How easy is it…

to fake a UFO encounter?  I recorded this video two years ago over the desert of Arizona.  To confess, it made my heart skip a beat at first.  I turned around and there were three glowing lights floating silently above me.  I literally thought to myself “holy s#@% I don’t believe in this crap!”.  The scale is really lost in the video, but they were huge and hovering under a high cloud cover.  When the video zooms in you see a small light on the ground for reference.  Our brain, being so inclined, makes it appear as if these lights are linked together in a massive triangle.


I walked back to the car while keeping a careful eye out for cacti and rattlesnakes (I was photographing a mojave rattler at the time), and grabbed a pair of binoculars.  With a decent magnification it was clear that these were flares.  Now only could you see a flickering light on the clouds above, but long trails of smoke rising above them.  As you followed the flares down they gradually winked out – only to reappear some distance away (another drop).  This was then followed by a series of fighter jets flying extremely low over the desert.  Basically, this is the exact same thing that caused the “lights over phoenix” flurry a few years ago.

So, I uploaded this video to Youtube and didn’t call it a UFO – just some mysterious lights.  Will it be adopted as UFO proof?  I sure hope so.  Not only that, I hope it appears on some UFO documentary in the future.  It’s not as “compelling” as other “UFO” videos, but my Canon point-and-shoot camera could only do so well.

While extra-terrestrials likely exist, there is absolutely zero compelling evidence to suggest they have visited us – and thanks to the laws of Physics, it is probable that they will never be able to visit regardless of how technologically advanced they become.

1 comment to How easy is it…

  • I find it disconcerting that, despite the overwhelming probability that life exists in innumerable places throughout the universe, there is an equally overwhelming probability that contact with any of them is impossible. It just doesn’t seem fair!