01:09:14,610 --> 01:09:16,320 And then all the logs were down there. 1315 01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:17,988 Were all here. 1316 01:09:19,573 --> 01:09:22,618 I don’t know why I remember a huge tree like this down there. 1317 01:09:22,618 --> 01:09:25,037 Because that was, that field wasn’t there. 1318 01:09:27,372 --> 01:09:31,460 This is where I kind of remember it happening. 1319 01:09:33,170 --> 01:09:34,755 Like standing over there. 1320 01:09:35,422 --> 01:09:38,300 I then ran, I must have run there, closer to... 1321 01:09:38,300 --> 01:09:40,760 I remember being close to the tuck shop. 1322 01:09:41,803 --> 01:09:43,472 Well, that’s why, I remember right here. 1323 01:09:43,472 --> 01:09:45,515 And I remember Lisil and I right there. 1324 01:09:46,100 --> 01:09:49,937 So it must be there. And, yeah. 1325 01:09:49,937 --> 01:09:51,647 Emily! 1326 01:09:51,647 --> 01:09:52,898 Yes 1327 01:09:52,898 --> 01:09:54,817 Ms. Bates found some of the drawings. 1328 01:09:54,817 --> 01:09:56,110 Ms. Bates found some of the drawings? 1329 01:09:56,110 --> 01:09:57,402 They’re in an envelop on the desk. 1330 01:09:57,402 --> 01:09:59,280 Oh! 1331 01:09:59,655 --> 01:10:01,448 Up in the office there. 1332 01:10:01,448 --> 01:10:04,200 But I think there’s been such a runaround this morning. 1333 01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,162 They’re trying to do things. 1334 01:10:06,162 --> 01:10:07,705 They just let us know they’re there. 1335 01:10:07,705 --> 01:10:09,248 Oh, how exciting. Right? 1336 01:10:10,958 --> 01:10:12,292 I hope mine’s there. 1337 01:10:12,292 --> 01:10:13,877 I, I really hope mine’s there, too. 1338 01:10:13,877 --> 01:10:15,212 I think they’re both there. 1339 01:10:15,212 --> 01:10:17,297 I haven’t opened anything. I haven’t looked. 1340 01:10:18,465 --> 01:10:22,762 Oh, my gosh. You must be kidding me! 1341 01:10:23,678 --> 01:10:25,932 I’m scared. 1342 01:10:25,932 --> 01:10:27,808 I’m kind of scared, too. 1343 01:10:27,808 --> 01:10:30,018 You don’t have to be scared. 1344 01:10:30,018 --> 01:10:32,478 OK, you open it with me. Open it together. 1345 01:10:33,397 --> 01:10:34,732 We’ll do it together. 1346 01:10:35,773 --> 01:10:38,443 Let’s take a peek. 1347 01:10:46,035 --> 01:10:47,620 Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! 1348 01:10:47,620 --> 01:10:49,162 You see, I’m sure... 1349 01:10:49,162 --> 01:10:53,708 You can’t see it very nice, but I’m sure this was the tree. 1350 01:10:54,502 --> 01:10:56,337 I’ve drawn this again. 1351 01:10:58,005 --> 01:11:01,717 Like, like, exactly like this. 1352 01:11:03,052 --> 01:11:04,970 You see silver shining as well. 1353 01:11:04,970 --> 01:11:06,222 Uh huh. 1354 01:11:06,222 --> 01:11:08,598 I mean, I said I saw, like, a crazy light. 1355 01:11:08,598 --> 01:11:14,980 Oh, my gosh! With this coming down. 1356 01:11:17,107 --> 01:11:20,360 I think I blocked out a lot, man. 1357 01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:22,070 You remember, and like we keep saying, like, 1358 01:11:22,070 --> 01:11:24,197 I think we blocked out a lot. 1359 01:11:24,197 --> 01:11:29,953 I really do as well. Yeah. Holy shit! 1360 01:11:33,498 --> 01:11:35,375 Wow! 1361 01:11:35,375 --> 01:11:38,295 I know. Think it a lot of people, like, didn’t believe us. 1362 01:11:47,178 --> 01:11:51,892 It’s beautiful. It’s so peaceful. 1363 01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,480 Yes. I have the best memories here. 1364 01:11:57,480 --> 01:11:59,065 Me, too. Of us. 1365 01:12:00,525 --> 01:12:02,152 I’ve been so terrible. 1366 01:12:02,152 --> 01:12:03,403 Well, Ms. Bates is, she wants... 1367 01:12:03,445 --> 01:12:04,697 So terrible. 