Emily Trim was a student at the Ariel primary school near the town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe. On September 16, 1994, many students reported seeing a craft land near the school and strange beings exit the craft and interact with the children. The incident was made famous when it was covered by the BBC, who interviewed the children soon after the incident. Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack traveled to the school to interview the children and recorded their extraordinary accounts.
Emily was one of those children and says the incident still effects her to this day. She says she was only a few feet away from the beings and believes she was given messages. She has began painting and drawing mysterious and beautiful images she feels are a manifestation of the messages she received.
Day of the incident, she and a friend were out during recess and playing a game where they would hop on the boundary logs around the playground. The two of them then heard a high pitched frequency and saw a flash, followed by the craft. She says that it’s hard to judge time at this point, how long the whole thing lasted, etc.
Two beings started hopping on the logs next to them, mimicking them, and then all of a sudden ended up in front of them, at arms length. Suddenly the girls were frozen and started receiving telepathic images being communicated from the beings’ eyes. The message of the images was about the positives and negatives of technology, “there’s a good and a bad way to use technology, you can do better.”
Someone in the crowd asks if she’s had further experiences with the beings, she says yes but she doesn’t know if it’s the same ones she saw as a child. Then she describes her painting, says that she doesn’t know what she’s going to paint when she starts painting (I think?), but she describes the painting shown in the slide and talks about the “energy” that surrounds her when time seems to freeze during the encounters.
Then someone asks her to describe the beings from her other experiences. She says they can alter perception to make you feel more comfortable with what you’re seeing. She says that in her last encounter there were greys and a face that went back and forth between a “being” and a lion (very interesting stuff, reminds me of descriptions of angels in the bible). And she says that the beings are similar to the ones she saw as a child.
Then the guy with the glasses closes it out by paraphrasing what she told him. “Who cares what the ship looked like, who cares what it sounded like, who cares what they look like, it’s what they’re saying to us.”