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The earliest documented reports of strange objects in the sky essentially

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define them similarly to early descriptions of flying saucers.

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In the 1600s, reports of strange lights off the coast of the Americas define some of the

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earliest known types of UFO sightings, while in the 1700s, settlers in the New England areas

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recall descriptions of hovering orbs in the skies above the waterways around Boston.

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Today, it's not just flying saucers or lights in the sky that experiencers encounter.

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Cigar shaped craft, tic-tacs from space, and yes, the black triangles.

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Triangular shaped craft began gaining notoriety during the 1980s when a wave of sightings

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swept across the Hudson Valley.

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But it wasn't until 1997 that the national media began focusing on them.

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My name is Lynn D. Ketay M.D.

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I am a medical doctor, had no interest or knowledge in this topic at all, till what

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would become the most historic, most documented, and the most important mass anomalous aerial

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sighting in modern history, if not all of history, called the Phoenix Lights.

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My husband and I are physicians, and healthy skeptics.

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One must be when you're a physician.

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We had a very close sighting to our home.

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We lived mountainside in Paradise Valley, pretty high on the mountain, and have a panoramic

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view of the city skyline, so we know what planes look like in helicopters and street

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lights and so forth.

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These phenomena were very different than anything we'd ever seen before.

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In fact, my husband called me to one wall of our bedroom is a window, so we see whatever

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pops up out there.

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And he noticed that there were three amber orbs, a little below us.

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They were very treacherous desert landscape.

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We live in a gated community nestled in the mountains, so there is no way that it could

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have been military.

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And here, these three orbs in a pyramid formation, one on top and two underneath, were just hovering

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there.

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And most people that have these anomalous experiences don't move.

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They're in awe.

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And I wanted to take everything in mentally, the size, the shape, the color.

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These orbs were about three to six feet each, depending on how close they were.

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They were actually oval shape, like an egg on its side, or like what Navy pilots are

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now describing as tic-tac shape.

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It was a uniform amber color throughout, and it didn't glare at all.

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Every other light out there glared.

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And my husband calls me back, he says, get over here quick, one of them is disappearing.

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And as we both watched and awe, the top orb, without budging from the other two underneath,

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started to implode, shrink, almost like a dimmer switch, getting smaller and smaller

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and smaller.

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Dr. Kite's sighting would be the first of three that culminated with the mass sighting

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on March 13th of what would become widely known as the Phoenix Lights incident.

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Between 1995 and 1997, Lynn would begin studying the UFO subject, and paid closer attention

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to the sky above her desert home.

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Lynn's next sighting would occur in January 1997, two months prior to the Phoenix anomaly.

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But what she witnessed that night bears close similarities to the craft that would make

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its way overhead in March later that same year.

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I was lying in bed, and I happened to notice three huge amber ores, but at a distance, far

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west.

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And I thought, wait a minute, they're amber.

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They're in a line formation, they're hovering for moments, minutes, which is ironic because

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two months later, thousands of people who saw the Phoenix Lights phenomenon on March

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13th, 1997, would describe them as five lights in a V formation with two trailing.

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But this was two months before.

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And I watched as each one imploded, they seemed to shrink from right to left, and they were

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gone.

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Now, triangles and tic-tacs are weird enough.

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But the history of unidentified objects in the US goes back further than most people

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realize.

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In researching the UFO subject, I found a string of reports of unidentified craft which

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hovered over major cities and small towns alike, seemingly wanting to be seen.

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No, this wasn't the Phoenix Lights or any number of other modern-day mass-citing events,

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it was the Great Airship Waves.

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And they occurred well over a century ago.

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To start to understand the full scope of what is being seen overhead today, it's almost

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a necessity to take a look back at what people were seeing in the past.

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To look back through American history, there's probably no better place to start than New

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York.

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And there's few as schooled in the history of strange objects in the sky than Linda

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Zimmerman.

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Linda is a researcher and author located in upstate New York, who has written a number

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of books on UFOs, particularly of sightings and encounters in the Hudson Valley area.

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Linda's knowledge of the UFO subject comes from a lifelong interest in the phenomenon

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and from decades' worth of experience interviewing witnesses.

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The oldest sightings I'm aware of are probably in the 1700s, colonial accounts of strange

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objects in the sky, certainly by the 1800s there were a lot.

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The biggest earliest wave that I've been able to find was 1908, 1909.

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The mysterious airships, as they called them, they weren't called UFOs yet.

