You do an absolutely amazing job at making the viewer feel like you're having a one on one. Been watching watching 4 or so years. Appreciate the content man
Saw it fly in, thought was jets and was slow moving jets and no sound. A squad of jets flew in the same path about 10 minutes after. The jets were fast and loud.
So interesting as it is the biggest sighting of a ufo in recent, recorded history. 10,000 ppl.... Could be flares, planes in formation.... Or real other world visitors.... Or aerospace contractors re-engineered recovered alien tech and they're flying it around for some reason, freaking out people
To the people who thought the lights blocked the stars behind them, that's a normal thing to see with bright lights. Bright lights tend to blot out dimmer lights behind them, so it makes sense that the stars wouldn't be visible behind something like a flare or an aircraft light.
Not to mention that Phoenix is a heavily polluted and smog filled city. Those five lights could easily look like something that was attached to a craft.
Hi, i'm a fan from Chile and here in my country there was a massive sighting very similar to what happened in Phoenix, a lot of people on the highway coming to the capital in the 80s witnessed a massive sighting in the sky, although there was a sighting in live tv when a show from the 80s captured allegedly a UFO
I knew this day would finally come. The desert out here has LOTS of weird phenomena. Just a few years ago I saw 4 lights moving in the shape of a diamond perfectly in sync as if it was a single mile long object. This was in a suburb just east of Phoenix. It hummed like a dryer running, moved from the north horizon to the south horizon, and seemed very low in the sky. Definitely not helicopters, too quiet. Not a stunt (most likely) as it was past 3 am and a weekday.
@@ArchLordXarnor i just want to understand the mysteries, and I think if I actually crashed into a UFO at least I'd get a good grasp on the situation some moments before the impact. Like, I assume I'd see the aircraft and know if it's manmade or not.
@@pairot01 they're man made.. they all early sightings started off as silver discs, then over the years they've evolved to be bigger, triangular, more advanced.. were just watching a natural progression of humans figuring out the tech, that's all.. the most recent thing they seem to like to do is swarms .. maybe aliens are out there, but ufos are human no doubt
Skeptic listen, I've been a fan of yours for about 5 years at this point and i've never made a comment but man, this content is gold. I really appreciate this new type of videos my dude keep it up
I was about 5, almost 6 years old when this happened, and I remember seeing the lights, but I was way to young to really understand what It could have been
So I've been watching your channel for years and I don't know if its just me but it looks like your enjoying making these videos more than you used to. At least that's how it comes across. Either way once again I love these and im excited each week for the next one!
Love your work. Always top notch stuff. I'm curious tho, why didn't you mention that the mayor himself has given numerous interviews stating he saw the craft himself? Not lights, a craft that he described as being the size of an aircraft carrier. He also has 20+yrs flying experience. I think this is important information. Thanks again, no one does this type of analysis better.
@@joshualarue1624 Agreed! I believe making that distinction is very important as well. People can argue too easily to try and explain away strange lights. Seeing a physical craft is a completely different conversation.
Early experimental drone technology seems the most likely, but with a pretty big flaw; if you're doing a test flight of very expensive prototype cutting-edge technology, why the hell would you fly it over a major city, at night, with super bright lights? Prototypes tend to have issues, hence their prototype stage, so if you were testing, you'd want to be able to recover them with minimal risk to life and property while also minimizing exposure to the public. Whole thing seems really suspicious.
Its a common mistake...lol. One city slicker once told me when seeing all the stars in the country "so thats why the rain comes down in tiny droplets! Its dripping thru all those little holes in the sky!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Quickly becoming my #1 go to on youtube. Great videos and style. L.A. Beast was always my favorite on YT but he hasnt been doing as much lately. Keep making new content for us!
The thing about UFO sightings that I never understood, if they are from other worlds, why do their craft have lights at all? I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t need them
Our own space shuttles have running lights. They are for the benefit of other air going traffic to make them more visible, like using your cars headlights in a heavy fog. But then, youd think they would want to remain hidden from us, so maybe the lights serve other functions, like Greg mentioned. Or, maybe we are not meant to see them, but because our eyes/brains might work differently from the aliens, we _do_ see them. Then again, theyve been at this for a while, so youd think they would have figured that out by now lol Thats the problem with relying too much on anal probing, I guess. Cant figure out how Human eyes work that way.
1997 I was a freshman in high School. what really confuses me is, considering the sighting lasted for so long, and so many thousands witnessed it, where are the photos? there should have been tens, or even hundreds, of people with film cameras, snapping all kinds of photos of it. but there are none...
No, but even then they weren't as digitalised as now. Most evidence found was (probably) all on physical pictures not brought on the internet? I'll have to look if i can find anything about it to be sure
In 1997 my family only had 1 camera, and it was not a film camera, whenever we wanted to use it we'd have to go and purchase a new battery as well as new film for it, because those weren't things we had on hand. I can't say that this would be the case for everyone of course, but that's how it was for me specifically, and I know for a fact that it was the same with most of my classmates.
There's an interview with the council women where she talks of someone who sent her clear-as-day footage of the lights/craft that was later stolen from her office
You honestly might be able to chalk the varying number of lights to perspective tbh. If it was a craft, you might not be able to see the lights all at once from every side, so people saw it on different sides of the craft, reporting different numbers.
I was 11 living in Kingman, AZ when I saw the lights. Back then I was always star gazing and living in the middle of the desert the sky is so clear and free of city light pollution. Then when I saw them again on the news when they were over Phoenix I was vindicated because my family didn't believe me.
There was a TV station that overlaid the footage of the lights over a picture of Phoenix from the same vantage point in the day, with the mountain visible, and stabilized the video and overlaid it exactly. The lights DISAPPEAR BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN.
