I don't doubt the sincerity of the children, and I consider the Westall School sighting case rock-solid, but there is one possible prosaic explanation for the Ariel School case that may not have been discussed. The photo below was taken in Zimbabwe of a Toyota truck that was used as a school bus for Kwenda School until they purchased a real school bus in summer of 1994, a few weeks before the Ariel school sighting.

There is, of course, no evidence that this truck or something similar pulled into the brush near the school and was the stimulus for the sighting, but one can see that if partially hidden by foliage (as whatever they saw was) and with its windows quite a bit higher off the ground than those of a passenger car, what kids would draw from memory after a brief sighting of some such vehicle while startled could well reassemble the drawings shown in the video.

This doesn't debunk the case, and I certainly don't know the whereabouts of this particular truck on the day of the Ariel event, but it's at least an example of another possibility. And I haven't seen any mention of teachers looking for tire tracks after the sighting. If some teacher said that he/she or a group inspected the ground there after the sighting and saw no tire tracks, that would strengthen the case and pretty much eliminate speculation about any manmade vehicle that could have been mistaken for what the kids thought they saw.

Landcruisers are some of the most common vehicles in Africa, especially in farming communities. They are also usually muddy and brown. It's a bit like mistaking a bus for a disk. It's reaching...badly.

Interesting how they all seem to land near schools. Its as if the beings wanted children to see them. Maybe getting future generations used to the truth

Thanks for finding this. I've been intrigued since I was first told of it. Now I need to find time to watch the video!

The kids grown up comments are really pretty lame,

If I had an experience almost 20 years ago and had 19 years to think about it I know for a fact I would have a concrete opinion on what happened, and being grown up I would have the ability to convey information and describe the event in elaborate detail, I'd have written a book about it, but these kids? Their general grown up response is "something happened, don't know what, but makes you think", what the heck? Sounds like they've been brainwashed by the world to disregard it and not think about it, which is too bad.

Originally posted by Razimus
The kids grown up comments are really pretty lame,

If I had an experience almost 20 years ago and had 19 years to think about it I know for a fact I would have a concrete opinion on what happened, and being grown up I would have the ability to convey information and describe the event in elaborate detail, I'd have written a book about it, but these kids? Their general grown up response is "something happened, don't know what, but makes you think", what the heck? Sounds like they've been brainwashed by the world to disregard it and not think about it, which is too bad.

edit on 22-3-2013 by Razimus because: (no reason given)

Actually, when you think about it, the general attitude toward UFOs is one of skepticism and despite the fact they had this experience, the general attitude can grind you down so it probably has dulled the experience for some of them