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The following program deals with controversial subjects.

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The theories expressed are not the only possible interpretation.

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The viewer is invited to make a judgment based on all available information.

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Tonight on Sightings, have our shuttle astronauts captured photographic proof of real star wars between extraterrestrials and our military?

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Then, for almost two centuries, this small Texas town has witnessed bizarre glowing balls of light.

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Are they natural phenomenon or alien spacecraft?

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Tonight, the mystery of the Marfa Lights.

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The Space Shuttle Discovery

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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White.

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Tonight, startling new pictures of a UFO encounter that has top analysts locked in a heated debate.

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The authenticity of the pictures is above suspicion, because they were taken by specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

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For the past year, the United States government has avoided discussing what is potentially the most important 30 seconds of video footage to have emerged from the US space program.

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The footage looks fairly innocuous, but some believe that something is going on here NASA doesn't want us to know about.

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On September the 12th, 1991, STS-48 lifted off into space for what NASA officials expected to be a routine shuttle mission.

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But what Discovery's cameras would capture high above the Earth during that mission would prove to be anything but routine.

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I heard one or two of the astronauts exclaim on shortwave radio, what is that? What is that?

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NASA says the objects could be space ice, satellites or debris.

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Ufologists interpret the footage as either alien spacecraft engaged in armed battle or an armed response to alien spacecraft by SDI, the so-called Star Wars Defense System.

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This particular day they were flying over the Philippines.

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You'll see what looks like stars in the sky and then you'll see these objects off to the right of the screen.

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Within a couple of minutes you will see an object come out of the clouds to the north part of your screen and it's heading to the north-northwest.

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In about four or five seconds you'll see a flash in the lower left hand corner of the screen and then you'll see a streak of light go by that object.

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Just missed it there and the one in the lower right hand corner of the screen.

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What's being enacted up there is basically a contact with an alien civilization and that those particular craft are not from here.

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The flash that we're seeing is probably a mechanism of Star Wars.

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Is this finally concrete proof that we're being visited by intelligent light from another planet?

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Space industry officials answer with an emphatic no.

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A lot of things we see on the pictures from space are things we're used to seeing here in the control center down here in Houston.

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They're ordinary events that surround the spaceship.

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Pieces coming off, water dumps, pieces of ice insulation.

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There's little pieces, 10 maybe 20 feet away from the camera.

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And as they're flowing across the field of view of the camera, there's a flash of light as one of the maneuvering jets on the shuttle fires under autopilot control.

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Anything floating out there is like opening your door on a windy day and watching the dust in your house blow out.

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The burst of gas from the jet pushes these little pieces of debris and off they go.

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If that is true, why doesn't the horizon line and the curvature of the Earth's latitude change when that rocket fires in the upper left quadrant or to the west side?

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And NASA's explanation defies the laws of physics, according to University of Nebraska at Omaha physicist Dr. Jack Katcher.

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NASA's claim is that these are all pieces of ice and that this flash down here was an attitude rocket adjuster to adjust the position of the shuttle.

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So it's going to push it in a certain direction and the exhaust came up like this.

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Well, if that happened, then the particles should move up in this direction.

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Those two pretty well fit that scenario, but I have a real problem with the rest of them because, first of all, this one just starts here and continues on down this way just straight the whole time.

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Now that's the wrong direction for an exhaust in this direction too.

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So I really have a lot of trouble seeing how you could make an explanation like that work.

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Analysis by aerospace propulsion expert David Fronheim refutes NASA's belief that the objects are conventional spacecraft.

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Its behavior doesn't look like a normal orbital debris.

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To make a turn like that in a conventional vehicle would just be impossible.

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And to do that, you really have to actually warp and twist space.

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These certainly do appear to be objects that are intelligently controlled.

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NASA has issued several statements insisting the UFOs are chunks of space ice,

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but they refuse to comment on two additional sightings that occurred later in the mission.

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Here, one object is intercepted by a rocket-like projectile.

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The object continues as more projectiles pass.

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Later on the dark side of the Earth, another object comes into view.

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Soon, a second faster moving object nearly collides with the first, then continues out of frame.

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What if then they were extraterrestrial craft?

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Well then, there are some very scary things happening here.

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Was it some kind of a missile that we were firing at them with?

