In a hypothesis that is sure to top even the preposterous "swamp gas" excuse to explain a flying saucer seen by hundreds in 1966 in Michigan, UFO debunker Mick West is now proposing that alien beings and flying saucers witnessed by 62 school children in Zimbabwe in 1994 could have been puppets. UK resident Gideon Reid presented the hypothesis in July on his blog, and West is now floating it as a possibility to explain what the children saw. 

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Link to Gideon Reid blog article: The Mysterious Events at Ariel School, Zimbabwe - 16 Sept 1994 - Giddierone (gideonreid.co.uk)

Link to Mick West's initial Twitter comment: (20) Mick West on Twitter: "Did the children at the Ariel school see puppets instead of aliens? It's a theory that sounds silly. But are travelling puppeteers actually more or less plausible than telepathic aliens? Give it a read, then consider where it ranks on the hypothesis list https://t.co/5kPFi2OoPc" / Twitter

Link to Mick West's Twitter poll: (23) Mick West on Twitter: "A simple question of plausibility. A bunch of kids at a school claim to have seen some weird creatures and a spaceship. What seems more plausible: that the creatures are aliens, or the kids saw some puppeteers loading a van with their puppets." / Twitter

Link to articles about the 1966 "swamp gas" UFO: Aliens or swamp gas? The mystery of Michigan’s most famous UFO sighting lives on (michiganradio.org)

UFO or swamp gas? MI’s “close encounter” 50 years later | WKAR Public Media

Link to UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. 1, by Richard M. Dolan: https://amzn.to/3bGXBJE

Link to UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. 2, by Richard M. Dolan: https://amzn.to/3dd8OSl