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But these were enormous craft that could hover.

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They could fly an extremely high rate of speed and carried one to three extremely bright

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spotlights.

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There simply were no craft that we mere mortals had at that point that had those flight characteristics

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didn't exist.

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These cases are just incredible.

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I remember reading about them years ago.

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They dubbed them airships.

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So in the 1890s there was this whole outbreak of sightings and encounters that people were

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having with airships.

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They didn't know what else to call them.

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And they actually looked like, for me it kind of evokes sort of a steampunk version of a

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zeppelin or something because you read these cases and these people are talking about these

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massive ships.

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Sometimes there's different kind of gears and fins and things like that.

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They see these crafts, sometimes they land, sometimes they encounter the occupants.

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A lot of them were described as gloom or zephyrs or that sort of thing.

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Although dirigibles of this type were not very popular, especially not here in the United

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States.

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There was a little bit of research into that but most of that was going on in Europe.

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In the area where I live in the Southern Hudson Valley there were sightings many, many nights.

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Airships would be out commenting on these enormous bright lights like as if they were

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searching for something.

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Worcester, Massachusetts in Christmas of 1909, tens of thousands of people were just spilling

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out of their homes and businesses to see the mysterious airships that sometimes would circle

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overhead for hours and hours.

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You get these farmers and people living in rural areas who really just don't know what

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to think.

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All of a sudden there's this flying craft.

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You can imagine what that was like in the late 1800s, you know, well before airplanes

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and so forth.

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Suddenly there were these huge ships that are coming down from somewhere.

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One night there was a sighting.

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It went as far from New York City to Boston in a single night, witnesses all along the

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way.

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These were just long sustained flights.

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These are some of the earliest cases that we get.

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This whole rash of airship sightings and encounters are sort of a subset of the identifications

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of UFOs.

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When you see these stunning reports basically from here to Canada and out to the Midwest

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over a two year period, how else do you explain that?

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When people were seeing that sort of thing here in the United States I think that really

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was a genuine mystery.

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When we get into later periods of course descriptions get somewhat more consistent, but only to

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a degree.

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Dean Merchant is something of a ufological historian.

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He's based in New Hampshire, not far from the site of one of the more famous encounter

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stories near Exeter.

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It's apparent that his love of the subject has placed him in a unique position as a gatekeeper

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for information that others might otherwise let slip through the cracks.

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So Kenneth Ottel was a really cool part of the UFO history.

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He was a pilot himself.

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He saw, I had been seven craft and they have to check on that, but he saw the craft and

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he kind of chased out and got a very good look at him.

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He knew that this was something that was not basically of this world.

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He came back and reported them and talked about them, trying to describe how they acted.

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He said if you could picture a saucer skipping on the water and that kind of was coined.

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But actually a lot of them, see I have just in just shapes, these were more of the wing

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like the B2 stealth bomber which interests me.

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They had that kind of flying wing shape that he saw.

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At that time this became a great interest for the press.

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The movie genre was going to be starting soon.

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All of this stuff was milling around post world work too, just about to hit the early 50s.

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So there was a lot of interest with the media.

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Stan Gordon has been taking reports of UFOs in the state of Pennsylvania since the 1960s.

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In that time he's become known as the go-to source of information relating to anomalous

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phenomena on the western edge of the state.

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And he's authored multiple books on a number of strange subjects.

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He's also spent decades researching a purported crash of one of America's many supposed

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crashed unknown objects near the village of Kecksburg.

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Which makes him a very valuable resource when it comes to identifying trends, if they exist,

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in craft descriptions.

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Well of course going back many, many years and you still get some of these reports.

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You had your typical big disc.

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And I can tell you during the 1960s there were many, many incidents here in Pennsylvania.

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A very large structured metallic objects, big discs, many with portholes in it, very

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low to the ground.

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There's a common accepted idea of the flying saucer, you know, that literally looks like

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maybe a pair of plates, you know, or a saucer.

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If you turn it upside down that's flying.

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A lot of people were reporting those types of crafts.

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And there were landing reports.

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In fact there was one that happened only a mile from where we were sitting a year ago.

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Probably one of my favorite stories.

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Unfortunately both witnesses are now deceased.

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There were two brothers.

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It was February 1968.

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The older brother gets married in February 1968 and he and his new wife, they rent a small

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farmhouse not far from here.