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And if that's the case, then why did we do that?

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It implies we're prepared to do that, that we're almost expecting to encounter these things,

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and then we're hostile to them.

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Is our military prepared to launch offensive strikes against incoming UFOs?

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Government officials won't respond.

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It's not a question of whether there is a government cover up about UFOs.

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There is. It's the most highly classified topic in all the government and military.

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Has the military secretly developed SDI beyond public knowledge, despite their denials?

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There have been developments for the Space Defense Initiative of particle beam systems

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that could have particle beams with the kinds of speeds that we saw going straight up into space.

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And if that is the case, why are we shooting at them?

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It implies that we expected to see them and that we were ready to shoot, and then we did shoot, so we considered them hostile.

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You can look at these kind of lights, these kind of reports of the flying saucers coming around our spaceships.

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In terms of exploration, this is very traditional.

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These are our sea serpents. These are our mermaids.

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they could see little things on the horizon, they would misinterpret them,

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or interpret them in different ways, or incorrect ways, and come back and tell stories.

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We're getting into the same sort of phenomena here.

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So you would not see a beam going across the picture.

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James Oberg has devoted the last 18 years to aerospace research.

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Although Oberg insists he is an independent analyst, some ufologists believe he's part of a secret government conspiracy to debunk all UFOs.

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It's a bit too trite and I've been insulting to the intelligence of the average American to say,

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you know, it's something to do with space folklore or space debris.

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Let's not forget that these people are not some kind of UFO organization speaking for 10,000 scientists out there.

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These are a couple of very far out people who are not even accepted in the UFO movement.

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Is this merely ice from the space shuttle?

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Secret weapons testing the military won't disclose.

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Or is this finally proof that we're not alone in the universe?

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It's only a matter of time, but I would wager by 1995.

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This will be common knowledge and the fact that extraterrestrials are here will be accepted by everybody.

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For a further perspective on the space shuttle footage, we've asked University of Nebraska at Omaha Physicist, Dr. Jack Casher, to join us.

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Dr. Casher, thanks for coming in. Appreciate your time.

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What evidence can you cite, sir, that those lights that we saw on the tape aren't conventional satellites?

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Well, I think the strongest evidence for me is I sat down and I put a transparency in front of the television set

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and I tracked eight of those objects both before and after the flash.

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And the main one did cut up sharply to the right, apparently in response, if you would believe, the ice theory

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of an attitude to just to rock it down here that would push it up with its exhaust.

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Two of the eight objects did that.

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Two went up and to the left, which is the wrong direction.

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And I've looked at that 50 or 100 times. I just can't reconcile that in my own mind.

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Have you been ostracized at all by the scientific community for holding these particular beliefs?

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Not really. You'd be surprised if the physicists that have come up after they've heard me speak about UFOs

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and say they're really surprised that there is evidence that is at least plausible that these things are real.

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You sort of went out on a limb, Dr. Kasher. You said that by 1995 these kinds of sightings would be commonplace.

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Why 1995? Do you know something the rest of us don't?

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Well, I do have some contacts that have given me some information and I think I based some of it on that.

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But I think that there is a groundswell of interest in UFOs.

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People are being more open about the sightings that they have had.

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And that just builds up and eventually what are you going to do when your friends tell you they have actually seen flying saucers hovering above their houses?

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After that happens to you a number of times, you just have to start believing some of it.

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Dr. Kasher, have you seen a UFO yourself or anything that would lead you to personally believe that they're out there?

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Well, I haven't seen anything as spectacular as a flying saucer, but I have seen lights in the sky that behave in a strange way

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that you couldn't explain in terms of normal airplanes.

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And I do teach astronomy and I know where the constellations are and what meteors are, so I can differentiate between those things.

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And the object that I saw were not airplanes and I'm not really sure what they were.

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Dr. Jack Kasher, thank you very much. And we will be back with more sightings in just a moment.

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Coming up next, what are these bizarre glowing balls of light? Some say natural phenomenon, some say alien spacecraft.

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We investigate the mystery of the Marfa lights.

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Astronomers know what causes the Aurora Borealis, those spectacular multi-colored curtains of light known as the Northern Lights.

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But there is also another lesser known light phenomenon occurring in the night skies all over the world.

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And it has continued to defy explanation for almost two centuries.