Yes, I remember seeing this back when it happened! I wish I would've saved the video. They all disappeared exactly where the mountain range meets the sky so they had to have been farther away than the mountains.
My aunt and uncle claimed to see the Phoenix lights and their accounts are about the same as everyone else. Pretty much lights in the sky (not flares) flew over head moving slow but lasted an hour or so they said
Always remember: COULD does NOT equal WAS. Saying "this UFO could have been a drone" does NOT equal it was. You'd have to find specifically the person who sent up their drone at the specific location and specific time to confirm some particular UFO sighting WAS a drone. We've all heard more than enough from Neil deGrasseTyson how "this UFO could have been an alien does not mean it was". Yeah. We know. We've heard this a billion times before. But, that logic applies to mundane explanations such as human-made drones, too, as I have demonstrated.
I had a light sighting once in New Jersey. I was visiting my uncle and was talking to him outside. We just got out of the car and he lit his cigarette when I noticed a square of lights hovering in the sky. I turned and mentioned it, saying "you see that? The hell are those things?" He said, "I have no idea" and as soon as he said that the lights turned 180 degrees and took off into the distance, it went easily 1000 miles per hour on the low end, I couldn't tell you how fast but at least 10 times faster than a plane and it achieved this in no more than half a second, no noise was made
Sometime in the early 2000s my family saw red lights very similar to these around Tucson, Arizona pretty far from the city. Very surreal to see a video about that exact phenomena the same week I move back into the house we saw them in Also, love the videos dude! You're like one of the few people i've held onto in the old "skeptic" community, really like the new content. The more logical and scientific take on theories and mysteries is really interesting, not grasping at any evidence like many conspiratorial fear mongers, but not discounting the very real cases unresolved by investigation.
it was around that time, maybe even before. I was out one night for a cigarette in Vallejo Ca. Partly cloudy. Looking up i witnessed very large darker than the sky triangle blocking out the stars as it moved. It did not have any lights. Only for about 15 to 30 seconds. I've mostly dismissed it as the clouds, but truly was symmetrically a triangle, very large and covered most of the sky i could see from the back yard.
I only learned of this a few years after it happened, but strangely same time many people in my hometown swore to see the same thing in Willow Springs Illinois. I wasn't one, but nearly every adult or kid who was out that night swear they saw it.
The projection aspect was a thing for sure, I remembered that because of my curiosity about it as a kid in the 90's and becoming a teen in the new millennium. I always thought "how can they stop the light to form the shapes in midair?" It was around the same time that the military was getting pumped about putting giant lasers in 747s & such which thankfully never really happened.
Yes, this can be explained by human tech. Maybe even Roswell could be. But what about Battle of Los Angeles? Happened before Roswell and if any country had a tech like that back then I really think we would've known 80 years later.
Nellis is in NV. Luke AFB and Williams AFB are west/east of Phoenix. I was in Tempe, which is a suburb of Phoenix. What I saw looked very "similar" to flares BEHIND South Mountain is that the "lights" very easily could have looked like 4 or 10 depending on what was seen on the jagged top end of South Mountain. BUT those were no flares that I've ever seen, before or after. To be clear, the lights were SOUTH of South Mtn, seen from the north side, when I saw them, and watched them for a little while. Cheers.
seen those films, and those lights are identical to lights ive seen several times over an military training area when they had night training with flares.
The famous footage is Not the footage of the object. It was still light around 830 when it began. That footage is a flares from Luke Air Force Base shot off around 10 p.m.
Lazar is an obvious fraud. He doesn't even ask the questions or take the measurements someone with an Associate's Degree in Physics would in that situation. Given his background in technology, he had at least that much education. At best, he is a post-hoc willing participant in a fraud perpetrated against him.
Ill never forget the day in 2020 where i was at a local park. Above the trees i saw a bright amber light hovering over the rocky mountains contrasted against the blanket clouds that day. I live in colorado and i was looking west twards the rocky mountains when my friends and i saw the amber orange light flashing and teleporting across the sky transversing a distance of what seemed to be miles at a time within the blink of an eye. I asked everyone else if they were seeing the same thing. And sure enough all 4 of us were watching the same perplexing light show.
My favourite thing about this case is the huge number of personal accounts you can find online. Plenty of videos on youtube of people talking of their experience seeing the lights. There was a good doc about it on here once but it's mysteriously disappeared now. shame.
Mouthy Buddha did a really good short documentary about it a while back. His channel's been removed but can be found on bitchute. He included a lot of the filmed eyewitness testimony, including that of the governor. These people seemed shook!
@@tacticaltemplar875 that's the exact doc I'm thinking about! Had a clip of the '30 tabs of acid' guy talking about the lights as he saw them while delivering pizza. Was a good doc, dunno what happened to that channel. Saw online he got wrapped up in some antisemitic conspiracies or something?? Shame if he fell into that rabbit hole because the ufo content was v good.
@@armouredskeptic That's fair. Obviously that's true of any mass "sighting" type event, but considering the number and nature of reports that night, I'm drawn to the conclusion that at least something highly unusual (and possibly spectacular) transpired that night.
i saw amber lights in the sky about 15 years ago in arkansas. i was with someone who saw them too and they moved around and spiraled and changed direction and stopped all sudden moves seemingly at random but no formations or anything definitely not flares though it was weird
I saw a similar phenomenon in the skies above Colorado Springs 2008-2009 timeframe, orangeish lights in a triangle pattern that went across the sky above I25.
I've lived in Phoenix my whole life, and while I was only 7 when this happened, I swear I've seen floating lights around more recently. But I think they are some king of military illumination flare they're using for training by the airforce base or something. The ones I've seen more recently don't move and it's usually just a few off in the distance, not flying in any pattern and they're brighter white like the video of the flares you've shown. They could just be lights on the mountains honestly lol. I have no idea what the lights in '97 were. I don't remember them moving in '97 either though, at least not like it's described. Some of the footage almost looks like they're lights sitting on top of the mountain. The mountains in Phoenix are not very tall and they disappear in the darkness.
