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On the evening of August 21st, 2004, residents of the small village of Tinley Park, Illinois

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casually gaze up to the skies and soon realize they're not alone.

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A mass sighting of three strange red lights grips this tiny suburb on the outskirts of

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Chicago.

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These lights were observed by thousands of people.

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I saw three red lights.

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This was definitely not an airplane.

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It was unlike anything I'd seen before or after.

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The sighting spiral out from Tinley Park to towns all across the Chicago Southland.

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Residents are left without an explanation.

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And these lights may be part of a worldwide visitation.

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Now for the first time, witnesses are coming forward.

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With never-before-seen footage of the Tinley Park lights, this is case number nine.

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79001 Invasion, Illinois.

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Right outside our front window, we were able to see it.

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Three red lights in the sky.

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August 21st, 2004, Tinley Park, Illinois.

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In this quiet suburb just 30 miles south of Chicago, many are taking advantage of what

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they think will be a normal summer night.

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They're gathered at block parties, at barbecues, and at a local concert by rocker Ozzy Osbourne.

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The mood is festive and the skies are clear.

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But not for long.

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I got it on tape!

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I got it!

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The first of over 50 reports begin pouring into local authorities just after 7pm.

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There's something strange in the skies above Tinley Park.

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Three bright red-orange lights that seem at times to be flying in a triangular formation

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and sometimes in a straight line.

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Actual video from that night shows the lights moving silently and slowly from west to east

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over the Tinley Park area, often visible for as long as 30 minutes.

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By 9pm, reports of the strange lights spread like wildfire over the Chicago suburbs.

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Tinley Park, Lake in the Hills, Oak Forest, Orland Park, Moquina, Madison, Frankfurt.

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I saw three red lights in the sky.

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They were kind of hovering in changing formations from a triangle to like a three in a row,

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like dot dot dot.

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The next thing just floated across the sky from southwest to northeast.

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Here we are at the first Midwest Banked Amphitheater, formerly known as the Tweeter Center, the site

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of August 21st 2004 of Oz Fest.

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On that night, people leaving the amphitheater after the concert was over got caught in a

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traffic jam and in the traffic jam they're looking up and they see dazzling light formations

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in the sky.

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Now we know what some people might say.

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I mean, it was an Oz Fest concert.

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Of course people are going to see lights in the sky.

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The Tinley Park case should have the makings for a really interesting case.

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There's a lot of evidence.

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We've got a lot of witness testimony spread over a wide geographic area and the case is

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really fresh.

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It's current.

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And the people in Tinley Park were alone.

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This isn't just a regional mass sighting.

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The team believes this may be a worldwide event.

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A similar set of lights is captured on tape two days prior in British Columbia, Canada,

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then in Minnesota.

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The day after the Tinley Park sightings, August 22nd, the lights appear in Houston, Texas

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and this actual video appears to show objects hovering over Melbourne, Australia the very

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next day.

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Triangle-shaped encounters are on the rise, joining the more traditional cigar and saucer

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shaped reports.

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Sightings of strange triangle shaped craft skyrocketed in the early 1980s.

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The military's unveiling of both the F-117 stealth fighter and the B-2 stealth bomber

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in November 1988 helped explain a number of these accounts.

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Still, many mysteries remain.

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The mysterious Belgium UFO of 1990 seen here and the Phoenix Lights Triangle of 1994 have

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become landmark cases.

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Now it's up to the team to find out if the Tinley Park Triangle is part of this greater

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phenomenon.

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October 31st, 2004, Halloween.

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The Triangle returns to the skies over Tinley Park.

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The red lights are back.

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They're over about the 80th Avenue train station.

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And again, are seen and taped by large groups of people.

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The dead speed up as close as you can get on this thing.

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The debunkers tell us these are flares.

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These are flares attached to balloons that are hovering in the air.

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Could these lights, witnessed by hundreds and maybe thousands, be simply a hoax or something

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else entirely?

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The Tinley Park investigation is underway, as several angles are explored.

