Name: The Story of Children in Zimbabwe Encountering a UFO
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Story of Children in Zimbabwe Encountering a UFO' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Story of Children in Zimbabwe Encountering a UFO' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-04. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience I was doing my first documentary back in 1997 when I
was
just naive enough to think I can get an interview with Steven Spielberg we had
a
mutual friend involved this woman Janet and she gets back to me and she's like
yeah so Spielberg's definitely not gonna meet with you but he knows you're
working on this UFO documentary he thinks you should look into this landing
case that happened in Africa at the school and I said to myself at the time
and remind you know remind you guys that I was making a film on UFOs and I
dismissed it so quickly because I thought there's no way that a mass landing
with the sheer volume of eyewitness testimony at a school in broad daylight
could happen in the whole world not know about it so I just walked away from
that
story for about ten years ten years later I'm doing an event at the National
Press
Club with with Leslie Kane who was part of the article in New York Times it
came
out in 2017 and she introduced me to this guy Randall Nickerson and she's like
oh
he's working on this landing case in Africa long story short he's working on a
film now I think it's coming out next year specifically on just that case Dan
Farah is producing it and he said I'm working on the case and and if you want
to
do something with me on it a small piece I could so I got back into it I
licensed some of the footage that dr. John Mack the Harvard psychiatrist that
came and interviewed the school children on camera within a week of it
happening he unfortunately looked the wrong way in London got run down by a car
and died so I contacted the Institute with the help of Randall Nickerson I
licensed the archival footage we tracked down the witnesses today we flew them
in
from all different corners of the world brought them together a lot of them
were
standing right next to each other these they came face to face and one of the
things I've realized was that there were roughly a hundred kids in the
playground broad daylight aerial school Rue Zimbabwe 1994 and they got within
arms right arm some of them within arms length of these beans and brought these
witnesses together for the first time in 20 years and a lot of them hadn't even
told their their you know significant others just because they said they were
tired of having to defend this and I myself
didn't believe it when I first heard about it back in 1997 and that segment of
the
film is the most in my opinion is the most powerful segment because very
compelling
you've got all these children saying what they saw on camera after it happened
and
then you see them 20 years later and then we go to Africa and we meet with the
headmistress or she was a teacher at the time we went with other witnesses we
go to
the landing site we talk to people at the school that case is absolutely and it
was
witnessed by lots of other people in and around the area for several days
before it
chose a school to land it's it's so compelling because the children are all
clearly they're not actors so as their adults later they're all talking about
this moment and it's like they had a religious experience together like they're
all sharing it and talking about it and you could tell it's like it's a deeply
moving experience if if they were actors they wouldn't have been able to do
such a
good job because it to convey the reality of that moment to them to to to to be
able
to have this interpretation of this event where they're all consistent in the
story and they're all clearly still shook by this moment it's really
interesting
because if you had that scene in a movie it would take like a really good actor
to
pull it off and they'd probably need multiple takes they'd probably want to get
the best one but those kids the way they were talking about it the way they
were
drawing it you're like wow it really does seem like something happened to them
I
I know how credible that the testimony of the children is because I my partner
Rebecca she's never had much of an interest in what I do making
documentaries on UFOs I do other things as well but when I was reviewing in the
studio the archival interview of the children she just dropped off a cup of
coffee and she stopped and went oh my god those children are not lying this is
the
most amazing thing I've ever seen cuz look I ask your audience to don't take it
from me just suspend judgment for a moment and imagine hypothetically if a UFO
or
several UFOs landed at a school in broad daylight in Rua Zimbabwe Africa and
interacted telepathically with nearly a hundred school children not all of them
had telepathic but it seemed the incident how significant of a story would you
give
that well not only that they had the same message yes but the telepathic
message was
that technology is a real problem yes and there's things that people are doing
with
technology that are going to ruin the earth yes and they were trying to relay
this
to children which is very strange yes you know I mean maybe they just thought
they
were adults because they were the same size as the aliens I mean do you think
they knew that they were children do you think they understood that it was a
school
mean this is all speculation right but I know I definitely had to ask myself
look
during the production of the film Paula Harris actually turned me on to another
landing case that happened in Australia in 1966 at a school and this time there
were
roughly 300 witnesses that saw a disc land right outside of a playground in
Australia and we went
to Australia and investigated that case went to the landing site talk to eyewitness
testimony
people that jumped the fence at the school playground and ran over to where
this thing
landed and then we even interviewed a guy who snapped a photograph of a disc a
Polaroid back in 1966 two days prior to the incident so it's very
probably that we have a photo we have photographic evidence we have eyewitness
testimony and for the first time we've got testimony from a science teacher so
why do
these things land at schools it seems like and I'm just totally speculating
here but
it seems like if if I were going to do that it seems like a pretty benign
environment we've had testimony from military guys that we take a fairly
hostile
position towards things that penetrate sensitive military installations and you
know so maybe I'm just saying maybe maybe they safe you may be it's safe we
have to
stop reacting to you know intrusions by UFOs as a threat I mean that's a whole
thing behind this new task force and as much as I respect you know the task
force my
colleagues and I want to cooperate with them to the extent that we can bring
information or resources to to what they do but there is more this is not
should
not be looked at specifically as a threat I mean with with the phenomena that
we
observe I mean if they wanted to blow up those F-18s I could do it okay then
obviously that's that's not what it's all about and this idea of just labeling
it all as a
as a threat because it's unknown that that's a wrong idea ninety percent of the
information
comes from the public comes from children comes and very very little of it is
made up you know in
France I mean the data would we get you know with at the French Space Agency
comes
through channels where if people reported something that's found to be untrue
they
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