I think I like the early drone explanation. It feels easy to account for every detail: Drones are small, they wouldn't show up on radar. Their lights can be turned on and off, which could account for the different numbers of lights. As you said, the "craft" between them is just an illusion. People also used to see shapes in the stars because their brains filled the gaps. The military said they didn't know anything, which could be any number of things: intentionally lying to cover up technology (although, that's best used in Cold War era stuff), maybe they're army drones and the AF had no clue, maybe a test of such small tech wasn't even logged. Hell, maybe a couple guys wanted to mess around and weren't even supposed to be doing it. Idk, I feel like it ticks all the boxes in my mind.
I saw something very similar during a late night stroll on the beach some years back. Nobody else was on the beach, just me and my buddy chillin' and enjoying the beach environment at night. No moon in the sky either, so there was heavy cloud cover I guess. And no, we weren't high or anything. Was a bit creepy that night, and both of us felt it. But the cherry on the cake was when we both saw red lights right in front of us, just above the water and maybe 40ft from the shore where we were. We heard something too, but certainly didn't "see" anything -- other than the red lights; which strobed on and off in different parts of the pitch-black night. There was also a strange disturbance on the surface of the water that was messing around with the waves as well. We just stood there watching it, as it seemingly watched us. It lasted a good six minutes - in a pattern, no less - then "faded" away; along with the strange, low-decibel "humming" sound that accompanied it. The ocean directly in front of us started acting "normal" as well. We stayed there for a few more minutes, but everything had seemingly returned to normal. We hadn't said anything the whole time this was happening; just watching whatever it was that was happening. After it seemingly left, we looked at each other and simply said "I didn't see that, and neither did you". Needless to say we went right home after that. We spoke more after we got back to my place, but still couldn't figure out what it was that we saw and heard. One thing that makes this moment so creepy is that we both knew and agreed that as we were observing it, so too was it observing us. Dare I say even messing with us in some way. Aliens? No. Super secret crap that makes almost no noise, can hover PERFECTLY in one spot, and can't be seen or noticed? Yes. This was back in the late 90's early 2000's btw. Just felt like sharing that for some reason...
That kind of drone tech wasn't really a thing back in 97, and you missed out that Fife Symington did a subsequent interview when he admits to seeing what he thought was a gigantic craft himself and that he was told what to say in the previous press conference when he mocked the sighting...if my memory serves me...nice video though :) Lemmino also did a great job of breaking down this event...
I got the n64 in 97. Excellent gaming console for the time. I loved the sega genesis more. Always wanted a sega Saturn, but 500 bucks was steep back then . I was gifted a nice lil tripod mounted telescope for viewing hale bop, it was visible by eye though for me in a rural area.
That's a tasty theory...but I'm sticking with my theory that its a Star Destroyer. Must've been a new guy at the wheel who forgot to turn the daytime running lights off.
> early drone technology Yes! Exactly my thought. From a Discovery documentary about the phenomenon I watched as a kid, there were two sightings that night, one would be perfectly explainable by flares (the video you presented, the shape is more of a quarter-circle than a triangle), as near the end the lights went out in a pretty random fashion. If you imposed an image of the mountain range you mentioned on this footage, it seems clear that the flares disappeared behind the peaks. The other one, with a V or triangle shaped, slow moving craft, boggled me as a kid, but seeing what can be done syncing drones today, I wouldn't put it past the military tech of the 90s.
My friends and I saw the exact same thing around 2008-2009 out in the countryside in Missouri. Maybe the second weirdest thing I've ever seen. We were getting messed up and I'm convinced it was an illusion, but all the friends swear by it blocking out the stars.
I once saw something like that, lights in a large V pattern gliding silently through the night sky, except the lights weren't really bright, in fact hey looked like stars except they weren't "blinking" like stars can do. Just these tiny blue-white-ish lights. Some others who were with me saw them too. No idea what they might have been, drones haven't really been a thing back then, no airport in the vacinity, but it was way too silent for them to have been planes or helicopters... unless there are some really quiet types of helis. Not saying it's alien stuff though.
So I grew up just a couple miles away from the west Barry Goldwater range and the yuma proving grounds. They test flares pretty often and occasionally they do end up drifting like in some of the pictures. I can’t explain the triangle but I can say with certainty that some of those images are flares being tested on the east Goldwater range
After u mentioned the tr3b. Last December nit far from London it was 10:30pm I work as a Head chef just left work with my boss. We both saw and then stood and watched it for 20 minutes, a huge, triangular shaped craft with a light on each corner it was sat totally still in the sky would of been massive roughle size of a football pitch. Took my breath away most insane thing I've ever seen
I'm sure you know this, AS, but for anyone who doesn't: just because a civilian air-traffic control (ATC) radar doesn't see any planes doesn't mean they aren't there. Civilian ATC radar is actually very low-powered (relatively speaking) and isn't meant to detect planes directly. Instead, it triggers aircraft's onboard identity beacons (I forget the technical name) to send back a pulse with the aircraft's ID and so forth. So an aircraft that's flying with its beacon off is effectively invisible to a civilian airport's radar. Granted that flying with your beacon off is extremely dangerous, since if ATC doesn't know you're there they may well vector other aircraft they can see right through the same airspace you're in. This can easily cause a collision. If no normal air traffic was in the space, though, it's not too crazy. My point is that any theory involving aircraft is not disproven by the lack of ATC radar sightings. Now, if a proper *military* radar can't pick up something that's clearly visible, that indicates a stealth aircraft, the military lying, or... something else. ^_^ Of the theories you cited, the hologram and drone theories are the only ones that seem to hold any water as far as I can tell. Fascinating as always. :)
Early Military prototype Airship? We know the military was thinking of such a craft, that being a large heavy lift airship that could lift tanks, troops, and equipment, also acting as mobile base.
