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Mysterious Phoenix Lights a UFO Hoax
Live Science ^ | 4/23/08 | Benjamin Radford

Posted on 04/23/2008 1:23:25 PM PDT by mdittmar

On Monday evening, April 21, mysterious lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona. At just after eight, hundreds of residents called police and local news media to report four bright red lights hovering silently over the city. They changed shape after a while, moving from a triangular to rectangular configuration, then disappeared one by one.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: hoax; mystery; phoenix; ufo
The Truth is Out There,cue music;)
1 posted on 04/23/2008 1:23:25 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar
The case took a twist two days later when a local television station aired a startling confession by an anonymous hoaxer: He had created the UFO lights using road flares tied to helium balloons, launching them in one-minute increments.

That's too funny. I might just have to try that sometime.

2 posted on 04/23/2008 1:25:35 PM PDT by phrogphlyer
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To: mdittmar

George Noory is deeply saddened.


3 posted on 04/23/2008 1:27:42 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Vote Obama! And we'll be picking shrapnel out of our butts for decades!)
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To: phrogphlyer
convenient and easy to believe....
4 posted on 04/23/2008 1:29:22 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: phrogphlyer
He had created the UFO lights using road flares tied to helium balloons, launching them in one-minute increments.

Hold Muh Beer and Watch This !!!!!!
5 posted on 04/23/2008 1:29:50 PM PDT by cmsgop (I can't believe my wife downloaded "Philadelphia Freedom"on my iPod........)
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To: mdittmar

ping


6 posted on 04/23/2008 1:30:59 PM PDT by Augustinian monk (You going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?- Jose Wales)
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To: mdittmar

He, his neighbor, and the people who watched him are all acting under hypnosis as the coverup continues.


7 posted on 04/23/2008 1:36:49 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: phrogphlyer

Perhaps you should use LEDs powered by lemon “batteries” instead? Less of a fire hazard.


8 posted on 04/23/2008 1:41:27 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: mdittmar

Don’t be too quick to believe this was a hoax. A local Phx radio station was railing against the “hoaxer”:

Back when the 1st Phoenix Lights happened, some guy joked about sending up balloons with flares when stoned. So this radio station repeated the story right after the 2nd Lights.

Then *two days later*, some anonymous guy comes out and claims he did it.

If you look at the articles about the 2nd Lights, one batch was of a neighbor who said his neighbor was sending up flares. But that other neighbor denied it, and said it must have been a third neighbor some houses away.

The other articles were confessions by the anonymous “hoaxer” that he was the one doing it. And some police helicopter said it looked like flares to them, at a distance.

But the radio DJs were complaining that if anyone sees someone sending flares up on balloons, they should call the police immediately, not two days later, after half the city has been burned down.


9 posted on 04/23/2008 1:41:52 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Augustinian monk

That still doesn’t explain that sore feeling I had in my back side later that morning...Not too mention that intermittent beeping noise where ever I go.


10 posted on 04/23/2008 1:44:21 PM PDT by just cups
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Jeez, your not supposed to admit it was a hoax until after you get some tourism bucks.

We used to take a good profit making crop circles for the local B&B's.

oops, did I say that out loud?

11 posted on 04/23/2008 1:52:38 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
"Don’t be too quick to believe this was a hoax"
12 posted on 04/23/2008 2:04:53 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: mdittmar

Thread needs pictures.


13 posted on 04/23/2008 2:05:07 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: DBrow

Yet another reason to control our borders against alien invasions.


14 posted on 04/23/2008 2:06:52 PM PDT by Clioman
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To: mdittmar

With all the *sightings* lately, I was starting to think this was a *False Flag* operation.


15 posted on 04/23/2008 2:09:54 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: SoldierDad

Would you like a picture of three blips in a dark sky or pictures of fishing line, car flares, and balloons?


16 posted on 04/23/2008 2:15:55 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism is dying. Thank God!)
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To: fish hawk

Both of course. Side by side for comparison purposes.


17 posted on 04/23/2008 2:33:08 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: SoldierDad

I don’t have the pictures. I was pulling a hoax on you. LOL


18 posted on 04/23/2008 2:46:40 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism is dying. Thank God!)
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To: fish hawk

As if I didn’t already know that (eyeroll).


19 posted on 04/23/2008 2:50:37 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: The Wizard

The AF didn’t come through with claims that it was airplanes on maneuvers.


20 posted on 04/23/2008 2:55:56 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: mdittmar

Wow, it wasn’t actually space monsters? WHOODATHUNKIT?????


21 posted on 04/23/2008 3:16:00 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: phrogphlyer

http://www.abc15.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid= href=”mailto:12659@knxv.dayport.com”>12659@knxv.dayport.com


22 posted on 04/23/2008 7:24:11 PM PDT by hippyhater
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To: phrogphlyer

LOL! Ever fly a kite? Those were not helium balloons with flares tied to them...


23 posted on 04/24/2008 10:06:08 AM PDT by hippyhater
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