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It started out very slowly, but very brightly. There was a single bright yellow light. It was brilliant.

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Closer it got, it changed to a kind of a silvery green orb.

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It seems to dance or move in a rhythmic play.

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And then they go up into the sky and when they're up there, well they just have a big party up there.

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They weren't hostile, they were very very friendly it seemed.

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They didn't chase us, they didn't descend on us and they were soft in color.

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Yellows, soft greens, blues. I don't think there's any question about the lights are there.

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Marfa, Texas is a small town southwest of El Paso.

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For the past 150 years, residents, visitors and scientists have all looked into the light sky and seen dazzling multi-colored lights, dubbed the Marfa Lights.

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Reported sightings date from Apache accounts in the early 1800s to the Wall Street Journal in 1984.

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I think they're Satanist people telling the God's truth.

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They're ghost lights and it's ghosts.

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It was just eerie to me, nobody else was afraid but I was afraid.

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Lifetime resident, Bern Campbell, took these photographs of the lights using time-lapse photography.

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I saw this light coming across the area moving toward the power line and I assumed that it was following the power line toward me and I stood transfixed.

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As a matter of fact, I was scared, very badly frightened.

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I don't know what they are, I don't claim to know.

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I'm not sure I even want to know but I know that they do exist.

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In America there are at least 100 zones that are regularly haunted by these curious light phenomena.

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One of the most famous places is Marfa.

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Paul Devereux is a London-based Earth Sciences researcher who believes geology holds the answer to the Marfa Lights.

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These lights, nobody knows what they are, they're rather exotic phenomena.

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They're not UFOs, they're not flying saucers, they're somehow produced by the Earth itself.

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Right now, an international team of scientists is in Marfa seeking an explanation to the light phenomenon.

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The team is headed by one of the top physicists in the world, Yoshihiko Otsuki.

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This is a research work on the fireball, so-called Marfa Light.

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We believe this is a kind of natural phenomena.

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A natural phenomenon means this is some kind of atmospheric electricity.

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The team has established a base camp just north of the official viewing site open to the public.

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State-of-the-art atmospheric technology has been flown in and set up.

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All manner of recording devices are also in place.

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Since the team does not know the true source of the Marfa Lights, they also acknowledge the spiritual.

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A Buddhist priest performs a ritual he believes will summon the lights.

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Early in the investigation, the team was frustrated. The lights did not appear.

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We watched and watched, but nothing we obtained, nothing filming, nothing eye witness observation.

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So we were very disappointed.

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Mission specialist Ed Hendricks tried out new detection devices while the team waited.

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Hendricks obsession with the Marfa Lights began on February 2, 1991, when he had his first sighting.

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I was flabbergasted. I don't think I've ever been the same since.

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I've been fascinated and almost obsessed by it, trying to figure out what could possibly do something like that.

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Hendricks specializes in the science of Sphyrix, the study of the sounds of the atmosphere.

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He has previously recorded strange sounds which accompany the appearance of the Marfa Lights.

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They're long, kind of descending pitch signals that sound something like...

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On September 1, 1992, as Hendricks set up his equipment, the team's first light suddenly appeared on the horizon.

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The Marfa Lights' first light suddenly appeared on the horizon.

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There it is. It's going again. It's flickering. Wow. It's got different colors.

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It's got red and yellow. And it's flashing. It's flashing very rapidly.

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Looks almost like a firefly.

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It's very bright now. It's getting brighter and it looks a little bit red.

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It's dividing in two. The two pieces are moving apart.

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There they go and they're getting real close.

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And they've crossed again and they're just continuing this.

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They're going back and forth, swinging back and forth.

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This is what I think people mean when they say that the lights are doing a dance.

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I think they're going. I think that's all.

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What are these dancing, multi-colored lights?

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While this investigative team searches for an answer, other scientists say the lights are nothing more

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than the headlights of cars traveling on nearby Route 67.

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I don't believe there are any facts to support the myths.

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We cannot say that there's no manifestation of the devil, our flying saucers, or Indian ghosts.

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But there are no facts to represent that.

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There are some facts to indicate very strongly that what most people see are car lights on Highway 67.

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There are people who are skeptical about the Marfa lights and who believe that what everybody sees are car headlights.