1368 01:12:04,697 --> 01:12:06,198 ...she wants to see you. 1369 01:12:06,198 --> 01:12:07,992 She’s a, she’s a little hurt because she feels like... 1370 01:12:07,992 --> 01:12:09,242 I know. 1371 01:12:09,283 --> 01:12:10,577 ...the students have avoided this place 1372 01:12:10,577 --> 01:12:11,828 for a such a long time. 1373 01:12:11,828 --> 01:12:13,330 Well, you see, that’s the thing, is, like... 1374 01:12:13,330 --> 01:12:14,540 I know. 1375 01:12:14,540 --> 01:12:15,748 ...what happened. 1376 01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:17,083 I know. 1377 01:12:17,083 --> 01:12:18,835 I think that’s why I’ve never come back. 1378 01:12:18,835 --> 01:12:20,128 I don’t want to deal with... 1379 01:12:20,128 --> 01:12:21,380 Deal with it. 1380 01:12:21,380 --> 01:12:23,632 ...coming here and remembering all the stuff. 1381 01:12:23,632 --> 01:12:25,008 I think that’s honest, 1382 01:12:25,008 --> 01:12:26,927 the honest God’s truth of why I didn’t come. 1383 01:12:26,927 --> 01:12:30,763 Yeah. So 20 years later... 1384 01:12:33,975 --> 01:12:35,560 We still have the same story. 1385 01:12:36,603 --> 01:12:38,522 But that’s the funny thing, is, like, I’m adamant 1386 01:12:38,522 --> 01:12:42,442 about this tree and the light. And there on my picture, 1387 01:12:42,483 --> 01:12:45,445 which I don’t even remember drawing, it’s there! 1388 01:12:45,445 --> 01:12:47,488 It’s there! And I drew that. 1389 01:12:50,283 --> 01:12:52,035 I can’t wait to show my mum. 1390 01:12:54,830 --> 01:12:56,790 You have to see it to believe it. 1391 01:12:56,790 --> 01:12:58,667 If, if somebody’s a staunch believer that it’s not, 1392 01:13:00,002 --> 01:13:01,587 how is me 1393 01:13:01,587 --> 01:13:04,213 telling them my experience going to change what they think? 1394 01:13:04,213 --> 01:13:05,882 It will change what they think about me. 1395 01:13:05,882 --> 01:13:08,177 It’s not going to change what they think about the universe. 1396 01:13:08,177 --> 01:13:09,928 And I don’t need that. 1397 01:13:09,928 --> 01:13:13,515 But with 60 of us all saying it together, 1398 01:13:14,015 --> 01:13:17,060 that will change what that one person thinks of the universe. 1399 01:13:23,858 --> 01:13:26,153 Many of you are going to think my guests today 1400 01:13:26,153 --> 01:13:27,905 have lost their minds 1401 01:13:28,072 --> 01:13:32,283 To be honest, their stories do sounds really crazy. 1402 01:13:32,283 --> 01:13:34,787 But we were intrigued by this man. 1403 01:13:34,787 --> 01:13:38,415 He is Dr. John Mack, who does believe their stories. 1404 01:13:38,415 --> 01:13:41,835 The president’s lawyer said, "What do you think it’s like 1405 01:13:41,835 --> 01:13:43,420 for the dean for the medical school 1406 01:13:43,462 --> 01:13:46,757 to see one of his professors on Oprah Winfrey 1407 01:13:46,757 --> 01:13:48,050 saying that men, women, 1408 01:13:48,050 --> 01:13:50,468 and children are being taken by little green men?" 1409 01:13:51,345 --> 01:13:56,642 It does reflect, I think, the anxiety that this caused. 1410 01:13:56,975 --> 01:13:58,602 Doctor, is the profession embarrassed 1411 01:13:58,602 --> 01:14:01,605 when one of your colleagues puts forward theories like this? 1412 01:14:01,605 --> 01:14:03,607 Oh, yes. We’re very embarrassed. 1413 01:14:03,607 --> 01:14:05,025 Embarrassed for the profession 1414 01:14:05,025 --> 01:14:07,777 and a little worried about John himself. 1415 01:14:07,777 --> 01:14:09,153 What? He’s gone of the rails a bit? 1416 01:14:09,195 --> 01:14:13,575 Well, John is a man of great gift and great intelligence, 1417 01:14:13,575 --> 01:14:15,118 but he’s also a man of, 1418 01:14:15,118 --> 01:14:16,953 who tends to take on enthusiasms. 1419 01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:20,165 And this times he’s gone, yeah, gone too far. 1420 01:14:20,165 --> 01:14:21,542 We’re worried about him. 1421 01:14:21,542 --> 01:14:25,503 We hope he’ll pull himself together, come back. 1422 01:14:27,463 --> 01:14:31,760 I sensed that I ought to try to get ahead of the curl on, 1423 01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:33,970 on the high exposure that I had. 1424 01:14:34,513 --> 01:14:35,888 But I was too late. 1425 01:14:35,888 --> 01:14:38,350 There was something afoot. 