Weird, I remember seeing almost exactly a thing like this in the night sky, although the lights were blue and this happened in northern Europe, also seemed to cast light down to the ground level so it was flying way lower possibly
@@armouredskeptic I think it was PTEN, they had their own independent news, before they were bought out/subsidized. And became the UPN. Also known as channel 13 in LA.
Even if it's short and low rez, the video footage is enough to clearly debunk the flare theory, and the "planes flying in formation" theory : no smoke, and a perfect alinement and syncronized trajectory that would confirm that it's one big v shape craft. And it's also confirmed by the closest witnesses. The number of light changing isn't that suspicious, imo : some of them were just turning on and off. Also if you want to hear Kurt Russel talk about what he saw in a more detailed and casual way, listen to his commentary with John Carpenter for the "Big Trouble in Little China" dvd.
They really should call this the Arizona lights. They crossed almost all the way across the state. I saw them with some friends while we were playing outside in Northern AZ. My wife and I also saw the more recent event a few years ago.
Some people said, the lights looked inset into something. If they actually were, that could be an Explanation for the varying amounts of lights, because if they were inset into a tube like structure, not all lights would be visible from every position. I do like the explanation that these might have been drones. They wouldn't even have to be Quadrocopters, some lightweight rc planes can fly at very slow speeds.
I remember years ago seeing some investigators looking into this one. They worked with the person who took the video of the 7 lights. They used the original camera he used and set up the camera in the same spot during the day. The lights in that original video all disappeared in an odd order. The investigators superimposed the video of the lights over the video they took during the day. The lights disappeared with the mountain blocking them out.
You do an absolutely amazing job at making the viewer feel like you're having a one on one. Been watching watching 4 or so years. Appreciate the content man
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that
Greg: "Some people saw 5 lights, some saw 7 lights, some even saw 9 lights!"
Picard: "THERE ARE 4 LIGHTS!"
I fought myself not to make that reference
While watching this I thought the exact same thing... I'm glad I'm not the only one
@@armouredskeptic We love Trek-references, don't censor yourself
@@theharbingerofconflation Live long & prosper 🖖
@@iamwhoyousayiam6773 Qapla'! ✊
Saw it fly in, thought was jets and was slow moving jets and no sound. A squad of jets flew in the same path about 10 minutes after. The jets were fast and loud.
Crazy!
Jets that were most likely dispatched to chase the lights as even authorities were baffled.
So interesting as it is the biggest sighting of a ufo in recent, recorded history. 10,000 ppl....
Could be flares, planes in formation....
Or real other world visitors....
Or aerospace contractors re-engineered recovered alien tech and they're flying it around for some reason, freaking out people
"They said there were no UFO's....."
So they must have known what they were !
Yup. They contradicted themselves. Said there was nothing then they said those lights were not UFOs. But... You said there was nothing up there...
Lol good point
To the people who thought the lights blocked the stars behind them, that's a normal thing to see with bright lights. Bright lights tend to blot out dimmer lights behind them, so it makes sense that the stars wouldn't be visible behind something like a flare or an aircraft light.
Very good point
Exactly what I was thinking!
Not to mention that Phoenix is a heavily polluted and smog filled city. Those five lights could easily look like something that was attached to a craft.
But its Phoenix the light pollution would be more than enough to block out stars period.
Hi, i'm a fan from Chile and here in my country there was a massive sighting very similar to what happened in Phoenix, a lot of people on the highway coming to the capital in the 80s witnessed a massive sighting in the sky, although there was a sighting in live tv when a show from the 80s captured allegedly a UFO
Thats a great story!
Armoured Skeptic taking the "first" comment to the next level 6hrs before posted
Yeah how the fuck
There are always a couple early birds
I knew this day would finally come.
The desert out here has LOTS of weird phenomena. Just a few years ago I saw 4 lights moving in the shape of a diamond perfectly in sync as if it was a single mile long object. This was in a suburb just east of Phoenix. It hummed like a dryer running, moved from the north horizon to the south horizon, and seemed very low in the sky.
Definitely not helicopters, too quiet. Not a stunt (most likely) as it was past 3 am and a weekday.
Wow, that is such a cool signting
Biggest problem of these videos is that they make us always wanting more. Could easily listen to a hour of this
I really appreciate that
I have a podcast called Full Metal Tuxedo by the way that goes for 3hours 😂😂 find it at @armouredskepticmore
The Phoenix ligts has been one of the more intresting UFO sightings, gonna enjoy to hear your take at it.
It was something crazy
If Kurt Russell says he saw the lights, then you better believe it!
Awesome video as always Skeptic, thanks again for the quality content.
You better call him Plisskin!
Thank you so much
Did he??? Is this recorded?
Ahhhhh yeah gotta get my weekly "Hey Buddy" that's the good stuff
Fr tho, anyone else who calls me buddy is asking for a fight, but when Greg says “hey buddy” I’m like hell yeah
Thanks bud
Loving tinfoil helmet! Your channel has been POPPIN OFF the last two years, love it!
Thank you
@@armouredskeptic Thank YOU! This content helped me get through quarantine. Ive rewatched the fake history video like 6 times xD
If I was a pilot I'd smash my aircraft into the UFO. I'd die, but at least we would have the wreckage to analyze
The ultimate sacrifice for science
@Joaquin Pirotto how noble of you lol
@@ArchLordXarnor i just want to understand the mysteries, and I think if I actually crashed into a UFO at least I'd get a good grasp on the situation some moments before the impact. Like, I assume I'd see the aircraft and know if it's manmade or not.