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Pat Uskert is collecting video evidence from the eyewitnesses and attempting to pinpoint

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the precise locations of each sighting.

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At this point, we really need to see a lot more information.

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I need to see more video.

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I need to talk to more people.

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We've got a lot of work ahead of us.

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Former NASA analyst Dr. Ted Ackworth will use Pat's data and the videos to scientifically

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calculate the size and speed of this object and, with this information, attempt to identify

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it.

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Are these three points of light all fixed together as part of one rigid object?

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And if so, how big is this thing?

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And Bill Burns tests an alleged hoax to see whether the lights are actually flares attached

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to balloons.

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We may not know what these lights were, but by the end of this investigation, we're sure

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going to find out what these lights were not.

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We're meeting Sam Moranto, director of Illinois Mufon.

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He's our main contact here on the ground in Tinley Park.

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Sam was the point man.

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In cop shop terms, he's the squeal man for this case.

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He takes the first call.

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When everyone saw the lights, they contacted him.

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He's actually been in touch with all the people who have the footage, the eyewitnesses, people

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who say they saw this thing in the sky, whatever it was.

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I think I probably interviewed well in excess of a hundred people.

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According to Sam, the Tinley Park events are among the best documented UFO sightings ever.

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Many people have seen UFOs.

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Rarely do they report them.

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They rarely even get so much as a picture out of most UFO cases.

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Approximately 25 to 30 videos exist, shot simultaneously from different parts of Tinley

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Park and the surrounding suburbs.

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There are still many more people to see and talk to, more footage to recover, and I think

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this case is evolving.

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This thing was seen by thousands of people.

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It did make newspapers nationally in Illinois and even around the world.

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So Pat goes right to the source, a correspondent from the local paper, The South Town Star.

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I'm meeting with Jason Freeman.

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As a journalist, he's objective.

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He doesn't really have anything to gain from this.

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He's just interested in getting at the truth very much like we are.

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I was amazed.

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But you can never take the reporter out of yourself.

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So I immediately started to kind of get the scene.

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Those people who hadn't seen it already had their minds made up that it was what the media

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said it was, road flares or all these other explanations.

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Whereas I think the people I saw and myself included, a little more open minded.

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Jason writes a column about his own personal experience.

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I got out of my car and tried as hard as I could to get a better view of the anomalies.

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What exactly was it that I and hundreds of other Timley Park presidents saw that night?

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I'm not sure.

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In speaking with a journalist, it's important to keep in mind that he's been trained to

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just record events as they occur, as unbiased as possible.

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To my knowledge, no one ever officially explained what they were, which leads me to scratch

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my hand even more.

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The police department adamantly said that these were not weather balloons or flares.

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In fact, every other agency said the same thing.

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The FAA said this was something that they don't know what it was because it didn't

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register on their radar.

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Within 35 miles of Timley Park are Chicago O'Hare and Midway Airports.

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How could radar operators at two of the nation's busiest airports not pick up an object seen

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by so many witnesses?

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The FAA has no answer, which causes the team to rule out commercial or private planes.

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Perhaps the best evidence may lie in the video.

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This is a unique scenario because we have so much very good footage.

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Sam has at least 15 distinct pieces of videotape that capture the bizarre phenomena.

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This was the August 21, 2004 sighting, mass sighting.

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This segment of footage is from Hope Forest.

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I don't know what that is.

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I wonder how many more there are going to be, but you know what, that was really cool

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when it was the three of them.

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I don't know.

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Do you really think we should call and report this?

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Three miles to the southwest in Timley Park proper, another witness, TJ Javkan, shoots

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this footage of the lights.

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Are you recording this?

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Yeah, I am.

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While he's shooting footage further southwest, they're shooting footage in the northeast,

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so they're actually shooting the same phenomena simultaneously.

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This is great.

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The same triangulation on one phenomena that both cameras took up.

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From every angle, in every neighborhood, eyewitness video captures the lights in the same triangular

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formation.

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The various lights almost stayed rigid with respect to each other as they moved through

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the sky.