1426 01:14:38,892 --> 01:14:41,102 They were putting together a committee 1427 01:14:41,102 --> 01:14:45,815 to look into the work and see if I had maintained 1428 01:14:45,815 --> 01:14:48,318 the standards of the Harvard Medical School. 1429 01:14:49,653 --> 01:14:52,238 I am, uh, Arnold Relman. 1430 01:14:52,238 --> 01:14:53,823 I am a physician. 1431 01:14:54,658 --> 01:14:57,327 I was asked by the dean of the Harvard Medical School 1432 01:14:57,327 --> 01:15:01,748 to look into John’s activities in view of all the publicity 1433 01:15:01,748 --> 01:15:05,335 and the fact that John was using the Harvard Medical School’s 1434 01:15:05,335 --> 01:15:06,920 name quite liberally, 1435 01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:08,547 and implied the Harvard Medical School 1436 01:15:08,547 --> 01:15:11,007 was somehow sponsoring what he was doing, 1437 01:15:11,007 --> 01:15:13,468 the dean wanted to know, what is he doing? 1438 01:15:14,762 --> 01:15:17,305 His research is shattering preconceptions 1439 01:15:17,305 --> 01:15:18,848 about alien abductions. 1440 01:15:18,890 --> 01:15:21,893 He’s studied over 100 people and is convinced 1441 01:15:21,893 --> 01:15:23,270 they are telling the truth. 1442 01:15:23,270 --> 01:15:24,688 John, you have a very high profile. 1443 01:15:24,730 --> 01:15:26,940 And the fact that you’re a professor at Harvard tends 1444 01:15:26,940 --> 01:15:28,317 to make people believe you. 1445 01:15:28,358 --> 01:15:30,110 And do you think you could be seriously misleading people 1446 01:15:30,110 --> 01:15:31,820 about what’s going on here? 1447 01:15:31,820 --> 01:15:37,867 The concern is what is his relationship to the subjects? 1448 01:15:37,867 --> 01:15:42,705 Is their psychological welfare being protected? 1449 01:15:43,582 --> 01:15:48,420 And is this a violation of medical standards? 1450 01:16:11,277 --> 01:16:13,028 I miss this place so much. 1451 01:16:13,653 --> 01:16:16,407 You know, just after talking to Ms. Hwacha 1452 01:16:16,448 --> 01:16:18,867 and, you know, just kids and the school. 1453 01:16:18,867 --> 01:16:20,368 Because we were listening to music. 1454 01:16:20,368 --> 01:16:21,662 And the music in the... 1455 01:16:21,662 --> 01:16:25,248 You tear up. I’m like, what’s going on? 1456 01:16:26,917 --> 01:16:29,127 It’s a horrible feeling to feel alone. 1457 01:16:31,253 --> 01:16:33,923 But you've got us now. You’ve got the whole Ariel 1458 01:16:33,923 --> 01:16:36,968 family, like, everybody’s there, like, looking out for you. 1459 01:16:36,968 --> 01:16:39,387 Tracy said he’ll be on the other side. 1460 01:16:39,387 --> 01:16:42,473 And everybody’s there for you. Everybody’s looking out for you. 1461 01:16:44,852 --> 01:16:47,728 God, I needed that, you know, so badly. 1462 01:16:55,278 --> 01:16:59,240 They forget that there’s a human being behind all of this 1463 01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,410 and nobody asked for it to happen. 1464 01:18:25,243 --> 01:18:26,828 There’s Lisil. 1465 01:18:26,828 --> 01:18:31,750 Lisil, Fungai, Grant. I remember her, too. 1466 01:18:33,710 --> 01:18:36,253 I remember the face, but I don’t remember the name. 1467 01:18:43,678 --> 01:18:46,180 There are many people who probably are not going 1468 01:18:46,180 --> 01:18:47,848 to believe certain things 1469 01:18:47,848 --> 01:18:50,268 until they happen to them, period. 