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Status
Released
Release
2022
Runtime
1h 30m
Available options inUS
"What happens when you experience something so extraordinary that nobody believes you?"
Ariel Phenomenon explores an African extraterrestrial encounter witnessed by over sixty schoolchildren in 1994. As a Harvard professor, a BBC war reporter, and past students investigate, they struggle to answer the question: "What happens when you experience something so extraordinary that nobody believes you?"
16 Cast Members
John E. Mack
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author (archive footage)
Natasha Chakaodza
Self - Ariel School Student
Nashville Chakaodza
Self - Ariel School Student
Francis Chirimuuta
Self - Ariel School Student
Nathaniel Coxall
Self - Ariel School Student
Lisil Field
Self - Ariel School Student
Emma Kristiansen
Self - Ariel School Student
Robert Medcalf
Self - Ariel School Student
Luke Nel
Self - Ariel School Student
Claire Rixom
Self - Ariel School Student
Takudzwa Shava
Self - Ariel School Student
Salma Siddick
Self - Ariel School Student
Emily Trim
Self - Ariel School Student
Kayleigh Van Druten
Self - Ariel School Student
Dallyn Vico
Self - Ariel School Student
Tim Leach
Self - Former Head of Foreign Correspondents' Assoc in Zimbabwe