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One afternoon we look out the window, about 50 feet off the ground, here's this huge metallic

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dome shaped object with portholes like a catwalk hovering right there.

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He can't believe what he's seeing.

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He steps outside, he calls his wife and as we're looking at this thing these small little

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humanoid creatures come out on the catwalk like communicating with each other and they'll

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look directly at them.

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It's starting to snow.

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He goes back in the house, he calls his brother in Greensburg who believed in this.

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He and his wife come out.

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When they get there it's still there but it's about 100 feet off the ground.

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It's starting to snow pretty good and as they watch this thing suddenly it shoots off across

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the sky into the heavens, looks like a red star crossing the sky and disappears.

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And they call the local airport and they said, you're one of many people calling in and report

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the same thing.

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There would be variations on them.

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Sometimes they would have windows along the side, sometimes a window on the top or dome.

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1930s we started getting circular craft, you know your classic flying saucers.

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Certainly that was the model of choice in the 40s and 50s and early 60s.

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But then we have all these other variations of these ships.

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The cigar shape is another one that was really reported quite often initially and that was

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this idea that it was a larger craft going back to that balloon type of shape or zeppelin

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type of shape but it's more of a metallic looking cigar shape.

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We have many reports for years and years of the big metallic cigar shaped object including

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as we're filming here in the last week some very detailed sightings up in Cambria County

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where something like this is being seen by independent observers 100 feet, 200 feet off

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the ground.

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Very close range reports coming in.

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Do you notice a, I don't know if this is just me, but do you notice a weird sort of correlation

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between UFO descriptions and the era in which they're taking place technologically?

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So there are phases that go on.

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The typical flying saucer, the round disc shaped object that we saw so much in the 50s

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seemed to be you know more of something that was happening during that era and we haven't

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seen so much since then.

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So there are kind of trends that seem to happen here and there.

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Gee, weird.

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In the midst of that we also had craft that resembled a little bit closer to the bomber,

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the stealth bomber.

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Then the triangles, the triangles, Vs and boomerangs of the 1980s.

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The signature events of the waves of the 1980s were triangular shaped craft that almost always

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were described as the size of a football field would descend down to treetop level.

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I had people tell me they could have hit it with a baseball or rock, a tennis ball.

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That's how close these were.

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Larger craft that reported for instance in the Phoenix lights, you know these massive,

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hesitate to use the word almost, but mother ships you know has some people dubbed them.

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Absolutely silent.

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Most people said eerily quiet, dead silent.

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One witness said it was like a city of lights, hundreds and hundreds of multicolored lights.

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Triangles where something new, that wasn't something as abundant as it has been more

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recently.

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Although, these triangles sightings have been going on for quite some time, but it just

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seems like more.

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So again, the ability to hover in place for extremely long periods of time and then shoot

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off in the blink of an eye.

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There was one man that impressed me in particular, Mike Hartnett.

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He actually became one of the highest ranking members of the New York City fire department.

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This was not a skittish man at all and he had one of these massive triangles move very,

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very slowly over his house and being one of New York's bravest he got a very bright like

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million candle power light and he flashed it at this object and in response all of its

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lights dimmed and then came back on in direct response to him.

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Sean Kevin Jason witnessed a black triangle for himself on a desert road somewhere between

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Las Vegas and Rachel Nevada.

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Sean has spent a time following his sighting, further exploring the subject and fully admits

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he hopes to have another encounter.

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What Sean witnessed though is distinctly different from the Phoenix lights phenomenon or the

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typical triangular shaped UFO craft descriptions and his theories as to what was piloting the

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craft make his sighting stand out.

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It was a slow night.

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Business was slow.

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Jumped on the highway headed out of town until I hit the apex exit and got off at apex

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where you head on 93 highway 93 heading towards area 51 right when I'm getting to the end

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of that turn off in the distance I see these lights by this time it was a right around

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10 o'clock.

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I see lights off the head and I think okay you know there's another car ahead in my

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way didn't think anything of it at first and continued driving.

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I was a little concerned because you know this was the time before cell phones that

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sort of thing so if someone's in trouble am I going to stop to help them.

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So I'm driving a little ways thinking about this when it dawned on me that lights were

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not on the road they're hovering over the road because I can see the lights over the

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road and then I can see the illuminated road underneath these lights.

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So I had a pair of binoculars with me and I decided to try to get a view of the craft

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through my binoculars as I'm driving.

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I'm trying to drive while I'm using them at the same time I can definitely see the lights

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better with the binoculars and tell something for sure is over the road.