1470 01:18:51,478 --> 01:18:54,605 That probably is even more pronounced in the West 1471 01:18:54,647 --> 01:18:56,232 compared to many other cultures 1472 01:18:57,608 --> 01:19:01,112 because we have advanced so far technologically, 1473 01:19:01,112 --> 01:19:03,448 because our technology, which is, you know, 1474 01:19:03,448 --> 01:19:06,993 based in science is so dramatically powerful 1475 01:19:06,993 --> 01:19:09,620 that people start thinking that must be all there is. 1476 01:19:11,205 --> 01:19:15,002 A lot of the criticism about John and John’s work 1477 01:19:15,710 --> 01:19:19,547 pre-supposed that it was simply impossible 1478 01:19:20,132 --> 01:19:22,717 that people could be visited by aliens, 1479 01:19:22,717 --> 01:19:24,135 that aliens even exist, 1480 01:19:24,677 --> 01:19:29,390 To reduce knowledge of reality to purely the physical world, 1481 01:19:29,390 --> 01:19:34,020 what about the whole emotional world, the spiritual world. 1482 01:19:34,020 --> 01:19:35,938 When you go into subatomic reality, 1483 01:19:35,980 --> 01:19:37,273 there is not material world. 1484 01:19:37,273 --> 01:19:39,985 There’s only possibility and probability. 1485 01:19:39,985 --> 01:19:43,238 The new findings in physics, if you take them seriously, 1486 01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:46,240 are just as undermining of the dominant worldview 1487 01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,993 as anything I’m talking about. 1488 01:19:48,993 --> 01:19:50,328 Baloney! 1489 01:19:50,328 --> 01:19:52,580 Old-fashioned physics, new-fashioned physics, 1490 01:19:52,580 --> 01:19:54,707 quantum mechanics, string theory, 1491 01:19:54,707 --> 01:19:56,208 you got to have evidence. 1492 01:19:56,208 --> 01:19:58,628 You have to be able to measure something. 1493 01:19:58,628 --> 01:20:04,467 I am morally and virtually certain 1494 01:20:05,552 --> 01:20:07,137 that what we’re dealing with 1495 01:20:07,137 --> 01:20:11,432 is some kind of internal psychological phenomenon. 1496 01:20:11,432 --> 01:20:13,935 It is inconceivable to me 1497 01:20:13,935 --> 01:20:16,647 that these people are being abducted by aliens. 1498 01:20:16,647 --> 01:20:17,938 If they were, 1499 01:20:17,938 --> 01:20:21,568 then the whole world as we know it is upside down. 1500 01:20:23,237 --> 01:20:26,823 Harvard University was the kind of global champion 1501 01:20:26,823 --> 01:20:29,408 of the classical liberal worldview. 1502 01:20:30,368 --> 01:20:34,455 And that he was trying to propose an alternative worldview 1503 01:20:34,455 --> 01:20:37,667 with the reality of extra-terrestrial intelligence. 1504 01:20:39,335 --> 01:20:42,255 A worldview is a kind of psychic glue. 1505 01:20:42,963 --> 01:20:44,548 It sort of orients you. 1506 01:20:45,175 --> 01:20:47,385 It’s what allows people to think they know 1507 01:20:47,385 --> 01:20:50,638 who they are in the worlds that matter to us, family, 1508 01:20:51,305 --> 01:20:54,267 groups that we’re in, institutions, schools. 1509 01:20:57,145 --> 01:20:59,647 What’s possible is a matter of worldview. 1510 01:21:00,565 --> 01:21:02,317 A culture decides what’s real. 1511 01:21:02,317 --> 01:21:04,402 What’s real in this culture is completely different 1512 01:21:04,402 --> 01:21:06,362 than what’s true in other cultures. 1513 01:21:09,950 --> 01:21:13,328 I really think human egoism in the broadest sense 1514 01:21:13,328 --> 01:21:14,955 is what is at stake, 1515 01:21:15,663 --> 01:21:18,583 our sense of value, our sense of who we are. 1516 01:21:18,583 --> 01:21:22,962 Are we powerful, are we in charge of our own fate. 1517 01:21:24,380 --> 01:21:28,718 Freud said there’s three big blows to human egoism. 1518 01:21:28,718 --> 01:21:34,015 And the first was the discovery by Copernicus and Galileo 1519 01:21:34,015 --> 01:21:37,768 that the Earth was not at the center of the cosmos. 1520 01:21:37,810 --> 01:21:42,565 Second was Darwin’s finding that we’re not particularly different 1521 01:21:42,565 --> 01:21:46,485 from the other animal species. Freud claimed his was the third, 1522 01:21:46,485 --> 01:21:50,282 that we’re not really in charge of our own individual lives. 