Mysterious Lights Over Phoenix Turn Out to be a Hoax
It’s really easy to get into national news - all you need is some fishing line, some helium balloons, road flares, and a good imagination.
That’s what the mysterious lights over Phoenix a few days ago turned out to be: nothing more than a clever hoax, a guy claims. A clever, clever hoax. In fact, it’s so clever I’m kicking myself now: why didn’t I think of that?
The UFOs were just flares tied to balloons, launched one at a time a minute apart each from the guy’s backyard. Because Phoenix was already the site of a famous 1997 UFO event called the Phoenix Lights, it probably didn’t take much for people to see something and then start filling the blanks in their own head.
I admit, if I saw them, I would probably be thinking along the lines of “no man-made flying object I know can just float like that!” (forgetting the existence of balloons) or “look how they fly together!”
Also interesting here is watching the government’s response to this. It would be embarassing if the government explained the lights right away and said “they were just weather balloons!” and it turned out to be a hoax. Eager to explain the lights much, government?
Fortunately, the U.S. military fessed up and said it didn’t know what caused the lights, which in retrospect was the best move.
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