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Do flares do the same thing?

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I think it would be premature to jump into this and say we're looking at some sort of

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huge extraterrestrial phenomenon or giant craft over at Timley Park.

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What we have is three points of light in the sky, and I'd like to keep it right there until

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I get more information.

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Skeptics claim there is an ordinary explanation for the Timley Park sightings, but the multiple

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witnesses don't agree.

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Herebefore seen footage from that night may finally provide the answer.

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I knew it wasn't a plane or aircraft of any kind that I've ever seen.

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There was no noise, so we were kind of amazed and just started to think what it could be,

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and I really have no answer for that.

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The team is in Timley Park, Illinois, investigating multiple appearances of an alleged triangle-shaped

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UFO.

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Hundreds, if not thousands of people, from lawyers and doctors to concertgoers, claim

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to have seen three strange reddish lights in the sky on two separate nights in 2004.

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One witness, two witnesses, that's not enough.

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We need to get as many witnesses as possible, look at as much evidence as possible, analyze

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as many videos as possible, and from there put a picture together.

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It heads out to meet with TJ Japkhan, an eyewitness who was able to capture the alleged UFO on

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video.

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While Bill meets with Ted to find out what else might be flying over Timley Park.

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One question I always have when we have sightings of lights overhead at night is what's going

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on with commercial airliners and maybe even military aircraft operations.

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If we can rule out those kinds of aircraft, that leaves a lot of evidence on the table

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that might lead to something anomalous.

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Situated within 30 miles of both Chicago O'Hare and Midway Airports, the skies above

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Timley Park are some of the most congested airspace in the United States.

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The air is filled with commercial and private aircraft that could be mistaken for something

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extraterrestrial.

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According to the team, the strange object might also be a misidentified military craft.

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But they feel this explanation is unlikely.

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There is a military operation area way to the north here.

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It's about roughly 100 miles away.

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And there's another one way to the southeast also on the order of 100 miles.

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So I wouldn't say, A, there's no military operation area and B, you're not going to

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get the military operating right in the middle of this massive international commercial airspace

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without causing a lot of trouble.

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Still, Bill tries to get some kind of official statement from the military on the Timley

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Park phenomenon.

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He contacts the group commander, a senior military official at nearby Scott Air Force

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Base.

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Yes, hi, I'm Bill Burns from UFO Hunters and UFO Magazine.

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I'm calling in reference to the August 21st, 2004 lights over Timley Park.

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I'm going to find out what traffic the military had that night.

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You have no information about that.

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I understand.

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I understand.

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According to the official Air Force response received by UFO Hunters, quote, we do not

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have any documentation on this at all.

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Due to the high turnover of military personnel that have left since 2004, we don't have anyone

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that could possibly speak on this.

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Now we've got to get to the witness locations.

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We have to interview the witnesses.

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The more videos we have and the more witness statements we can get, the more scientific

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data we can get over to TED to analyze on the workbench to see what we really have in

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front of us.

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I saw three red lights that were slowly hanging in the sky.

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It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen.

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I've never seen anything like it before.

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I've never seen anything like those lights.

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10.45 p.m. August 21st, 2004.

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TJ Japkhan and Dave Wagner are at a block party with approximately 70 friends and neighbors.

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They have no idea that their party is about to have some uninvited guests.

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Come on camera, get me some.

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My son had seen three lights come off right above the trees.

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Are you zoomed in all the way?

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Yeah, Jake, look at that.

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Can we peek?

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Okay, look at you guys.

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It's a UFO.

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Someone's saying UFO and I did turn around finally and I saw them like, what in the world are

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these things?

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We've just never seen anything like that before.

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Everybody was just staring at it.

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It just floated across the sky.

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It's three red lights and like a triangle.

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TJ gets his video camera and manages to capture the object on tape for an incredible 18 minutes.

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It's definitely not a helicopter.

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It's going too slow for helicopters too.

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It's going right over us.

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As they watch, they believe the object is maneuvering in ways beyond the capacity of

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conventional aircraft.