Haha oh no... maybe it's best you're not a pilot :p
@@pairot01 they're man made.. they all early sightings started off as silver discs, then over the years they've evolved to be bigger, triangular, more advanced.. were just watching a natural progression of humans figuring out the tech, that's all.. the most recent thing they seem to like to do is swarms .. maybe aliens are out there, but ufos are human no doubt
Skeptic listen, I've been a fan of yours for about 5 years at this point and i've never made a comment but man, this content is gold. I really appreciate this new type of videos my dude keep it up
Thank you, I really appreciate it
I was about 5, almost 6 years old when this happened, and I remember seeing the lights, but I was way to young to really understand what It could have been
Very cool
So I've been watching your channel for years and I don't know if its just me but it looks like your enjoying making these videos more than you used to. At least that's how it comes across. Either way once again I love these and im excited each week for the next one!
Thanks bud! I absolutely do! I've never been happier in my work and life in general than I am now
@@armouredskeptic Glad to hear it!
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Did you just like your own comment?
Love your work. Always top notch stuff. I'm curious tho, why didn't you mention that the mayor himself has given numerous interviews stating he saw the craft himself? Not lights, a craft that he described as being the size of an aircraft carrier. He also has 20+yrs flying experience. I think this is important information.
Thanks again, no one does this type of analysis better.
@@joshualarue1624 Agreed!
I believe making that distinction is very important as well. People can argue too easily to try and explain away strange lights. Seeing a physical craft is a completely different conversation.
No radar return, silent, mile wide and where did it go. Interesting.
@@treecygirl ohh
I think those aliens are gonna get a very large fine for not contacting the control tower!
They flew through controlled airspace without communicating, big fine for that
Early experimental drone technology seems the most likely, but with a pretty big flaw; if you're doing a test flight of very expensive prototype cutting-edge technology, why the hell would you fly it over a major city, at night, with super bright lights? Prototypes tend to have issues, hence their prototype stage, so if you were testing, you'd want to be able to recover them with minimal risk to life and property while also minimizing exposure to the public. Whole thing seems really suspicious.
I'm a city girl and this one time I was hiking in the mountains and I saw hundreds of tiny lights in the sky, turned out they were just stars.
Saw a light sitting above an air port. Was just there rotating for a minute, then it stopped rotating and took off insanely fast
Omg! I'm a country boy and I see those strange lights almost every night. I see thousands though. I thought I was going crazy
@@liveactionlink8736 You too!
Come on, that's just crazy talk!
Its a common mistake...lol. One city slicker once told me when seeing all the stars in the country "so thats why the rain comes down in tiny droplets! Its dripping thru all those little holes in the sky!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Quickly becoming my #1 go to on youtube. Great videos and style. L.A. Beast was always my favorite on YT but he hasnt been doing as much lately. Keep making new content for us!
Greg's left eyebrow raises more than a DreamWorks character's
Free speech is important to prevent the memory holing of information
Also I like your early drone tech theory
Thanks bud
I was just a kid when this happened. I was looking out my bedroom window instead of going to bed, and I saw the triangle shaped... thing.
Thunderf00t would like a word with all your ufo videos lol 😆
I have always thought it was early military drone technology testing.
Same
The thing about UFO sightings that I never understood, if they are from other worlds, why do their craft have lights at all? I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t need them
I wonder that too, but its possible the light is a by-product of another function, like thrust
Our own space shuttles have running lights. They are for the benefit of other air going traffic to make them more visible, like using your cars headlights in a heavy fog. But then, youd think they would want to remain hidden from us, so maybe the lights serve other functions, like Greg mentioned. Or, maybe we are not meant to see them, but because our eyes/brains might work differently from the aliens, we _do_ see them. Then again, theyve been at this for a while, so youd think they would have figured that out by now lol Thats the problem with relying too much on anal probing, I guess. Cant figure out how Human eyes work that way.
1997 I was a freshman in high School. what really confuses me is, considering the sighting lasted for so long, and so many thousands witnessed it, where are the photos? there should have been tens, or even hundreds, of people with film cameras, snapping all kinds of photos of it. but there are none...
Probably because the best phones at the time were nokia's.
No, but even then they weren't as digitalised as now. Most evidence found was (probably) all on physical pictures not brought on the internet? I'll have to look if i can find anything about it to be sure
In 1997 my family only had 1 camera, and it was not a film camera, whenever we wanted to use it we'd have to go and purchase a new battery as well as new film for it, because those weren't things we had on hand.
I can't say that this would be the case for everyone of course, but that's how it was for me specifically, and I know for a fact that it was the same with most of my classmates.
There's an interview with the council women where she talks of someone who sent her clear-as-day footage of the lights/craft that was later stolen from her office
@@TheTrixterz Interesting. If true, that screams military to me.
You honestly might be able to chalk the varying number of lights to perspective tbh. If it was a craft, you might not be able to see the lights all at once from every side, so people saw it on different sides of the craft, reporting different numbers.
11:34 the floating city is a really really bad example my dude. XD
Why?
Oh, I know jts been debunked
you are one of my Favorite you-tubers been a fan since the start. Keep up the Great work good Sir!
Thank you so much
I was 11 living in Kingman, AZ when I saw the lights. Back then I was always star gazing and living in the middle of the desert the sky is so clear and free of city light pollution. Then when I saw them again on the news when they were over Phoenix I was vindicated because my family didn't believe me.
There was a TV station that overlaid the footage of the lights over a picture of Phoenix from the same vantage point in the day, with the mountain visible, and stabilized the video and overlaid it exactly. The lights DISAPPEAR BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN.
