One of the most important UFO sightings, especially for those of us here in Arizona, was the Phoenix Lights incident in 1997. I had just moved to Arizona at the time, and the sheer magnitude of this event still resonates today. This CGI animation does an incredible job of recreating the exact chronology of the event - from the first sightings to the massive, boomerang-shaped craft that flew silently over the valley. The video also captures the reaction from Arizona's then-governor, who initially dismissed the event, only to later admit that he had seen something he couldn't explain. It perfectly shows how the military launched flares in an attempt to explain the sightings away and avoid panic, despite eyewitnesses reporting something far more extraordinary. A cool touch in the animation is the Snake Plissken plane ID, a nod to Kurt Russell, who was flying a small plane into Arizona that evening and saw and reported the UFO himself. It's a nice piece of history embedded into the...
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