1523 01:21:50,282 --> 01:21:52,658 And this, I think, could be a fourth. 1524 01:21:52,658 --> 01:21:55,203 We’re far from being the most intelligent 1525 01:21:55,203 --> 01:21:58,415 or advanced creatures in the cosmos. 1526 01:22:04,878 --> 01:22:08,300 I think in the broad scheme of things, 1527 01:22:09,175 --> 01:22:12,053 it’s not a socially good thing to do. 1528 01:22:12,053 --> 01:22:15,640 It promotes the cult of mysticism 1529 01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,768 and magic and superstition. 1530 01:22:18,810 --> 01:22:21,062 You know, the X-File kind of mentality. 1531 01:22:21,062 --> 01:22:23,398 They’re, they’re out there and the government won’t, 1532 01:22:23,398 --> 01:22:25,650 won’t let us find out about it. 1533 01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:27,860 It’s childish. 1534 01:22:27,860 --> 01:22:30,530 And it’s not good for the American public. 1535 01:22:33,367 --> 01:22:35,643 Why should this be so remarkable 1536 01:22:35,645 --> 01:22:37,787 when we claim to believe in God 1537 01:22:37,787 --> 01:22:39,247 and all kinds of spirits, 1538 01:22:39,288 --> 01:22:42,458 and yet there’s something about this one which takes a form 1539 01:22:42,458 --> 01:22:44,627 that is particularly disturbing to us? 1540 01:22:45,628 --> 01:22:47,463 There’s a lot of harrumphing that goes on. 1541 01:22:47,505 --> 01:22:50,592 "Well, we don’t really want to be identified 1542 01:22:50,633 --> 01:22:52,427 with this kind of science. 1543 01:22:52,427 --> 01:22:56,263 It’s OK to be identified with other bizarre views 1544 01:22:56,263 --> 01:23:00,602 that might emanate. But we have our limits, too." 1545 01:23:00,602 --> 01:23:03,397 Remember, we’re a university that has a divinity school. 1546 01:23:04,272 --> 01:23:06,357 We know the boundaries. 1547 01:23:06,357 --> 01:23:09,943 Theology is OK, but extra-terrestrials, no. 1548 01:23:09,943 --> 01:23:12,155 Angels, yes. Extra-terrestrials, no. 1549 01:23:15,950 --> 01:23:19,245 Let’s just sit down and rationally, 1550 01:23:19,245 --> 01:23:20,913 objectively talk it through, 1551 01:23:20,913 --> 01:23:23,500 because there’s a lot we don’t understand. 1552 01:23:24,542 --> 01:23:27,878 there’s a lot we worship in our various religions 1553 01:23:29,005 --> 01:23:31,758 that’s meaningful and inexplicable. 1554 01:23:33,968 --> 01:23:36,387 You can’t just rule stuff out willy-nilly 1555 01:23:36,387 --> 01:23:41,392 because there is a magical side of life that is very precious. 1556 01:23:44,437 --> 01:23:46,272 I’m a Christian in my beliefs, 1557 01:23:46,272 --> 01:23:48,525 but that doesn’t mean to say that I think, 1558 01:23:48,567 --> 01:23:50,152 um, there’s no other types of, 1559 01:23:50,735 --> 01:23:53,028 or forms of life that exist in the universe. 1560 01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:58,283 There is a God, but there’s also other things around 1561 01:23:59,327 --> 01:24:01,287 that can’t be explained. 1562 01:24:01,287 --> 01:24:05,250 You know? It’s, it’s another creature. 1563 01:24:07,210 --> 01:24:09,003 They teach you there’s no such things as aliens 1564 01:24:09,003 --> 01:24:11,505 because, I mean, God created just human beings. 1565 01:24:11,505 --> 01:24:14,592 That’s what I was taught; that’s what I grew up thinking. 1566 01:24:14,592 --> 01:24:17,428 The universe is so big so I can’t completely say 1567 01:24:17,428 --> 01:24:18,972 it’s fact that there’s no such thing 1568 01:24:18,972 --> 01:24:21,850 as life outside of Earth’s solar system. 1569 01:24:22,558 --> 01:24:24,143 The universe is a beautiful, strange place 1570 01:24:24,143 --> 01:24:27,355 and we’re just human beings and we can’t know everything. 1571 01:24:29,648 --> 01:24:32,235 Maybe we don’t have the capacity to understand it. 1572 01:24:33,193 --> 01:24:38,282 We may be just exploring the limited reaches of space. 