Oohh reeeeeally?
Yes, I remember seeing this back when it happened! I wish I would've saved the video. They all disappeared exactly where the mountain range meets the sky so they had to have been farther away than the mountains.
My aunt and uncle claimed to see the Phoenix lights and their accounts are about the same as everyone else. Pretty much lights in the sky (not flares) flew over head moving slow but lasted an hour or so they said
Wow that's so cool
I love the claim it was flares. It cracks me up cause what everybody described most definitely was not flares.
Always remember: COULD does NOT equal WAS.
Saying "this UFO could have been a drone" does NOT equal it was. You'd have to find specifically the person who sent up their drone at the specific location and specific time to confirm some particular UFO sighting WAS a drone.
We've all heard more than enough from Neil deGrasseTyson how "this UFO could have been an alien does not mean it was".
Yeah. We know. We've heard this a billion times before. But, that logic applies to mundane explanations such as human-made drones, too, as I have demonstrated.
I had a light sighting once in New Jersey. I was visiting my uncle and was talking to him outside. We just got out of the car and he lit his cigarette when I noticed a square of lights hovering in the sky. I turned and mentioned it, saying "you see that? The hell are those things?" He said, "I have no idea" and as soon as he said that the lights turned 180 degrees and took off into the distance, it went easily 1000 miles per hour on the low end, I couldn't tell you how fast but at least 10 times faster than a plane and it achieved this in no more than half a second, no noise was made
omg you mentioned Hale Bopp and I had flashbacks lol... excited for this one
happened over belgium too in 1990 , same shape etc
Sometime in the early 2000s my family saw red lights very similar to these around Tucson, Arizona pretty far from the city. Very surreal to see a video about that exact phenomena the same week I move back into the house we saw them in
Also, love the videos dude! You're like one of the few people i've held onto in the old "skeptic" community, really like the new content. The more logical and scientific take on theories and mysteries is really interesting, not grasping at any evidence like many conspiratorial fear mongers, but not discounting the very real cases unresolved by investigation.
Great video.
Good to see an fellow Ontarian kicking ass! Great channel!
Oh, I see, just sucker us in to your patreon. You just might be the one who pops my patreon maraschino, good sir. Keep it up!
Yes! I've been waiting
Happy to deliver ;)
Please do a full video over each of those mass sightings!
This is one of my fav UFO sightings.
I love this one
it was around that time, maybe even before. I was out one night for a cigarette in Vallejo Ca. Partly cloudy. Looking up i witnessed very large darker than the sky triangle blocking out the stars as it moved. It did not have any lights. Only for about 15 to 30 seconds. I've mostly dismissed it as the clouds, but truly was symmetrically a triangle, very large and covered most of the sky i could see from the back yard.
I only learned of this a few years after it happened, but strangely same time many people in my hometown swore to see the same thing in Willow Springs Illinois. I wasn't one, but nearly every adult or kid who was out that night swear they saw it.
Headphones just died ! I gotta wait for them to charge before I can listen !
Hurry up! :p
And this is why I don't introduce extra batteries into my listening experience.
The projection aspect was a thing for sure, I remembered that because of my curiosity about it as a kid in the 90's and becoming a teen in the new millennium. I always thought "how can they stop the light to form the shapes in midair?" It was around the same time that the military was getting pumped about putting giant lasers in 747s & such which thankfully never really happened.
Yes, this can be explained by human tech. Maybe even Roswell could be. But what about Battle of Los Angeles? Happened before Roswell and if any country had a tech like that back then I really think we would've known 80 years later.
I would love to cover that story
Nellis is in NV. Luke AFB and Williams AFB are west/east of Phoenix. I was in Tempe, which is a suburb of Phoenix. What I saw looked very "similar" to flares BEHIND South Mountain is that the "lights" very easily could have looked like 4 or 10 depending on what was seen on the jagged top end of South Mountain. BUT those were no flares that I've ever seen, before or after. To be clear, the lights were SOUTH of South Mtn, seen from the north side, when I saw them, and watched them for a little while. Cheers.
Oops, it was Luke Airforce, yes
Saw this on tv when I was a little kid. Scared the fuck out of me. Forgot about it till now
Hahaha oops
seen those films, and those lights are identical to lights ive seen several times over an military training area when they had night training with flares.
The famous footage is Not the footage of the object. It was still light around 830 when it began. That footage is a flares from Luke Air Force Base shot off around 10 p.m.
Oh interesting
Flannel game is always on point lol
Haha yesss
Looking forward to this !!
And then, there's Bob Lazar.
He deserves a video
Ya after watching the Joe Rogan with him, he doesn't seem particularly reliable
Lazar is an obvious fraud. He doesn't even ask the questions or take the measurements someone with an Associate's Degree in Physics would in that situation. Given his background in technology, he had at least that much education.
At best, he is a post-hoc willing participant in a fraud perpetrated against him.
Ill never forget the day in 2020 where i was at a local park. Above the trees i saw a bright amber light hovering over the rocky mountains contrasted against the blanket clouds that day. I live in colorado and i was looking west twards the rocky mountains when my friends and i saw the amber orange light flashing and teleporting across the sky transversing a distance of what seemed to be miles at a time within the blink of an eye. I asked everyone else if they were seeing the same thing. And sure enough all 4 of us were watching the same perplexing light show.
Thank you for sharing your experience
Regarding the disparity on the number of lights: if you can switch them off they might not all be on all of the time.
You should do a video about werewolves/wolfmen through history and in north America specifically 💙
My favourite thing about this case is the huge number of personal accounts you can find online. Plenty of videos on youtube of people talking of their experience seeing the lights. There was a good doc about it on here once but it's mysteriously disappeared now. shame.
