On 14th September, 1994, a UFO streaked across the sky over Southern Africa. Several witnesses reported what they had seen, but two days later something even more weird happened.
It was the morning of the 16th September at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. The teachers had just begun their morning meeting and outside 62 children were playing unsupervised in the schoolyard on their morning recess.
Suddenly some of the children stopped playing and looked up into the sky. There they saw 3 approaching lights. These objects would appear and disappear in the sky. The strange objects got closer and closer until finally they landed in a bushy area next to the schoolyard, about 100 meters from the children.
(There is some controversy as to whether the object landed on the ground or hovered above it.)
As the children watched in astonishment, a small man, only about a meter in height appeared on the top of one of the objects. He was described as having a scrawny neck, long jet black hair coming below his shoulders and huge eyes. The little man was dressed in a tight-fitting black suit which was ‘shiny’ according to an 11 year old girl.
He started moving across the ground towards them.Suddenly he looked up at the children and vanished, only to reappear behind the ‘UFO’. A few seconds passed and the man vanished again and the object took off and vanished into the sky.
Clip from ‘Sightings’ about this case
The terrified children called for help. They thought that the small man was a ‘tokoloshe’ (click here to see my previous article) who would kidnap them and eat them. By the time the adults arrived, the object had disappeared. The whole encounter had taken about 15 minutes.
The following day, UFO investigator Cynthia Hind contacted the school and asked the headmaster, Colin Mackie, to get the children to draw pictures of what they had seen. When she arrived at the school, she had a collection of 35 pictures waiting.
One small girl told Cynthia: ‘I swear by every hair on my head and the whole Bible that I am telling the truth.’ Continue reading »
A bizarre and frightening UFO phenomenon has become the talk of Brazil. The locals call it “vampire lights” or “chupa-chupa” (which means the sucker). The phenomena started appearing in the Para region of Brazil in the months of October, November and December of 1977, and during the first half of 1978. Since then reports have come in from all over Brazil and there are even reports of it as far north as Utah in the USA.
Witnesses describe the chupa as being a small square object that flies about 30 feet off the ground – around the height of the tree-tops. It emits a hum similar to that or an air conditioner or refrigerator. They fly around at night and whenever they encounter a local, they are known to attack viciously.
Incidentally, craft very similar to Chupas have also been reported at Skinwalker Ranch, Utah and Kelleher and Knapp’s book on the incident “Hunt for Skinwalker” has a chapter called “Chupas” (chapter 7) looking at the connections between the various cases.
Locals report that on encountering the strange craft, they emit a strong, bright beam of light. When this light hits them, marks that seem to resemble repeated stabs by small pins appear and this is accompanied by a loss of blood. The contact area also burns and victims complain of intense pain which lasts from weeks to years in some cases. Both men and women complain of giddiness, body numbing and headaches after the attacks.
Since most people in the area are poor, they often go out during the night to hunt food such as deer. To do this, they climb up in trees to await their prey. It is often during this period of waiting that hunters spot the chupa’s and if they are unfortunate, the chupa’s spot them. Some of the braver hunters try to shoot at them with their rifles. Continue reading »
Hessdalen rose from obscurity in December 1981 to become one of the most talked about places in Norway and beyond.
Hessdalen is a valley in central Norway. It lies southeast of Trondheim and about 30 kilometres northwest of the town of Roros. The whole valley stretches 12 kilometres in length and has only around 200 inhabitants.
In December 1981, a number of unknown lights appeared in the skies above Hessdalen. Sometimes they would move about at a fast rate of speed, and other times simply hover motionless for hours.
What makes this more unusual than similar lights, like the Paulding or Brown Mountain lights, is that these are sometimes caught on radar. In one case, an orb of light was tracked as it travelled more than 8 500 meters per second.
The vast majority of these lights are seen within the valley, below the mountain ridges around. There are three main shapes that are reported by witnesses: bullet shaped, football shaped and inverted xmas tree shaped. The colours vary from white to yellow and even red.
The sightings continued until the winter of 1983 when observations dropped off drastically. However by the following year, reports were again on the incrase.
In 1983 Project Hessdalen was established to investigate the lights. Fifty-three light observations were made during the 1984 field investigation. In 1985 none were spotted when equipment has been deployed and now 20 observations a year are reported.
In the spring of l994 a group of 20 scientists attended a workshop in Hessdalen which lasted for four days. These included Professor Boris Smirnov from the Institute of High Temperatures in Moscow, Russia, Professor David Fryberger from the Stanford Linear Accelerator in the USA, and Professor Yoshi Othsuki from Waseda University in Japan.
All the scientists agreed that the Hessdalen lights were “real” and not illusions of any kind and that they were worthy of further scientific study. Continue reading »
