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  1. Ryan S.

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    definitely different...been waiting to see video of stuff like this being made with new cameras....
     
  2. djui5

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    It's just lights on the wings of an aircraft. Might be some new prototype military craft that has a different shape than normal craft, but I believe 100% it's from some kinda human aircraft.
     
  3. agup48

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    If it is, then the military denied it. They said the milarty said they had nothing in the skies.
     
  4. ski_bum

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    ....like the blackbird, F117, B2 bomber.....expect to see $500 hammers & $2000 toilet seats in next years budget. :)
     
  5. agup48

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    Yeah, i kind of realized that afterwards, that the military hides stuff.
     
  6. REMIX

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    They're sky lanterns.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0QtdpgT41k

    http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/04/lights-over-pho.html

    Unusual red lights that hovered over Phoenix on Monday night captured the attention of Arizonans and reprised an infamous UFO siting in 1997.

    Alas, it turns out it was just a nocturnal prank, according to local media:

    The man, who did not want to be identified, said he used fishing line to attach road flares to helium-filled balloons, then lit the flares and launched them a minute apart from his back yard. He said he believed turbulence created by a passing jet caused the balloons to move around. ...

    “I feel bad for the people freaking out about this,” Lino Mailo, who watched his neighbor launch the balloons, told the Arizona Republic. “I could've put this whole thing to rest.”

    Here's how another writer at theArizona Republic (a Gannett cousin of USA TODAY) initially explained the light show:

    There were absolutely four lights. They appeared to hover in the sky.

    They looked red or white, and they flickered. They were visible for nearly 15 minutes on Monday night.

    The lights were seen by, among others, a Phoenix police-helicopter pilot, air-traffic controllers and a reporter. There was even an extended videotape.

    But the lights were a mystery. A mystery that generated a lot of interest. ...

    Here are photos.

    Many residents recalled the "Phoenix Lights" of March 1997. A Village Voice writer who worked in Phoenix at the time sets everyone straight (mostly the media) about that night's two events and the official explanation for only one.

    UFO Evidence has an archive of articles and documents pertaining to the "Phoenix Lights." YouTube has a "documentary."
     
  7. Ryan S.

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    lol
     
  8. Robin

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    The sad thing is that the tinfoil hat wearers will still insist that it really was aliens and that this explanation is an elaborate gov't cover-up. The same thing happened back in 1991 when the two guys who started the crop circle craze revealed their secret. Regardless of the fact that they showed how they did them, started actually SIGNING their names to their patterns, writing out words in English, etc, people STILL believe that aliens are flying in from other galaxies to draw patterns in wheat fields. The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.

    -R
     
  9. Horsefly

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    So you're one of those stupid people who actually believe that TWO guys can run around all over England, forming hundreds of EXTREMELY intricate crop circles in the darkness of night, all by themselves, without anybody ever catching one glimpse of them in the act?

    I guess you also believe that ONE guy with giant plywood feet can account for every Bigfoot sighting across dozens of states for over fifty years?

    And you believe that ONE guy, who refuses to identify himself, launched a few Chinese laterns into the sky and was responsible for the latest Phoenix sightings, and therefore it ALSO explains everything that occured 10 years ago across the entire state of Arizona where such triangular UFOs were seen by thousands of people?

    YOUR tin foil hat is waiting for you at the post office. (And by the way,...they switched to ALUMINUM foil decades ago.)
     
  10. Horsefly

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    And furthermore..........

    If these ludicrous sky laterns are the explanation for everything seen over Phoenix, then it should be NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER to duplicate the feat and show the citizens what they were actually seeing.

    Strange that they never bother to do this, in front of news cameras, to CLEARLY show how the public was being duped.

    Or course they couldn't duplicate the scenario, because sky laterns were NOT what people were seeing in 1997.
     
  11. SrfCity

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    It's Steve Fossett's ghost. He's still a little pissed that the US military blew him to bits.
     
  12. djui5

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    <--------Idiot :)
     
  13. Akira

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    If it was lanterns with balloons. Shouldn't it move apart or drift apart? The video showed that 4 lights held formation. I am sure it was hoax, but there is small chance that someone just wanted to take credit for something they didn't do.
     
  14. ski_bum

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    More importantly, why was this idiot putting flaming objects airborne and potentially causing a fire?
     
  15. REMIX

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    http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=8213676

    PHOENIX (AP) - Phoenix residents and the media still are abuzz over the mysterious four red lights that appeared in Monday night's sky in north Phoenix.

    But a man who lives on the north side of the city claims he's responsible.

    He told KTVK-TV that he used fishing line to attach road flares to helium-filled balloons, then lit the fares and launched them a minute apart from his back yard.

    A Phoenix Police Department helicopter pilot who witnessed the lights said they appeared to be flares, possibly hanging from one or more helium balloons.

    Witnesses said the lights initially appeared to be in a straight line, then formed a square and then a triangle before disappearing.

    The man interviewed, who asked not to be identified, said he believed turbulence created by a passing jet caused the balloons to move around.

    Information from: KTVK-TV, http://www.azfamily.com/

    Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
     
  16. Robin

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    Considering the fact that there's video all over the net of people creating "intricate" crop circles in less than 15 minutes with nothing more than 2x4s and rope, yes I do believe these guys. Not to mention the fact that just because these two guys started them, doesn't mean they were the only ones capable of creating them. I'm sure some other brilliant minds in the area thought it was funny that so many morons could be so easily duped, so they started copy catting them. Do you think Doug and Dave were the only two people in the world who knew that you could stomp on wheat with 2x4s in order to flatten it out? If that wasn't enough, they did several crop circles with two large D's in them, since both of their names start with D. Of course the tinfoil hats all looked at them sideways and claimed they were flying saucers. Hilarious stuff. I'm really surprised that anyone could still believe this is anything other than people stomping on wheat.

    Oh look, humans making crop circles with 2x4s!!! http://www.circlemakers.org/

    -R
     
  17. Pantera

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    F22 Raptors training at night.
     
  18. Horsefly

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    So,.....how many of those alleged crop circle makers were ever spotted in the fields at night and videotaped making their amazing designs? And how many of them have demonstrated their amazing abilities in broad daylight for everybody to see?

    And since they admit that THEY were responsible for everything,....when were they arrested for destroying the farmer's crops?

    I'm sure the farmers have a big laugh every time those wacky crop circle makers start tromping through their fields at night, destroying a few hundred bushels of grain. I know that if somebody admitted to prowling around my field at night, destroying my crops, I wouln't call the police and have them arrested, I'd just have a great big laugh about it.
     
  19. Horsefly

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