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It took about 15 or 20 minutes to move from here to over there.

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Then it stayed stationary for a little while and then it crawled again.

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So it actually stopped at one point?

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It stopped, yeah.

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So it moved across the sky, stopped, and then it continued moving.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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The slow pace and stationary hovering of the object is highly inconsistent with typical

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aircraft flight behavior and these locals know it.

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When a police officer stops by the block party, he is bombarded with questions about the object.

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We had stopped them and we asked him what was going on and he goes right now, he goes,

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I can't talk.

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He has to get back to the station because the station, Tinley Park Police Station, was

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being inundated with phone calls.

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Yeah.

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So everybody was calling the cops.

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Everyone was calling the police.

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UFO hunters contacted the Tinley Park Police Station for a statement.

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The officer in charge had no comment on the case, but their own incident dispatch report

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shows they did receive calls of red lights in the sky that night.

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After half an hour, the object slowly disappears into the night.

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Whoa, where'd it go?

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Where'd it go?

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Gone.

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But around 11.30 p.m., TJ and Dave have another sighting, a single red point of light that

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follows the same path as the object seen earlier.

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Oh, come on.

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Kurt, they're back.

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The UFOs are back.

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This time, Dave is ready.

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He has a high-powered telescope in hand.

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I didn't see any sides or anything, but from the naked eye, it looked like one dot in the

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sky, but through the telescope, it looked oval-shaped with about 10 or 12 red lights around it.

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Pat collects TJ's video and other data for Ted to analyze.

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He uses a GPS locator to plot the precise location of the sighting.

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Next, a clinometer helps establish how far off the horizon the alleged UFO appeared to be.

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Finally, compass readings pinpoint the trajectory of the UFO across the sky.

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Definitely, the footage that TJ just showed me is very similar to the footage I saw earlier with Sam.

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These are definitely videos of the same event, the same lights over Tinley Park, whatever they were.

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What was this object?

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What was its size?

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And how far away was it from the witnesses?

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Or was it an object at all?

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In order to complete the triangulation, Ted will need data from one final location.

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With this information, he can also start estimating the size and speed of what these people were seeing,

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and perhaps even identify it.

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That same night, Bob Peterson is with his children in his backyard when he sees the same triangle-shaped object.

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Austin, go ask Mom for the telephone. I want to call somebody.

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What made you take notice of these lights?

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I just happened to look up and there were three red lights in the sky.

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It was definitely an odd thing to see.

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We are kind of in a play pattern here from Midway Airport.

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There's a lot of activity as far as planes are concerned.

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So at first I did think there were helicopters, but as they got closer, I mean they were dead silent.

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There was just no noise coming from them.

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So at that point, it wasn't a helicopter.

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How about airplanes?

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No, it's way too slow.

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Despite his sighting, Bob is not convinced that he has seen anything extraordinary.

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My opinion is there are some type of hoax put on. I don't know what it would be.

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Bill Dooley, Bob's friend and neighbor, also witnesses the lights, but his reaction is very different.

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We actually had a high-powered telescope back here at the time and one of our friends got right on it.

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But he said it looked just like we're seeing it with our naked eye.

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I thought it was something, you know, some kind of flare or something like that.

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We thought about that, that you would see some kind of smoke and we didn't.

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Again, Pat takes the crucial location data for both Bob and Bill's sightings.

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With three distinct locations, his data compilation is complete and ready to send to Ted.

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But before Ted comes to any kind of conclusion, the team has a critical experiment to perform.

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One that will put them directly into the eye of the storm.

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If it was a hoax, they did a really good job. Whoever created the hoax, that's all I could say.

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Skeptics ender bunkers claim that the three bright red lights seen by hundreds of witnesses in the skies above Tinley Park, Illinois,

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are nothing more than flares attached to weather balloons.

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But those who actually saw the lights with their own eyes hold a different opinion.

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My son and I were on the phone together watching the UFO.

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Planes, flights, normally flash, but these lights didn't flash.