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So I had tossed binoculars in my back seat and decided to just floor it you know push

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the car as fast as I could to get there before this craft leaves.

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It didn't take long at all before I found myself pulling up underneath the craft and

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parking my car.

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There's lights and a delta formation like this and it's just a pitch black craft perfect

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equilateral triangle you know it's hovering roughly around 20 feet over the road completely

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silent making no noise at all.

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The craft was actually darker than the sky behind it.

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I'm sitting there and just dumbfounded you know and all.

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At one point I decided to pinch my arm just kind of like you know am I really awake it's

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just really happening and I had done so so hard that I wanted to draw blood from my arm.

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So I'm thinking if I can grab my binoculars I might be able to make out any logo or you

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know identification.

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I had thrown them in the back seat so I turned around see them right away they were lying

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on the floor behind the passenger seat grabbed them turned back around and the craft is gone.

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And I'm thinking at this point you know it's totally gone I'm not going to see it again

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so I start scanning the horizon.

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I catch it again to my seven o'clock position and it actually got a good ways down the valley

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from me and just that short period of time.

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Like I said it was flying to the seven o'clock position and then it made a right heading

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you know basically north towards the mountains.

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It's just a bizarre thing to see as this thing slowly crept up the side of the mountain

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and you see it hit the top and it just drops down the other side of it.

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So today we know that a number of early sightings of triangular shaped craft might be written

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off as stealth bombers undergoing testing particularly in the western part of the country.

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It doesn't account however for the large number of sightings in recent years and certainly

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can't account for the sightings of craft that seem to be city sized.

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Still more recently the face of the phenomena continues to change and this is evidenced in

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the abbreviation used by many within the research community changing from UFO for unidentified

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flying object to UAP for unidentified aerial phenomena.

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Tic-Tacs and craft referred to as gimbals are being seen in the skies and further along

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we come the more obvious it is that we are leaving behind the days of only reports of

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the classic flying saucers.

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But like the old adage goes more things change the more they stay the same.

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So you've got all these different reports from so many different people just like the

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sighting last week on Canberra County.

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I got the first report that evening from a witness who saw this thing very low very foggy area

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big solid cigar shape object but he said the entire object was glowing luminous not separate

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windows it was completely luminous he said it would suddenly fade out and disappear reappear

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again fade out and disappear and it's gone and this got very familiar with aircraft.

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When I was talking about these military encounters typically what they're encountering is an

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orb of light some kind of bright round or elliptical shaped object and that's been going on for years.

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The most typical craft that have been reported to me personally have been mostly triangular

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or mostly lights just lights in the sky whether it's orbs or just unnatural formations of

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lights that seems to be where we are right now in terms of the the amount of reports

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coming in a lot of people think that UFO reports have dwindled a lot in the past decade or so

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I don't know if it's what that is what that represents but there seems to be a decrease in the amount of UFOs being reported.

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The ones being reported are mostly lights in the sky I would say.

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In the 1800s it was balloons and wooden ships that sort of thing you know in the 40s and 50s

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especially once we started building our jets they were typically shiny silver craft when the F-117 came around

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and the B-2 stealth bomber now we're getting into black triangular designs but it's curious that the dimensions

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to shape the color of these craft often mirror where our aviation is at the time.

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What's become more apparent in recent years is the bleeding together of various quote-unquote

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craft shapes and sizes.

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Small craft are seen gaining mass while large craft dwindle to small lights that flitter away in the night sky

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like ashes from a dying fire.

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All of this points to just one reason why many consider the Phoenix Lights event of 1997 one of the most fascinating cases in recent memory.

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On March 13th 1997 between the hours of 7.30 in 10.30 p.m. thousands of people across the city of Phoenix

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and the surrounding area witnessed a series of lights in a V formation floating across the night sky.

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The event encompassed a number of descriptive regarding UAPs that helps illustrate just how varied these strange things people are seeing can be.

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In 1997 there was an incident called the Phoenix Lights incident and it's become probably one of the most famous cases in recent UFO history.

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It involved a large number of people obviously in the Phoenix area who reported seeing a massive craft moving through the sky completely silent.

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Many people called and most people called between 8 and 10 that night because most people were outside looking up at the Hava Kamen at that time.

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But the mass sighting of anomalous aerial phenomena would not only appear in Arizona but starting at 3 p.m. in the afternoon

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daylight sighting in Arizona.

