Phoenix ufo mystery solved

Is this proof that the "official explanation" is wrong, and that the lights remain unexplained? The news reporter may simply have misspoken, or the videomaker may not have looked at his watch to note the exact time, or the Skyhawks team may even have performed the jump a little earlier than advertised.

The fact that some details don't match up perfectly or that some eyewitness statements may be wrong or inexact doesn't mean that the explanations are wrong. For many conspiracy theorists nothing is as it seems, and simple explanations are viewed with suspicion. In their minds, it's ridiculous to think that flares in the night sky in military exercises, or attached to balloons or skydivers could account for the mysterious UFO lights.

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Make sure your replies stay on topic. Review the Patch Community Guidelines. Reply to this article Reply. Of course, as with the previous UFO lights seen over Phoenix, there will likely be some people who reject this latest explanation as inadequate, or smell a cover-up. For example, some suggest that the timing is wrong for skydivers to explain the Phoenix UFO lights seen Oct. The Fox 10 news report clearly states that the high school video was taken at about p.

Is this proof that the "official explanation" is wrong, and that the lights remain unexplained? The news reporter may simply have misspoken, or the videomaker may not have looked at his watch to note the exact time, or the Skyhawks team may even have performed the jump a little earlier than advertised. The fact that some details don't match up perfectly or that some eyewitness statements may be wrong or inexact doesn't mean that the explanations are wrong. For many conspiracy theorists nothing is as it seems, and simple explanations are viewed with suspicion.

In their minds, it's ridiculous to think that flares in the night sky in military exercises, or attached to balloons or skydivers could account for the mysterious UFO lights. Image: Flares in the sky - like the military flares seen here during the Lebanon-Israel conflict in - can be misidentified as UFOs.

The strange lights, which were seen by hundreds of people and videotaped by at least two of them, seemed to move slowly in the sky, sometimes blinking randomly. The entire sighting lasted for about a minute and a half. According to Fox 10 News, one fan at the high school took a video and posted it to YouTube, where within days it became one of the top stories on Yahoo News, sparked "a national mystery" and garnered over 50, views.

Several explanations were put forth to explain the mysterious lights, ranging from helicopters to camera lens flares. But of course the favored explanation was spacecraft: did we finally have good video proof that mankind is being visited by aliens?

Others weren't so sure and suggested that the bright lights resembled nighttime skydivers with flares. To some this explanation seemed even more outlandish than extraterrestrial spacecraft flying by to watch a high school football game: What would skydivers be doing with flares in the night sky? And if they were skydivers and had done this before, why wouldn't people have known about it, or recognized it?