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It was exciting and it was disturbing.

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Dr. Ted Ackworth has worked for NASA's Flying Imaging Aircraft program.

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He is joined by Terrence Masson, an image processing expert from Northeastern University.

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They begin by analyzing footage shot by TJ Jabgon on August 21, 2004.

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Ted feels it has the highest image quality of the nearly 30 pieces of video UFO hunters have collected.

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My first thought was it was going to be necessary to stabilize because these are shot by normal people background,

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hand held, so we've got this kind of swimming motion.

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Sure. That's pretty typical.

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Once we've done that, I was able to then pick one of the three lights and translationly pin that so that all the related emotion is basically locked around that point.

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Having stabilized one point of the three, Ted and Terrence are able to see how the other two points move around it.

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Are they free-floating or locked in place?

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To me, and the numbers bear it out, that it does look like the other two trailing points are locked to that third nodal point in rotating.

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So either they're fixed to the same physical structure, you know, a triangular craft, or if it's man-made, they have to be some kind of eye-beam, some kind of physical connection.

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If the lights are all connected, why do they sometimes appear as a triangle and other times appear as a straight line?

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Is the object shape-shifting?

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Ted and Terrence's analysis shows that's not the case.

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The most likely answer is, as the attached lights move in the sky, the only thing that shifts is the viewer's perspective.

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To my eye, it appeared that those three lights seem to be locked together geometrically, and his analysis agreed with that.

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We now quantitatively know that those three points of light are locked in space together.

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Ted and Terrence still cannot determine whether there is a solid triangular craft with a light on each point, or three individual lights that are somehow able to rotate together.

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One segment of TJ's footage from October 31, 2004 shows a conventional aircraft, a helicopter, flying near the triangle shape.

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The team contacted all local airports, the FAA, Pilots of America, and numerous other aviation organizations in hopes of finding the pilot.

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One pilot responded, saying he had been in the air and saw something strange that night.

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When asked for an interview, he refused, claiming he feared for his job.

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I'm hoping we can get a sense of the overall size. Is this thing 10 feet across or a quarter mile across?

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We could take the height of that helicopter image in this frame and compare that to the height of the lights and calculate the distance between those two lights.

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Because spatially, just in the imagery itself, it's probably about 30 times the linear width of this helicopter.

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That's getting up to 1,000 feet.

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1,000 feet as opposed to the width of the helicopter.

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So based on this method, I think we're in the ballpark of 1,000 plus feet in separation between these three lights.

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With their estimate of 1,000 feet between the points of light, Ted and Terrence plug in the location data that Pat has gathered from the eyewitnesses.

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The GPS locator pinpoints each sighting on the map.

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The clinometer reading reveals the angle of elevation or how high off the horizon the lights appear to be.

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Compass readings indicate in which direction the alleged UFO is traveling.

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Without this additional information, no true estimate of the size of the object can be made.

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Based on the clinometer and compass readings, the witnesses all appear to have seen the same object to the west and low to the horizon between 5 and 10 degrees.

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And we know from the footage here from TJ, which is taken from here looking in that direction at about roughly a 10 degree elevation, that our object is approximately that distance away from TJ.

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And we figured that was about 2 and a half miles.

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If the unknown object is 2 and a half miles away at an average of 7 degrees off the horizon and with 1,000 feet between each point of light, then they can estimate its total size.

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I think 1,500 is a pretty good estimate, plus or minus a couple of feet.

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It's definitely not the distance from wingtip to wingtip of anything that...

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Absolutely not.

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And I don't know any structure that you could fly that could hold lights 1,500 feet apart.

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To the best of their knowledge, the alleged UFO over Tinley Park is one object several thousand feet in the air and about 1,500 feet from end to end.

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To put that into reference to something we might know, think of a 747 or the newer A380 aircraft.

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Those are about 200, 250 feet in wingspan.

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So we would have to stack up about six of these to get the span that we're seeing from our evidence in this case.

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And that's just beyond that.

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That's like 6X the largest aircraft that we have.