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And indeed, many people do see car headlights and assume that they're Marfa lights and believe that.

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But even the most serious skeptic, the people who attribute all of the phenomenon to car headlights,

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could not possibly have seen what we saw and conclude that they were looking at car headlights

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because cars could not be made to do what we saw those lights do.

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And with the sightings dating back to the early 1800s, car headlights must be ruled out in those cases.

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Right now, I don't know what they are and I'm continuing to work on that.

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I have some more years left and all that time I'm going to continue to look at it until I figure it out.

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We have no facts that illustrate that it's anything beyond the natural.

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For the people who live in Marfa, the parade of scientists and specialists who work here are just part of life.

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And so too are the Marfa lights that they have witnessed their whole lives and explained in their own way.

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It's just there and it's been there all these many years.

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And with all these people trying to find what it is, I don't think they will and I hope they don't.

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It would be nice just to remain the Marfa Mastral Eye.

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The problem with understanding the Marfa lights is not that they can't be explained, but that there are so many explanations.

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Theories range from UFOs to headlights to weather anomalies like ball lightning.

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Some even suggest that the lights are jackrabbits who brushed up against phosphorus and vegetation.

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But so far, all these theories remain unproven.

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Coming up next, in a special sightings update from Wisconsin, this man captured a bizarre image with his Polaroid camera that many believe is a ghostly apparition.

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According to the most recent roper poll on the paranormal, 18.5 million Americans report having seen a ghost.

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One of those people contacted us with a remarkable photograph that he took near his home in Hayward, Wisconsin.

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Northern Wisconsin is a freshwater fishing paradise and some say a haven for ghostly apparitions.

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Skeptics dismiss these stories as folklore designed to lure tourists, but eyewitness accounts are plentiful and now potential hard evidence has surfaced, an intriguing photograph.

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I looked up and here I see this white figure above the tree line and it's slowly descending towards the trees.

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Al Denninger has been a fishing guide through the waters of the Chippewa Flowage for 17 years.

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He knows these waters like the back of his hand, but last October he saw something he couldn't explain.

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You can see it actually passed through the trees and slowly descend right above the shoreline and the object was 10, 12 feet tall.

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They took one picture with the Polaroid.

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Slowly this object moved down the shoreline that way towards the west.

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It moved about 50 yards, stayed there maybe 10, 15 seconds and slowly ascended right straight up into the sky and was gone.

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Denninger claims he photographed this apparition of a human form floating above an area locals call Ghost Island.

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Later he had his photograph enlarged for better analysis.

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I had the original looked at by a photo expert.

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He says first of all you can't dupe up a Polaroid.

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He says well I can't tell you what it is, but whatever it is it's really there.

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When word of Denninger's photo got out more eyewitnesses came forward claiming they'd also seen the apparition.

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Two young men were fishing there at midnight and one of them saw a white robed figure about 8 feet from the ground sort of floating among the graves.

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Elle sent them the picture and they called up and said that is what we saw.

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Stories of discontented spirits haunting Ghost Island have existed since Wisconsin's Chippewa River was dammed in the 1920s

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causing floodwaters to engulf the island's historic cemetery.

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Most of the graves were moved to higher ground but locals worry about the plots that were left behind.

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Could the apparitions be restless souls searching for their displaced loved ones?

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I've always had an open mind and I've always figured that you're a little naive to think you're probably the only one in this universe

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but whatever I saw it definitely wasn't from anything I've ever seen before.

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If you photographed or videotaped what you believed to be a ghost or if you had an encounter with a paranormal

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our sightings investigative team wants to know.

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To report your sighting call 1900 740 site that's 1900 740 S-I-T-E.

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Each call 75 cents a minute, average call lasts 2 minutes and you must be 18 years or older.

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Again to report your paranormal experiences call the sightings hotline at 1900 740 7483.

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On the next sightings a satanic deliverance gets out of control.

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He begins to punch, to kick, to bite.

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And leaves this woman maimed and bloody.

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Was it an overzealous exorcist or the demon himself?

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On the next sightings.

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Join us next time for new investigations into the unexplained.

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For Sightings I'm Tim White. Good night.

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Coming up next, Fox's Friday Night Search Party continues with an all new episode of the only crime series where you the viewer uncover the clues.

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Likely suspects.

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