Mouthy Buddha did a really good short documentary about it a while back. His channel's been removed but can be found on bitchute. He included a lot of the filmed eyewitness testimony, including that of the governor. These people seemed shook!
@@tacticaltemplar875 that's the exact doc I'm thinking about! Had a clip of the '30 tabs of acid' guy talking about the lights as he saw them while delivering pizza. Was a good doc, dunno what happened to that channel. Saw online he got wrapped up in some antisemitic conspiracies or something?? Shame if he fell into that rabbit hole because the ufo content was v good.
The only problem I ha e with that is it's SO famous, people can lie amd say they witnessed it when they didn't actually see it themselves
@@armouredskeptic That's fair. Obviously that's true of any mass "sighting" type event, but considering the number and nature of reports that night, I'm drawn to the conclusion that at least something highly unusual (and possibly spectacular) transpired that night.
@@armouredskeptic ye it would be quite easy to make up a story
For a minute I thought that said Phoenix nights and I was about to yell that "Peter kay has done it again"
i saw amber lights in the sky about 15 years ago in arkansas. i was with someone who saw them too and they moved around and spiraled and changed direction and stopped all sudden moves seemingly at random but no formations or anything definitely not flares though it was weird
Very interesting
I saw a similar phenomenon in the skies above Colorado Springs 2008-2009 timeframe, orangeish lights in a triangle pattern that went across the sky above I25.
Very cool, it seems to be a somewhat common experience
Oh hell yeah man
the governor's press conference is actually pretty funny, not going to lie.
I've lived in Phoenix my whole life, and while I was only 7 when this happened, I swear I've seen floating lights around more recently. But I think they are some king of military illumination flare they're using for training by the airforce base or something. The ones I've seen more recently don't move and it's usually just a few off in the distance, not flying in any pattern and they're brighter white like the video of the flares you've shown. They could just be lights on the mountains honestly lol. I have no idea what the lights in '97 were. I don't remember them moving in '97 either though, at least not like it's described. Some of the footage almost looks like they're lights sitting on top of the mountain. The mountains in Phoenix are not very tall and they disappear in the darkness.
That sounds like flares
Gotta get that sweet juicy "Hey buddy"
I think I like the early drone explanation. It feels easy to account for every detail:
Drones are small, they wouldn't show up on radar. Their lights can be turned on and off, which could account for the different numbers of lights. As you said, the "craft" between them is just an illusion. People also used to see shapes in the stars because their brains filled the gaps.
The military said they didn't know anything, which could be any number of things: intentionally lying to cover up technology (although, that's best used in Cold War era stuff), maybe they're army drones and the AF had no clue, maybe a test of such small tech wasn't even logged. Hell, maybe a couple guys wanted to mess around and weren't even supposed to be doing it.
Idk, I feel like it ticks all the boxes in my mind.
The variance in number of lights is actually expected from such a large group, the fault in eyewitness accounts.
Perhaps. It is hard to count something moving. But 3 to 9 is a huge gap
the videos and pictures captured are inconsistent too
Awwwww yisss let's go
Hell yeah
I saw something very similar during a late night stroll on the beach some years back. Nobody else was on the beach, just me and my buddy chillin' and enjoying the beach environment at night. No moon in the sky either, so there was heavy cloud cover I guess. And no, we weren't high or anything. Was a bit creepy that night, and both of us felt it. But the cherry on the cake was when we both saw red lights right in front of us, just above the water and maybe 40ft from the shore where we were. We heard something too, but certainly didn't "see" anything -- other than the red lights; which strobed on and off in different parts of the pitch-black night. There was also a strange disturbance on the surface of the water that was messing around with the waves as well. We just stood there watching it, as it seemingly watched us.
It lasted a good six minutes - in a pattern, no less - then "faded" away; along with the strange, low-decibel "humming" sound that accompanied it. The ocean directly in front of us started acting "normal" as well. We stayed there for a few more minutes, but everything had seemingly returned to normal. We hadn't said anything the whole time this was happening; just watching whatever it was that was happening. After it seemingly left, we looked at each other and simply said "I didn't see that, and neither did you".
Needless to say we went right home after that. We spoke more after we got back to my place, but still couldn't figure out what it was that we saw and heard. One thing that makes this moment so creepy is that we both knew and agreed that as we were observing it, so too was it observing us. Dare I say even messing with us in some way.
Aliens? No. Super secret crap that makes almost no noise, can hover PERFECTLY in one spot, and can't be seen or noticed? Yes. This was back in the late 90's early 2000's btw. Just felt like sharing that for some reason...
Secret military tech is the most reasonable explanation.
A formation of aircraft that don't show up on radar that the airforce won't comment on? I WONDER WHAT IT COULD BE?!?!?
Hahaha yeah
I remember watching this on the news and unsolved mysteries.
Greg here doing the hypothetical god's work
Sometimes the cloaking devices malfunction and leave everyone in panic... Relax folks, the aliens are up there everyday...
It was almost as if their cloak failed, thsts how it looked
That kind of drone tech wasn't really a thing back in 97, and you missed out that Fife Symington did a subsequent interview when he admits to seeing what he thought was a gigantic craft himself and that he was told what to say in the previous press conference when he mocked the sighting...if my memory serves me...nice video though :) Lemmino also did a great job of breaking down this event...
I got the n64 in 97. Excellent gaming console for the time. I loved the sega genesis more. Always wanted a sega Saturn, but 500 bucks was steep back then . I was gifted a nice lil tripod mounted telescope for viewing hale bop, it was visible by eye though for me in a rural area.
After all these years, nobody is giving credence to my nocturnal migrating radioactively glowing ducks theory. But, I still hold on to hope.
Doh!
