Research & investigation · Journalism
Cynthia Hind
UFO investigator and newsletter editor
Who they are
Cynthia Hind investigated UFO reports and wrote and edited UFO Afrinews. Her February 1995 issue recorded the Ariel School children’s accounts and discussed their drawings and the investigators’ visit. That newsletter is an early participant-produced source for the case, useful for tracing how the story was documented before many later retellings.
She provides an early reporting and investigative record of Ariel School, with the children’s reports and her interpretations kept attributable.
Selected contributions
- Published an early account of the Ariel School reports in UFO Afrinews, no. 11.Source ↗
Selected works
Report · 1995
The Children of Ariel School; The Visit of John Mack, M.D. to Africa
Hind’s newsletter presents an early account of the Ariel School reports and discusses the children’s drawings and the investigators’ visit. It is useful evidence of how the case was documented and interpreted at the time.
UFO Afrinews, no. 11, February 1995; scan preserved by Archives for the Unexplained.
Reading scope & citation
Reused prior inspected evidence: Downloaded original issue; read extracted text and visually inspected printed pp. 19–21. Inspected narrative of the school incident, differences among drawings, named headmaster and later Mack/Callimanopulos visit; not the complete interview or drawing archive.
In the timeline
Biography sources
- The Children of Ariel School; The Visit of John Mack, M.D. to Africa ↗UFO Afrinews, no. 11, February 1995; scan held by Archives for the Unexplained