Phoenix Lights - the real thing

This timelapse was taken in November 2005 from Kitt Peak. I set up my camera and used a 70mm lens to aim to the northwest in the general direction of the Goldwater Gunnery Range. This timelapse covers almost 5 hours and the activity dies down during the 2nd half. You can see planes and flares and other activity over the range. The golden colored flares are often mistaken for UFOs as was done in March 1997 in an incident called the "Phoenix Lights"

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Airplanes
• UFOs
• Flares

[LRbugger]

I do agree that ufos are real in the conventional sense, but those do not look like ufos. They look more like air flares or something, possibly even a small meteor shower

[jscotti]

Yes, this timelapse is definitely of military flares from airplanes. I've seen them many times, including on the night in March 1997 when they were mis-identified as alien spacecraft from Phoenix, and they are easily recognized.

[tcostabile123]

this video doesn't supports the theory that the phoneix lights were flares. if anything, it shows that the phoenix lights WEREN'T flares. look at the video from 1997 and look at what you have at 72 fps and you'll see that its impossible you've proven anything at all. your flares move independently, the phonix lights didn't move at all

[jscotti]

Actually, at least one of the videos of the "Phoenix Lights" made in 1997 do show the flares falling behind the distant mountains. My images show very much more detail than the original videos do given the longer exposures using a digital camera and then compressed into this timelapse. I saw the March 1997 flares which were identical to what I photographed here and the video and description of the SW Phoenix lights is extremely consistent with what I saw.

[tcostabile123]

jscotti, how could 1 tape show them falling and another doesn't? is it possible they were 2 separate incidents? i appreciate what you saw in 97 and what you taped but here is a distinct difference between this tape and the tape from 97. the lights in 97 didn't fall, sway, anything. they remained in the same position for an extended period of time. im not saying you're right or they are, but i, as someone who wasn't there, would like the explanation to that question...

[jscotti]

A few things - the flares were dropped a great distance away from the Phoenix metropolitan area so the motion is quite slow. My timelapse shows flares that last about 8-15 minutes and are part of a telephoto shot, so the motion is quite magnified. The videos of the Phoenix lights were made from different locations so one might show the flares falling behind mountains while the other wouldn't. The motion is slow and might be hard to see without optical aid like a telescope.

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[USMCandanimallover]

All I have to say is, flares.

[PW4790]

War of the worlds

[CaliforniaGirlsCS]

shooting stars! pretty! lol

[artix2468]

phoenix are not legends not myth but it's mytholengency.

[lufy79]

looks like there fighting in the first couple of seconds lol

[pabb22]

ufo's are real their here in pa by the blue mountains's!! but the world would be in shambles if the conecept of other life existed because realigion and control over people , and sceince would be proven false basically!! a LIL secret to seeing ufo's wait between 11pm and 4am in an area that is mostly corn fields and remote and closly watch for star like objects that are way lower then stars!!