That's a tasty theory...but I'm sticking with my theory that its a Star Destroyer. Must've been a new guy at the wheel who forgot to turn the daytime running lights off.
Good luck bud
> early drone technology
Yes! Exactly my thought.
From a Discovery documentary about the phenomenon I watched as a kid, there were two sightings that night, one would be perfectly explainable by flares (the video you presented, the shape is more of a quarter-circle than a triangle), as near the end the lights went out in a pretty random fashion. If you imposed an image of the mountain range you mentioned on this footage, it seems clear that the flares disappeared behind the peaks.
The other one, with a V or triangle shaped, slow moving craft, boggled me as a kid, but seeing what can be done syncing drones today, I wouldn't put it past the military tech of the 90s.
My friends and I saw the exact same thing around 2008-2009 out in the countryside in Missouri. Maybe the second weirdest thing I've ever seen. We were getting messed up and I'm convinced it was an illusion, but all the friends swear by it blocking out the stars.
PS the science community dropped laser propulsion and the alien community didn't bat an eye...
Iiiiiinteresting
@@armouredskeptic ask me about the weirdest... I wouldn't, it's a long story.
You can only account for most angles when using that tech. Light hits eyes from many ways.
I once saw something like that, lights in a large V pattern gliding silently through the night sky, except the lights weren't really bright, in fact hey looked like stars except they weren't "blinking" like stars can do. Just these tiny blue-white-ish lights. Some others who were with me saw them too.
No idea what they might have been, drones haven't really been a thing back then, no airport in the vacinity, but it was way too silent for them to have been planes or helicopters... unless there are some really quiet types of helis.
Not saying it's alien stuff though.
Cool story
@@armouredskeptic Thanks, really enjoying the recent contest.
So I grew up just a couple miles away from the west Barry Goldwater range and the yuma proving grounds. They test flares pretty often and occasionally they do end up drifting like in some of the pictures. I can’t explain the triangle but I can say with certainty that some of those images are flares being tested on the east Goldwater range
After u mentioned the tr3b. Last December nit far from London it was 10:30pm I work as a Head chef just left work with my boss. We both saw and then stood and watched it for 20 minutes, a huge, triangular shaped craft with a light on each corner it was sat totally still in the sky would of been massive roughle size of a football pitch. Took my breath away most insane thing I've ever seen
I'm sure you know this, AS, but for anyone who doesn't: just because a civilian air-traffic control (ATC) radar doesn't see any planes doesn't mean they aren't there. Civilian ATC radar is actually very low-powered (relatively speaking) and isn't meant to detect planes directly. Instead, it triggers aircraft's onboard identity beacons (I forget the technical name) to send back a pulse with the aircraft's ID and so forth. So an aircraft that's flying with its beacon off is effectively invisible to a civilian airport's radar.
Granted that flying with your beacon off is extremely dangerous, since if ATC doesn't know you're there they may well vector other aircraft they can see right through the same airspace you're in. This can easily cause a collision. If no normal air traffic was in the space, though, it's not too crazy. My point is that any theory involving aircraft is not disproven by the lack of ATC radar sightings. Now, if a proper *military* radar can't pick up something that's clearly visible, that indicates a stealth aircraft, the military lying, or... something else. ^_^
Of the theories you cited, the hologram and drone theories are the only ones that seem to hold any water as far as I can tell. Fascinating as always. :)
Yes, good point
Swamp Gas.
The planet Venus
Right... :p
@@armouredskeptic FLOCKS
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Early Military prototype Airship? We know the military was thinking of such a craft, that being a large heavy lift airship that could lift tanks, troops, and equipment, also acting as mobile base.
Wouldn't that be interesting
Weird, I remember seeing almost exactly a thing like this in the night sky, although the lights were blue and this happened in northern Europe, also seemed to cast light down to the ground level so it was flying way lower possibly
I forget if it was PTEN, or UPN at that point, but we had live streams of the event while it was broadcast in Los Angeles
Oh cool
@@armouredskeptic I think it was PTEN, they had their own independent news, before they were bought out/subsidized. And became the UPN. Also known as channel 13 in LA.
Even if it's short and low rez, the video footage is enough to clearly debunk the flare theory, and the "planes flying in formation" theory : no smoke, and a perfect alinement and syncronized trajectory that would confirm that it's one big v shape craft. And it's also confirmed by the closest witnesses. The number of light changing isn't that suspicious, imo : some of them were just turning on and off.
Also if you want to hear Kurt Russel talk about what he saw in a more detailed and casual way, listen to his commentary with John Carpenter for the "Big Trouble in Little China" dvd.
I saw the Phoenix lights, I was 17 years old in 97'
They really should call this the Arizona lights. They crossed almost all the way across the state. I saw them with some friends while we were playing outside in Northern AZ. My wife and I also saw the more recent event a few years ago.
Some people said, the lights looked inset into something. If they actually were, that could be an Explanation for the varying amounts of lights, because if they were inset into a tube like structure, not all lights would be visible from every position. I do like the explanation that these might have been drones. They wouldn't even have to be Quadrocopters, some lightweight rc planes can fly at very slow speeds.
Good point
4:43 the most impressive depicting a series of out of focus blobs^^ you know, the usual
Haha I thought it was dramatic :p
I remember years ago seeing some investigators looking into this one. They worked with the person who took the video of the 7 lights. They used the original camera he used and set up the camera in the same spot during the day. The lights in that original video all disappeared in an odd order. The investigators superimposed the video of the lights over the video they took during the day. The lights disappeared with the mountain blocking them out.
just so you know, in your intro animation you say there were 7 lights, yet you animate 5.
There are multiple reports saying it was 5. Apparently they didn't all shine the entire time
They are just dropping off the mogollon monster after a beer run.
Kurt Russel, what a man.