Wrong. The children immediately began screaming and ran to the school. There was simply no time to make anything up:
"The smaller children were very frightened and cried for help. They believed that the little man was a demon who would eat them. Black African children have heard legends of tokoloshis, demons who eat children. The children ran to the tuck shop operator, but she did not want to leave the shop unattended and so did not go.
The late Cynthia Hind, known as Africa's foremost UFO investigator, investigated the case the next day. When she was first contacted, she asked the headmaster of the school, Colin Mackie, to have the children draw pictures of what they had seen. When she arrived at the school, he had about 35 drawings for her. The drawings were of very similar objects."
Some were allegedly scared. Others were excited by it and more curious.
“They ran to the edge of the school yard to see what this thing was. They saw this small creature walk around on top of the craft while another came down to check out the children. He was all in black, with a very tight suit. The children said he had big eyes ‘like rugby balls’.
“The children had direct eye contact with this creature. There seems to have been some kind of communication with the children about the state of the world — what we are doing to the planet, the destruction we are causing, although not all the children got this message. Some of the children were traumatised, others were excited. The young children were the most traumatised as they were at the front of the group.
The younger ones were apparently afraid, but not all of them were. Some have described it as running to their teachers, but the teachers were in a meeting and they ran to the tuckshop lady. In short, the children were unsupervised while they were playing outside.
Perhaps you should stop putting your own slant on the story, MR.
You have a case where around 62 kids collaborated to lie about something they saw and even drew detailed pictures of roughly the same incident? Let's see it.
There have been numerous studies conducted with children, especially young children, and false memories and implanted memories.
https://vhil.stanford.edu/pubs/2009/segovia-virtually-true.pdf
http://idml.medicine.arizona.edu/Ar...susceptible to the false memory illusion .pdf
Children are very susceptible to it and there have been numerous studies performed on dozens of school aged children where even a few words can lead to rich stories about something they experienced or saw.
Note in this experiment the subjects were manipulated into believing the incident was different from what they witnessed. This makes sense. People told they are remembering something different from what others saw may update their own stories. But that doesn't prove people will naturally do this with no false feedback. In the case of the 62 children, no false feedback was given them. If anything, consulting with each other only strengthened their recall of the event and their confidence in their own accounts. Add to that the fact that it was an emotionally jarring experience, and the prospect of them all getting it wrong becomes highly unlikely.
Ermm, the problem is that they would have consulted with each other in the first place. This is why eye witnesses to crimes are generally not allowed to speak to each other before they speak to the police. They are kept separate, so that they cannot possibly impart information and create false memories.
This isn't an example of collaborated accounts confabulating false details. It's merely showing the natural decay of memory. This is to be expected over several years. But the account of the 62 kids had no such time to decay. They were interviewed in a matter of days.
In which time they were literally able to get their stories straight.
In the words of one of those children when interviewed as an adult:
Tracking down one of the Ariel School experiencers took some doing, but eventually I connected with Sarah* in what she referred to as “a most stubborn old Rhodie [white Rhodesian] bar” in downtown Harare.
Of the more than 110 children and staff who had been at the school, which sits just outside the small agricultural centre of Ruwa, when the aliens landed in 1994, she thought she was probably the only one still in the country.
“Everyone’s fucked off to Canada or the UK,” she said. “Or died.”
When it became clear to her drinking buddies that we were going to talk UFOs, eyes began to roll.
“Christ, Sê, not ET again,” someone muttered.
She ignored him.
“Whaddya wanna know? Actually, it’ll be simpler if I just shoot. It happened, OK. Sixty-two kids between the ages of about six and 12 saw the aliens land and get out of their little ships. When the kids returned to class they were completely freaked and couldn’t stop nattering about little men who looked a bit like Michael Jackson. The teachers told them to shut up, as teachers are wont to do, and classes proceeded.
“But the next day the school received a bunch of calls from parents wanting to know why their kids were spooked. It got so that the teachers started to freak out, too, and a local UFO expert called Cynthia Hind was invited to speak to everyone. It was via her, I think, that we heard about a famous shrink who was coming from the US to assess the children. What was his name now … Mack, Dr John Mack, who I heard was killed by a drunk driver a few years back.”
Not only were these children allowed to discuss it among themselves, but they were also told that a UFO specialist was coming to see them, and they were asked to draw pictures of what they had seen.. Gee, no surprises there that they all drew similar drawings. And that was from a UFO site.
Comparisons to Michael Jackson aside, the fact that these children were clearly given so many hints and leads, it's no wonder they all drew the same thing and that their stories were so identical.
I know that children don't scream and run and tell their teachers about something they made up.
They didn't.
The teachers had all entered the staff room for a meeting and the only adult outdoors was the tuckshop mistress, who was soon swamped by children claiming they had seen “three or four objects coming into the rough bush area … disc-like objects coming in along the power lines and finally landing in the rough, among the trees. The children were a little bit afraid, although they were also curious.”
False memories and leading children to believing something or having seen something they hadn't seen is pretty easy to do.
Here's another compelling case of a ufo sighting:
It isn't compelling.
At all. And this was already discounted in one of the many closed UFO threads and the authorities said it was a weather event. How many times have you posted this now?
So are you saying these events never happened? That a "crank site" just made them up?
Wouldn't be a first time.
Crank websites are known to make things up. Don't believe me? Visit a 9/11 crank website.
People can choose to believe whatever they want. They often do. I'm just putting out the information that will enable them to make an informed choice on the matter.
If that is what you were doing, then we wouldn't have a problem.
The problem with you is that you take those videos as absolute evidence of the existence of aliens and you lose your proverbial shit when anyone dares to question your absolute belief in them or to express doubts or disbelief in your claims.
Putting stuff out there for people to make an informed choice or decision would entail approaching these subjects objectively. You are yet to understand what that actually means. You don't post objectively.
If I wasn't doing a good job, there'd be no attempts to lock my threads and infract me for posting this information. Obviously the information is threatening to many people's worldview here. Hence the attempts to censor it.
If doing a good job entails plagiarism, misrepresenting articles, posting things out of context, using quote mining sites which misrepresent studies, failing to reference what you are quoting and citing, posting contradictory material and claiming both are correct even though they completely contradict each other and literally cancel each other out.. Then sure, you are doing a great job MR and that is why your posts are being locked, because you are doing such a good job!