Greetings all! Great discussions. Thanks for posting the links to the Phoenix Lights "original" footage! This has been a sore spot for me for quite a while but I never had the footage to show in support of my comments: THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL FOOTAGE! It was shown as late as this AM 3/30/07 on a national morning news show.
In the original footage, the background behind the city was dark, and a string of lights "appeared" in the distance. They were the high-altitude flares (as claimed by the military) being dropped by the A-10 and/or C-130 aircraft. The actual footage does not start until the stings of flares have descended for quite a while. Beyond the city yet in front of the training area is a mountain range (quite visible on Google Earth). As the flares were dispensed, naturally the first out, on the right, are lower than those closer to the plane heading to the left. The separate strings formed a crude chevron shape ("triangle") as they descended. As the string reached the visual height of the mountain, they were of course obscured, one by one. As the angle of the top mountain itself is higher in the middle and sloping down left and right, the blank dark shape of the mountain is essentially outlined by the flares disappearing downward, giving the impression that the lights were outlining a large trangular shape (which they were, it was the mountain!).
In the original footage, the background, including the mountain, was too dark to see. After the footage was released, a follow up was done by a guy investigating the footage. He went to the same site used in the first video, and made a second video that had enough light to show the shape of the mountain. He then superimposed the two videos. It was perfectly clear that each and every descending light (ie flare), disappeared at the exact moment that it was obscured by the edge of or trees on the mountain. Mystery solved for this particular footage? Not really. This simple explanation did nothing to earn viewers and ratings. Subsequently, a majot network did an investigation of "UFO Sightings" featuring the Phoenix Lights. So, which version of the footage did they use?? The dark one of course, with no mountain visible and no mention of it either. It gets much worse though!
It might have been obvious to viewers what was happening, so with clear intent to deceive, they showed the "original footage", yet ran it BACKWARDS!!
Thus, one sees a large set or lights "coming on" around the edge of a large back trainglular shape, and rising up as they go.
On the linked "You Tube" posting, one can see the backwards footage showing the "rising" lights. That just isn't the way it happened!
There were in fact other sightings in and around that same time that were quite interesting and perhaps legitimate. It is sad that this obvious deception serves to taint the credibility of the many other honest witnesses to actual events.
Comments welcome!
-Merlhen
Paranormalfreak101 said:
Check out this interesting video I found on Youtube. This video shows mysterious lights going into formation. The footage was shot in Phoenix, Arizona on June 5th, 2005. Also posted is the origanal Phoenix lights footage.
