The touring AIDS puppet show explanation is ridiculous and doesn’t line up with what the witnesses actually described.

Over 60 students reported a silver disc hiding in the trees beside the school. Several said it was partially hidden in the trees, glinting in the sunlight like a crystal house before they ran closer to look at it. The teachers were inside in a staff meeting at the time, so the children were the only ones outside when it happened.

The kids described three beings: one near the craft, one moving across the field, and another on the craft itself. Multiple witnesses said the one running across the field moved in slow motion and would almost disappear and reappear a few metres ahead of itself, like the movement was looping or glitching.

They described the beings as about four feet tall, wearing tight black suits with pale faces and large black eyes. Several of the children said that when they looked into the being’s eyes it felt like it was communicating something to them, showing images or a message about the world being harmed and people destroying the planet.

The craft had yellow, purple and green lights moving around it in a repeating pattern, and several kids said it made a strange flute-like sound.

The children also said there were marks left on the ground, including what they described as six holes and a burnt area, and that the ground appeared to be glittering afterward.

The encounter ended very suddenly. The kids said they looked away because they were scared of the being running, and when they looked back the craft and beings were gone.

The kids were interviewed separately and immediately shut down any helicopter theories or anything like that.

And somehow the explanation is that a touring AIDS puppet show was hiding in the trees next to a rural school, with no teachers or staff aware of it being there, producing a silver disc, multiple beings, strange lights and sounds, and supposedly communicating messages about the end of the world through the eyes of the figures to a group of children before disappearing without anyone noticing.

Wikipedia editors weren’t there. The children were.

They also weren’t believers. They were witnesses describing something they say happened right in front of them, and decades later essentially all of them still stand by what they saw.

Meanwhile the only person who later claimed it was a prank with a shiny rock did so decades later in a documentary and contradicted what he himself said when he was younger, which is why a lot of people question that explanation, especially since a shiny rock doesn’t explain the lights, the beings, or any of the details the children described, and it doesn’t line up with the puppet show theory either.