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Based on all of this evidence, the video, the spatial recreation, the estimation of motion, the image processing.

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I don't know what it is. There's definitely something out there of this 1,500 feet span, but I have no idea what it might be.

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This could be an elaborate hoax.

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People say that they were red flares in the sky.

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I don't think that it was some type of a spacecraft.

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There just wasn't any evidence to me that it was anything other than three lights that were not connected.

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Although there's never been an official explanation for the lights over Tinley Park, there are some people who believe that these were nothing more than flares tied to balloons.

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And it's an interesting theory, one that we have to test.

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So that's what we're doing here today.

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We're actually going to set some balloons with flares aloft and see if they look anything like the Tinley Park footage from 2004.

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Cleared by local authorities, the test will allow the team to compare the color and intensity of the flares, as well as the way the balloons and flares move in the night sky with the original footage of the lights over Tinley Park.

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But Ted's analysis proved the lights were connected by something solid, so if this was a hoax, it was rather elaborate.

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We suspect that there's a frame between the lights, an object between the lights that you can't see in the darkness.

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So what we're doing to test this out is we're building triangles out of the PVC pipe and attaching flares to the end of those corners.

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So in effect, we're making our own flying triangles out of flares and balloons. Let's see what they look like compared to the footage we have.

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As the team unloads their equipment, the weather begins to take a turn for the worse. Much worse.

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Bill and Pat manage to get the materials for the experiment inside, but the danger is far from over.

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They don't call this tornado alley by accident.

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I grew up in California. We just don't have this. I've seen lightning before. I've heard a little bit of thunder.

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What can I say? Welcome to Illinois.

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As you can hear, we've got a lot of bad weather coming in.

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The team is in rural Illinois, in a controlled environment supervised by local authorities.

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In spite of the weather, the team soldiers on, building the PVC frame.

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Three weather balloons, five feet in diameter, are filled with helium gas and attached to the frame.

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But it soon becomes apparent that the frame is too heavy for the balloons to lift.

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The larger we got, the heavier the frame got, and the more impossible it was for the balloons to lift this thing.

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So it just seems like if they're describing a giant triangle, there's just no way these balloons could lift this thing.

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It would take possibly hundreds or even thousands of balloons to lift a structure that large.

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They know from Ted's analysis the object is massive, and the lights are connected.

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It's unclear how such a hoax could be possible.

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Still, the team works to get the balloons airborne and in formation in order to compare the flares to the strange lights on the videos.

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I think the lightning has passed. We may have a window to launch.

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Sam Moranto and several eyewitnesses from 2004.

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Bill Dooley and his son Nick and Bob Peterson and his son Tyler arrive for the test.

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Since they saw the lights with the naked eye originally, they're the best witnesses to tell us, hey, this looks like the lights we saw. This didn't look like the lights we saw.

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For test purposes, they've also brought the same cameras they filmed the Tinley Park lights with in August of 2004.

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So what we want to do is maybe use their cameras to take footage of the balloons that we launch and compare them to their footage from 2004. Let's see how it matches up.

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The three balloons are attached on a line at 15-foot intervals. A flare is then suspended from each balloon.

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Gentlemen, wire flares.

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It's not even a launch.

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One two.

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Go ahead, Jake.

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Music

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While Sam and the team have only seen the video evidence of the Tinley Park lights, Bob, Bill and their sons are eyewitnesses.

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They know firsthand what the object looked like in 2004, the quality of the colors, the way it held its triangular form and how it moved across the night sky.

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Now what we saw in the summer of 2004 was much steadier flow of light, not jerking around like they did. The color was bright red like you'd see a light on top of a cell tower.

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This was more orange, more pink, so no, nothing like it.

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Bob Peterson's initial impression is that the 2004 lights are a hoax, but this demonstration has given him a new perspective.

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Based on what I saw tonight, no, I don't think it was a flare. There was just too much that was different about it.

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He thought they were flares, but now he's looking at flares and he says they did not behave the way the lights behave when he first saw them on August 21st and October 31st.

