The Unexplained Phoenix Lights Phenomenon

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Published 2018-05-18
Lights in the sky. Extraterrestrials, or something even stranger? Featuring alien expert Giorgio Tsoukalos, host of History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens.”

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All Comments (21)
  • @catalatus
    The aliens turning on the light to the basement forgetting about a whole civilization living there: oopsies
  • this happened EXACTLY 4 years before i was born so my older sister used to tell me it was my real parents dropping me off
  • @joeyharper4976
    For people that don't know, 700 people called 911 about these lights/craft. But an estimated 15,000-20,000 people saw this.
  • @patton303
    A great story is Kurt Russell was flying his son to Phoenix that night in his private plane and he saw these lights and called the tower about it and they had no idea what it was. He forgot all about it until he was watching a UFO show about it and they said a civil aviation pilot reported it and he realized it was him.
  • @helenvoss
    Somehow the appearance of the alien meme guy was the plot twist of the decade
  • @Procrastian
    This is so creepy to me and I don't know why. Normally aliens don't freak me out but the idea that something that massive, so colossal, could just be hovering over my town, making no noise, makes me anxious
  • @lescorlett4133
    It still gets me that Kurt Russell was one of the witnesses. While flying his plane and getting ready to land, he radioed the control tower asking if anybody else could see the lights. Worried that they may interfere with his approach to the airfield.
  • Is anyone going to mention how the councilwomen asked an innocent question and was literally ridiculed and picked apart for it. That's the real true crime here smh
  • @HOGISIMJAYUN
    Somewhere in a parallel universe. Some aliens are talking about a little planet that they've visited in 1997
  • @ChloHB
    You know, I find it rather strange the way the question "Do aliens exist?" is often phrased. Of course we're not alone in the universe, or at least it's extremely unlikely considering how vast the universe is and the astronomical number of planets existing. Still, the universe being so massively big is also why it's unlikely aliens have ever made contact with us. Yet people tend to phrase it that way: either aliens exist and they've come to Earth or they just don't exist, where is the nuance in that? I do have to say though, the Phoenix lights are the most compelling case for real UFOs. All other UFO stories I've heard of always seemed to be stretches and wishful thinking to me but this one? I genuinely can't think of any explanation.
  • @grimysw8518
    The way they described "couldn't actually see the mass, could only tell something was blocking the light from the stars" is actually something I've seen a few times myself before ever even hearing about this story, just without the lights.. it's uncanny.
  • @larwhoe9612
    Alien Youtuber: Driving in my UFO (GONE WRONG!!)
  • @abigailsalmanac
    “Open-minded people, like the three of us.” Shane: 🤨
  • @iridiumscribe4915
    I was around 7 or 8 when this happened. I completely forgot about this occurrence until I started to watch this. I remember my mother being scared for her life and my father joking around whistling the X-Files theme in the car, to creep her out more the night after this happened, when we were going to get dinner. We were living in Las Vegas at the time this happened. Now as an adult, I don't know what to really believe.
  • @jaymeese7714
    i saw the Phoenix lights, i was in my apartment complex as they flew overhead . they were silent, and i remember looking to see if i could spot stars behind them...which i could. so to me they were lights in a V formation. i still don't know what i saw, but they were not flares as far a i could tell. I was used to seeing military planes as well because i was stationed at Luke AFB from 1986-1989. others saw it different than i did, i guess that amazes me...wish i had a video camera at the time!
  • @BradRoberts1999
    Are we just not gonna talk about the fact they got the "I'm not saying it was aliens... But it was aliens" meme guy on the show ?
  • @AndArrington
    Buzzfeed producers to Ryan: maybe less aliens??? Ryan: no.
  • Alien 1: “hey, wanna see something funny?” flashes lights Alien 2: “stop it, you’ll scare the inferior life forms” Alien 1: “wait, trust me. Now we tune into their planetary news broadcasts.” The Real Explanation
  • I was there that thing was unimaginably massive and silent i remember having my tegu lizard outside on our porch for about 10 minutes or so when I noticed he looked up and made a mad dash for the front door scratching at it never seen a large lizard act so spooked so when I stepped off the porch to take a look at what I thought was some arrogant predatory bird, but what i saw directly above a few thousand feet or so is still ingrained in my memory still to this day...