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5 o'clock hour they were seen by Native Americans in New Mexico. 7 o'clock hour in California.

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11 o'clock hour they were actually reported by two separate airline commercial pilots who reported one of these massive over mile wide craft covering Las Vegas.

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In his time working with Aerojet Ron Regier was tasked with multiple classified projects. Chief of which was the Defense Support Program.

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A satellite used to keep a close watch on the airspace above the United States as well as the rest of the world.

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In his time involved in the program he witnessed a number of unusual phenomena detected on the infrared system including the Phoenix Lights.

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The Phoenix Lights which everybody's heard of we tracked those from just south of area 51 down to Tucson.

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When you say track them can you elaborate on that a little bit?

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Yeah our satellite is in geosynchronous Earth orbits so it's always looking and we put three of them around the Earth and that gives us full binary vision coverage of the entire Earth's surface 24-7.

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Phoenix Lights we first picked those up just south of area 51 which is northeast of Las Vegas. Don't know where originated from or that's just when it became within our spectrum.

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It came all the way down past Phoenix and then went down and then went out of sight just north of Tucson.

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Do you know how big that was or how big it might have been?

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Well it could be eight separate objects or it could have been one big object. I don't know.

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Air traffic controllers at Sky Harbor International Airport so the same exact thing took their high powered binoculars to look and what they described was six equidistant points of light that seemed to be attached to something over a mile wide.

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But they couldn't quite see what these lights were attached to and you would hear that again by thousands of people and they were alarmed because there is a 30 mile radius around the center of the airport called class B restricted airspace.

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Anyone that comes into that airspace especially a thousand feet altitude that these were must call into the tower but no one did.

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Often these sightings the craft or whatever it is seems to be wanting people to see it.

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So it's not like people see triangle craft often but when they do see them they're often extraordinary circumstances.

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For instance you know you've got the Phoenix lights that happened in in 97 and that was a big deal.

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Governor Friess Simington says he saw those lights and what he says is taken seriously.

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He goes as far as to say he believes that they are from somewhere else that what he saw was a craft from from out of this world essentially.

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The last report I received credible report personally was from a Boeing crewman who was coming into work with his crew at 5 30 a.m. the next morning at Sky Harbor International Airport.

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And so one of these mile wide craft hovering over their tarmac.

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So it was for many many hours over a dozen hours and there were many activities happening in many areas at the same time during the mass sighting.

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A lot of people don't realize actually that the Phoenix lights were also seen in Nevada and the Vegas area and other regions.

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So this was a very concentrated wave of sightings that a large number of witnesses saw.

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And the fascinating thing about that is that again we still have no answers.

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Now we have really evolved since the 90s to actually looking at the data now that more and more credible people are coming forward including our own former Arizona governor.

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Who admits that he saw one of these mile wide craft and that it was otherworldly.

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And now that Navy pilots are coming forward and sharing that what they're seeing the technology is so far passes any technology that we have here on art that we know about.

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The whole thing is really evolving to a good place a much better place of people being ready being ready to learn about the topic and being ready to accept the technology.

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That this is real.

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At the turn of the 20th century it was airships which became flying saucers which became cigar shaped objects and then triangles and on and on.

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This is where it was first seen or they were first seen the Phoenix lights.

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The phenomena first appeared in the sky above the Prescott Valley then moved over the town of Dewey before finally making its way over the city in the direction of Sky Harbor Airport.

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It's a sobering thing to come to a place like this and look up into the same sky where something so important happened over 20 years ago.

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Before a lot of witnesses the event passes and is then forgotten.

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A string of lights passing in the night no doubt was easily forgotten for most people when they're completely unaware that what they're seeing is something extraordinary.

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But for others like Lynn it was the beginning.

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A door opened she stepped through and now there won't be any going back.

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It makes you feel very small to stare up into the sky and wonder if they're still here and if they are and you're one of those who catch a glimpse.

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Just what it is you'll see.

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Coming up on the next episode of On the Trail of UFOs.

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Over the last several weeks of people in this area have been reporting high altitude objects in the sky they're not familiar with.

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You'll find that there are areas particularly in the United States and around the world that seemingly have a high concentration of sightings.

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Places like Point Pleasant West Virginia or Chestnut Ridge, Sedona.

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So the Hudson Valley UFO waves started with the police and kind of ended with the police.

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They actually investigated all these cases.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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They found out that the UFOs were in the area.

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