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A final meeting with Sam Moranto reveals that the night of the original sighting, August 21st, 2004, may be part of a worldwide UFO flap, and Tinley Park's history of UFO sightings didn't begin in 2004.

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As you may have already found out and have some indication, this area has been a hotbed for activity. Project Blue Book, the Air Force, actual investigation into UFO phenomena, actually had one of their cases here in Tinley Park.

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What was the case?

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The case was two young men seeing an unusual object. They reported it and it was investigated and still remains unknown. And that was in the early 60s.

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Was there any other activity around the case that we're working with now?

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I tell you one thing, Pat, we had August a hot month.

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Objects very similar to what was seen out here was seen on the 18th in Canada. On the 19th we had that object over Minneapolis, St. Paul hovering there for a period of almost nine hours.

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Then here we go, the 21st in Tinley Park. After that, Houston, Texas. A few hours later into the 23rd, what do we have in Melbourne, Australia? Same thing again.

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Is it possible that these were all sightings of the same object?

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What was the date of the Australia sighting?

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The Australia sighting was on the 23rd, but remember their date line is ahead of us by 16 hours.

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What are the chances of these lights popping up here in Australia a couple days later?

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Sam Moranto has uncovered video from Australia that appears to show two of the Tinley Park type objects seen here for the first time.

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Oh no, my battery's running out.

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On September 30th, 2005, the same configuration of lights returns to Tinley Park and again is widely seen and taped by the residents.

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The object appears to be the same one seen in 2004 and yet another sighting occurs barely a month later on October 31st, Halloween, 2005.

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With all of the evidence gathered for this case, the team waits for Ted to weigh in on the experiment.

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How will the new footage stand up to the original 2004 video of the mysterious lights over Tinley Park?

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When I saw those three lights in the footage, nothing came to mind instantly that, hey, oh, that's a commercial airliner, that's a helicopter.

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I'm very intrigued. There's something unusual there and I hope to get to the bottom of it.

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Now, with footage in hand, Ted and Terrence are preparing to scrutinize several aspects of Bill and Pat's experiment.

439
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Even with an absolutely perfectly still, calm atmosphere, you're still going to get this kind of unrelated, random motion to these three points.

440
00:39:03,586 --> 00:39:08,589
Now, of course, in this case, there was actually some kind of wind and they're just all over the place.

441
00:39:08,589 --> 00:39:17,594
As Bill and Pat noted in the field, their balloons behaved erratically in the wind in stark contrast to the 2004 footage.

442
00:39:19,595 --> 00:39:27,600
According to National Weather Service data, on the night of the experiment, winds are clocked at 12 miles per hour.

443
00:39:28,601 --> 00:39:33,604
In 2004, the winds are more than twice as strong at 30 miles per hour.

444
00:39:34,604 --> 00:39:39,607
Yet the lights do not exhibit the same erratic behavior as the flares and balloons.

445
00:39:40,608 --> 00:39:48,613
I mean, I can imagine a tether, like a nylon filament tether, but that would only limit the distance this way, but not this way.

446
00:39:48,613 --> 00:39:54,616
And we're seeing that they're not kind of bouncing in towards one another and hitting outer limits. They're locked.

447
00:39:55,617 --> 00:40:03,621
What this seems to reinforce to the team is that the 2004 lights must be locked in place via some form of rigid structure.

448
00:40:03,621 --> 00:40:09,625
Without this, the lights should exhibit the same volatile behavior as the experiment video.

449
00:40:11,626 --> 00:40:17,630
The longer it holds that configuration, the stronger and stronger the case that they are actually locked.

450
00:40:19,631 --> 00:40:21,632
That's a pretty important conclusion.

451
00:40:21,632 --> 00:40:25,635
It's definitely not three independent floating flares.

452
00:40:27,636 --> 00:40:35,641
But does this prove that the witnesses in Tinley Park and other locations around the world photographed a flying craft?

