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To see how, let's go back and look at some of the less commonly reported details in this event's history. A literature survey published in the Malawi Medical Journal found that such cases are surprisingly common in African schools, citing many such cases and concluding 'The psychosocial environment plays a crucial role in the occurrence of mass hysteria in developing countries.' Whether mass hysteria was involved here or not, the psychosocial environment absolutely did come into play. Inside academia, however, it is the mass hysteria explanation that has found the most traction, as happened in a number of other mysterious cases we've talked about here on Skeptoid.

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And his is the verdict that has been endorsed by the popular media ever since, including at least two features on the TV program Sightings.

Mack reported to the world that the event was genuine, that the children were telling the truth, and that extraterrestrials had indeed visited Zimbabwe on that day. Mack: What was the sense you got from those eyes? Mack: And did the man say those things to you? How did he get that across to you? Mack: How did those thoughts come to you? Did they come to you from the craft, or from.? Girl #1: As if it wanted to come and take us. Mack: Staring at you as if what? As if to do what? Girl #1: It looked evil because it was just staring at me. Mack: Evil? What was evil about them? Say what you mean by evil. Mack: What was the feeling when you looked at the eyes? Many of these interviews were videotaped. Universally, it was reported that 62 children, with no reason to lie and no prior exposure to the concept of space aliens, would never all make up (and stick to) exactly the same story.ДЄ couple months later the event got its most famous stamp of authenticity when John Mack, a prominent and respected professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, came in person and interviewed the children. When classes resumed, some of the children told their teachers. The craft either faded away, flew away quickly, or disappeared, either leaving one or more men behind or taking them away. One or more either landed or hovered above the field, and anywhere between one and four men, either normal-looking black men or conventional small gray aliens wearing black clothes, stood either atop the craft or beside it, faced the children, and communicated telepathically the need to take good care of planet Earth. Somewhere between one and several silver balls or objects or spacecraft either appeared in the sky, darted about, or came floating in low, to a field of brush and small trees just outside the school property. The details are not actually as consistent as usually reported, but the basics generally are. 62 of the children saw it (aged 6 to 12) nearly 200 did not. The adult faculty were all inside having a staff meeting and none of them witnessed what happened. Ruwa itself isn't even a town, just a local place name, little more than a crossroads in an agricultural region. 250 schoolchildren were all outside playing at the Ariel School, a private elementary school in the Harare province of Zimbabwe. It was the midmorning break on September 16, 1994. While today's skeptical academics dismiss the episode as a case of mass hysteria, the UFO community embraces the Ruwa, Zimbabwe encounter of 1994 as an unassailable body of evidence that we were visited by extraterrestrial beings. Surely 62 children wouldn't all tell the same lie, and surely rural Africans would have no pop culture references from which to fabricate a flying saucer story. The event was broadly documented, not only by responsible news organizations such as the BBC, but also by a respected academic who interviewed the children and reported that they all told exactly the same story. 62 children at a school in rural Africa all witnessed a craft come down out of the sky and land just outside their schoolyard, and a strange being stepped out and communicated a telepathic message to all of them that they need to take better care of planet Earth. It's one of those stories that defies all rational explanation.