1573 01:24:39,658 --> 01:24:43,455 Beyond that we absolutely know nothing in terms of life 1574 01:24:43,455 --> 01:24:46,248 or how life exists elsewhere. 1575 01:24:47,292 --> 01:24:49,793 Maybe it’s too disturbing. 1576 01:24:53,130 --> 01:24:56,633 In the beginning of my going public with this, 1577 01:24:56,633 --> 01:25:01,347 I received absolutely no general acceptance. 1578 01:25:01,347 --> 01:25:04,100 There were no particular advantages to be gained 1579 01:25:04,100 --> 01:25:05,935 and every disadvantage. 1580 01:25:05,935 --> 01:25:08,522 And there were assaults from every direction 1581 01:25:08,522 --> 01:25:11,065 in terms of the main part of my profession. 1582 01:25:12,608 --> 01:25:13,902 If it was an opportunity, 1583 01:25:13,902 --> 01:25:16,612 it was an opportunity to commit professional suicide. 1584 01:25:18,447 --> 01:25:20,032 It’s a dirty subject. 1585 01:25:21,075 --> 01:25:23,327 If you want to sustain a career in the BBC 1586 01:25:23,368 --> 01:25:25,663 after having been in many war zones, 1587 01:25:26,455 --> 01:25:29,167 you don’t suddenly come up with a UFO story 1588 01:25:30,125 --> 01:25:32,253 which was absolutely waterproof. 1589 01:25:33,170 --> 01:25:37,133 Then they just said, "No. Tim’s suffering from the stress 1590 01:25:37,133 --> 01:25:39,052 and the strains of all the war zones he’s done. 1591 01:25:39,093 --> 01:25:42,055 He’s lost the plot. He’s gone bonkers." 1592 01:25:43,598 --> 01:25:49,770 I think that’s when my career with the BBC ended. 1593 01:25:51,730 --> 01:25:56,818 Gone. I think I, I, I lost my credibility, 1594 01:25:56,862 --> 01:25:59,280 because you don’t talk about these things. 1595 01:26:05,662 --> 01:26:06,872 When I was in residency, 1596 01:26:06,872 --> 01:26:10,250 John’s office was on the main floor 1597 01:26:10,250 --> 01:26:12,918 of the psychiatric wing. 1598 01:26:12,918 --> 01:26:14,878 When I came back in 2004 1599 01:26:14,878 --> 01:26:17,382 his office was offsite. 1600 01:26:17,382 --> 01:26:19,967 And I actually took that as a sort of metaphor 1601 01:26:19,967 --> 01:26:24,138 for him being pushed out and extruded in a certain sense. 1602 01:26:25,557 --> 01:26:29,352 Finally the dean of the medical school wrote a letter 1603 01:26:29,893 --> 01:26:34,648 to John basically apologizing and saying that they were, 1604 01:26:34,690 --> 01:26:37,777 that it was unfortunate that he had misconstrued 1605 01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:40,447 what it was that they were trying to do. 1606 01:26:40,988 --> 01:26:45,033 And as I say, and reiterated this totally foolish position 1607 01:26:45,033 --> 01:26:47,703 that they had that all the dean was trying to do 1608 01:26:47,703 --> 01:26:51,582 was to get some information so he could respond to calls 1609 01:26:51,582 --> 01:26:53,083 that he was getting. 1610 01:26:53,083 --> 01:26:55,545 And so that they ended up dropping the entire thing 1611 01:26:56,212 --> 01:26:57,672 and letting him go back 1612 01:26:57,672 --> 01:26:59,965 to doing his normal work at the university. 1613 01:27:01,342 --> 01:27:05,095 I accept, Dr. Mack’s statements at face value. 1614 01:27:05,095 --> 01:27:08,850 He is inquiring and probing and he has the right to be wrong. 1615 01:27:08,850 --> 01:27:12,895 The most fundamental right that any academic has 1616 01:27:12,895 --> 01:27:17,650 is the right to be wrong. Prove that he’s wrong. 1617 01:27:17,650 --> 01:27:19,360 That’s the job of other academics. 1618 01:27:20,862 --> 01:27:23,990 He became the iconic figure of someone 1619 01:27:24,032 --> 01:27:26,783 from inside a major institution 1620 01:27:26,783 --> 01:27:29,203 who was willing to take the risks 1621 01:27:29,203 --> 01:27:32,665 and pay the consequences for what he believed in. 1622 01:27:33,917 --> 01:27:38,295 My respect for Dr. John Mack for his courage, 1623 01:27:38,295 --> 01:27:40,798 for the difficulties that he’s undergone. 