453
00:40:38,642 --> 00:40:45,647
Ted and Terrence also want to contrast the color and light quality of the flares in comparison to the original footage.

454
00:40:46,647 --> 00:40:49,649
Unfortunately, it's very hard to tell with these consumer-grade cameras.

455
00:40:49,649 --> 00:40:54,652
The exposure settings and the sensitivity is such that you can shoot dramatically different colored lights,

456
00:40:54,652 --> 00:40:59,655
and very often you're going to see them basically bloom to almost solid white.

457
00:40:59,655 --> 00:41:04,658
The biggest difference that's pretty clear to me is the intensity differences.

458
00:41:04,658 --> 00:41:09,661
The flickering, basically, for lack of a better word, is very evident in the flares.

459
00:41:10,661 --> 00:41:16,665
Ted and Terrence also look for scintillation, any fluctuation in the quality of the light.

460
00:41:17,666 --> 00:41:23,669
A constant light source will have less scintillation than a less stable source like the flares.

461
00:41:25,670 --> 00:41:31,674
To me, it's actually an illuminated source. It's very clear, you know, some kind of light as opposed to some kind of burning combustion,

462
00:41:31,674 --> 00:41:34,676
which will have its own variability.

463
00:41:35,676 --> 00:41:38,678
But Terrence brings up another intriguing point of comparison.

464
00:41:38,678 --> 00:41:48,684
The experiment clearly shows the flares dropping residue, but in the original video from 2004, there is no evidence of any residue.

465
00:41:51,686 --> 00:41:58,690
I'd love to be able to say that our experiment and our analysis of the evidence leaves us with a very credible explanation.

466
00:41:58,690 --> 00:42:01,692
This was flares floating on balloons.

467
00:42:01,692 --> 00:42:08,696
But I can't say that. I think it's extremely unlikely that that is the explanation for what we have here.

468
00:42:10,697 --> 00:42:20,703
I could say definitively that there's no way that I can see any kind of tethered balloon light source flare or otherwise would be responsible for the footage that we have.

469
00:42:21,704 --> 00:42:29,708
Without saying it's an alien spacecraft, I can definitively say by the strictest definition it is an unidentified flying object.

470
00:42:35,712 --> 00:42:41,716
The Tinley Park case is a really interesting case to me. We've got a lot of data. We have a lot of witness testimony.

471
00:42:41,716 --> 00:42:48,720
We were able to do some extremely quantitative scientific analysis of our evidence to the best of my ability.

472
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:54,723
I can't put my finger on an explanation to say, oh, it was something terrestrial.

473
00:42:54,723 --> 00:43:00,727
All I can say is that I can't explain what it is, and yet is a highly credible corroborated case.

474
00:43:00,727 --> 00:43:06,731
So there's something there, and I can't explain what it is, and that is very intriguing to me.

475
00:43:11,734 --> 00:43:17,737
I believe we have a genuine anomalous aerial event that occurred over Tinley Park in 2004.

476
00:43:17,737 --> 00:43:21,739
Some people say it was a hoax, but we have no evidence that it was a hoax.

477
00:43:21,739 --> 00:43:28,744
Now I know in other UFO cases, pilots, both military and civilian, have come across these orbs of light, and that could be what we're dealing with here.

478
00:43:28,744 --> 00:43:31,745
So in my opinion, this case is still open.

479
00:43:32,746 --> 00:43:38,750
You have to ask yourself, are these people seeing the same object in the sky?

480
00:43:38,750 --> 00:43:43,753
Is this a worldwide UFO phenomenon, or is this a worldwide UFO hoax?

481
00:43:47,755 --> 00:43:54,759
Both scientific and subjective testimony suggests that the object was not flares attached to weather balloons.

482
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,763
Video analysis reveals something of massive size.

483
00:44:02,764 --> 00:44:10,769
Does the Tinley Park mass sighting and the mountain of visual evidence around it provide a glimpse of an actual UFO?

484
00:44:11,769 --> 00:44:16,772
Or are the answers still floating somewhere in the skies above Tinley Park?