MORE than 60 schoolchildren claim they witnessed a UFO land outside their school in one of the most compelling mass sightings of all time.

Three decades ago dozens of kids all claim to have seen a disc shaped object float down from the sky and settle in a field outside their school in Zimbabwe.

The incident is one of the most fascinating UFO cases of all time due to the number witnesses and the fact it occured in Africa, while most high profile sightings tend to be restricted to the West.

And some 28 years on from encounter, many of the children stand by the extraordinary claims of what they saw that day on September 16, 1994.

Many have many expressed doubt and painfully tried to dismiss the encounter as "mass hysteria", but the witnesses remain firm.

The children have now been being given the chance to tell their story in the new documentary film Ariel Phenomenon.

And it comes as UFOs - now often called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) - are being discussed at the heart of Washington DC.

The film was released just days after a landmark hearing in which intel chiefs fessed up their have been 400 sightings and 11 near misses with military aircraft in the US.

Ariel Phenomenon's director Randall Nickerson told The Sun Online he hopes the conversation is moving the right direction for experieners to be finally be heard without fear and stigma.

He added he UFO phenomenon is "global" and said "every country has these reports".