1624 01:27:40,798 --> 01:27:44,843 And I think any human being would have to admit 1625 01:27:44,843 --> 01:27:47,055 that if the UFO phenomenon 1626 01:27:47,097 --> 01:27:49,932 is occurring as the reports suggest, 1627 01:27:49,932 --> 01:27:52,602 it’s the most important event in human history. 1628 01:28:35,060 --> 01:28:38,230 We’re going to Canada with you. 1629 01:28:38,230 --> 01:28:40,608 We can fit in one suitcase! 1630 01:28:42,235 --> 01:28:43,987 I’m going to miss you when you go. 1631 01:28:43,987 --> 01:28:45,988 You’re going to miss me when I go? 1632 01:28:45,988 --> 01:28:47,240 Yes! 1633 01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:49,325 Oh, my gosh! I’m going to miss all of you! 1634 01:28:51,618 --> 01:28:53,788 I really thank you for everything. 1635 01:28:53,788 --> 01:28:56,207 I know, I felt so welcome here. 1636 01:28:57,042 --> 01:28:58,960 We do our best. Yes. 1637 01:29:00,962 --> 01:29:04,715 Healing process, eh? Come on, you’ll be fine. 1638 01:29:04,757 --> 01:29:07,843 I know. Absolutely fine. 1639 01:30:06,568 --> 01:30:08,237 Mommy! 1640 01:30:16,578 --> 01:30:19,457 It’s a very precious thing to me, 1641 01:30:20,332 --> 01:30:22,418 to be able to have this drawing again 1642 01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:28,173 and look at it and say after 21 years 1643 01:30:28,173 --> 01:30:31,052 I’m still depicting it exactly the same way 1644 01:30:31,802 --> 01:30:34,097 and I can put it with the rest of them. 1645 01:30:35,263 --> 01:30:39,185 I have probably over 300 pieces and it started here. 1646 01:30:43,982 --> 01:30:47,527 I don’t know what it means for me further down the road, 1647 01:30:48,110 --> 01:30:49,695 but I feel more confident. 1648 01:30:50,738 --> 01:30:54,825 It’s a stepping stone forward to go out, show my art, 1649 01:30:54,867 --> 01:30:57,745 share my story, and feel good about it. 1650 01:31:00,748 --> 01:31:03,333 With my family, they’ve been extremely supportive 1651 01:31:03,333 --> 01:31:05,335 throughout this whole thing. And they’ve understood 1652 01:31:05,335 --> 01:31:07,922 that this is something that I’ve had to go through. 1653 01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:11,717 My mother has started speaking a bit about it. 1654 01:31:14,012 --> 01:31:18,057 My father for the first time at the dinner table brought it up. 1655 01:31:18,682 --> 01:31:22,395 But I don’t know if this is something 1656 01:31:22,395 --> 01:31:26,940 that they’ll ever be able to accept completely, 1657 01:31:26,940 --> 01:31:30,528 but I know that they love me and they trust me. 1658 01:31:31,487 --> 01:31:34,907 They know because they were there that something happened. 1659 01:31:53,592 --> 01:31:56,678 I’d like to introduce to you, Emily Trim, 1660 01:31:56,678 --> 01:32:01,017 one of the witnesses at Ruwa, Zimbabwe, in 1994. 1661 01:32:10,860 --> 01:32:13,278 "That was the day my world shattered. 1662 01:32:14,697 --> 01:32:16,032 And my outlook on the world 1663 01:32:16,032 --> 01:32:18,242 became something completely brand new to me. 1664 01:32:19,618 --> 01:32:21,870 I’m thankful for going through such a process 1665 01:32:21,912 --> 01:32:25,207 and a journey in life which has led me to discover, 1666 01:32:25,875 --> 01:32:27,793 look deeper into the meanings of things, 1667 01:32:27,793 --> 01:32:29,378 and become more self-aware. 1668 01:32:30,545 --> 01:32:33,507 And I appreciate you taking the time to allow me to speak 1669 01:32:34,300 --> 01:32:37,052 and thank you for your understanding in something 1670 01:32:37,052 --> 01:32:38,595 so very personal." 1671 01:32:56,780 --> 01:32:59,450 I don’t know why it had to be Ruwa, 1672 01:33:00,492 --> 01:33:04,497 a small, rural, farming town. I truly don’t. 1673 01:33:06,915 --> 01:33:11,920 But for whatever reason, it did. It, it happened. 1674 01:33:14,882 --> 01:33:16,550 I’d like to know what we’d seen 1675 01:33:16,550 --> 01:33:19,970 and find out what it wanted. 1676 01:33:21,055 --> 01:33:24,308 Why us? Why us kids? You know? 1677 01:33:27,268 --> 01:33:29,688 It was a wonderful experience actually, 1678 01:33:30,397 --> 01:33:31,815 because I know definitely 1679 01:33:31,815 --> 01:33:34,277 I’m not going to see something like that ever again. 1680 01:33:34,277 --> 01:33:35,862 Maybe. Who knows? 1681 01:33:36,945 --> 01:33:40,282 And it’s something that I will pass on to my kids one day. 1682 01:33:43,702 --> 01:33:46,163 They might be just here as observers. 1683 01:33:48,582 --> 01:33:51,668 We’re just an interesting part of the local community, 1684 01:33:51,710 --> 01:33:55,088 like we go to safari in Africa 1685 01:33:55,088 --> 01:33:57,967 or see this other creature that is unique to that world. 1686 01:34:05,850 --> 01:34:07,810 For some people it is scary, very scary, 1687 01:34:07,810 --> 01:34:12,357 because it kind of makes them feel humanity 1688 01:34:12,398 --> 01:34:15,358 is not in complete control of our destinies 1689 01:34:16,652 --> 01:34:19,363 and we think we are the dominant species on the planet. 1690 01:34:19,488 --> 01:34:21,782 But maybe, maybe we are the dominant species on the planet, 1691 01:34:21,782 --> 01:34:23,283 but maybe not the dominant species 1692 01:34:23,283 --> 01:34:24,868 in this corner of the universe. 1693 01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:29,957 I think it’s certainly open-minded. 1694 01:34:29,957 --> 01:34:33,585 I think it’s a bit arrogant to say that we are the only life 1695 01:34:33,585 --> 01:34:35,503 in the galaxy or the universe. 1696 01:34:36,380 --> 01:34:39,550 Yeah, I think it’s good to speak about it, speak about it. 1697 01:34:40,092 --> 01:34:43,470 If there was one experience I’d like to relive, 1698 01:34:43,470 --> 01:34:45,848 it would be that particular experience. 1699 01:34:47,182 --> 01:34:49,268 I don’t really say "I swear, man! It was there!" 1700 01:34:49,268 --> 01:34:50,560 That sort of thing, you know? 1701 01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:52,103 Like, you don’t have to believe me. 1702 01:34:52,103 --> 01:34:53,355 I’m sure a lot of people 1703 01:34:53,355 --> 01:34:55,440 who’ve seen it barely believe themselves. 1704 01:34:56,692 --> 01:34:58,693 I don’t think that the answer’s out there. 1705 01:34:58,693 --> 01:35:02,948 I don’t think that I’m going to find an answer from Googling it 1706 01:35:02,990 --> 01:35:05,283 or from talking to others about it. 1707 01:35:05,283 --> 01:35:09,997 I think it’s a, it’s a, it’s a long story, is the answer. 1708 01:35:09,997 --> 01:35:13,542 I think the answer will come maybe in this lifetime, 1709 01:35:13,542 --> 01:35:15,627 maybe in the next. I don’t know. 1710 01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:22,383 I’m glad I was there. It really stretched my mind 1711 01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:28,932 and gave me a new perspective on life, the universe, 1712 01:35:28,932 --> 01:35:30,683 and everything, really. 1713 01:35:30,683 --> 01:35:32,812 I would not have missed that for the world. 1714 01:35:35,857 --> 01:35:37,442 That’s all I can say. 1715 01:37:40,188 --> 01:37:41,565 Would you like to see him again? 1716 01:37:42,148 --> 01:37:42,858 Yes. 1717 01:37:42,858 --> 01:37:44,443 You would like to see him again. 1718 01:37:44,693 --> 01:37:46,862 And if you saw him again, what would you do? 1719 01:37:47,445 --> 01:37:49,030 I’ll ask him some questions. 1720 01:37:49,030 --> 01:37:51,158 What would you like to ask him? 1721 01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:53,660 I’ll ask him what is he doing on earth 1722 01:37:53,660 --> 01:37:55,412 and what does he want with us?