Here's a mass sighting that can't easily be refuted - the lights over Phoenix. THOUSANDS of people saw that one and it still can't be explained, even years later...
You're allowed to not believe in aliens... but then you must believe in God. If we were not put here by a higher being, but merely evolved by chance, then it's definitely happened elsewhere.
"Two separate explanations have been offered for the two events that occurred that night.
The first event -- the "vee," which appeared over northern Arizona and gradually traveled south over nearly the entire length of the state, eventually passing south of Tucson -- was the allegedly "wedge-shaped" object reported by then-Governor Symington and many others. This event started at about 8:15 over the Prescott area, and was seen south of Tucson by about 8:45.
The second event was the set of nine lights falling behind the Sierra Estrella, a mountain ridge to the southwest of Phoenix, at around 10pm. This was also observed by numerous people who may have thought they were seeing the same lights as those reported earlier.
The first event still has no provable explanation, but some evidence exists that the lights were in fact airplanes. According to an article by reporter Janet Gonzales that appeared in the Phoenix New Times, videotape of the vee shape shows the lights moving as separate entities, not as a single object; a phenomenon known as illusory contours can cause the human eye to see unconnected lines or dots as forming a single shape. Ortega also spoke with amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley, who was outside that night using a Dobsonian telescope, which yielded a view 60 times the magnification of the human eye. According to Stanley, the lights were quite clearly individual airplanes; a companion who was with him recalled asking Stanley at the time what the lights were, and he said, "Planes." [17] However, no pilots have been found who admit to flying such a formation that night, and many witnesses continue to insist that they actually saw the entire object, rather than assuming the shape of the object from the arrangement of the lights.
The second event has been more thoroughly explained. The USAF explained the second event as slow falling, long burning flares dropped by an A-10 Warthog aircraft on a training exercise over Luke Air Force Base. An investigation by Luke AFB itself also came to this conclusion and declared the case solved.[20] More recent investigations have come to the same conclusion.[21]
A video illustrating this explanation was broadcast on a special on Fox Television stations about a year after the event. A copy of the original video was used in coordination with a video shot in the daytime from the exact same location. The two videos were merged into one on a frame by frame basis, so that the landmarks (both in the foreground and background) were always aligned. This allowed analysis of the lights regarding their apparent height above the mountain, and the lights vanish in line with the outline of the mountain. Military flares[22][23] such as these can be seen from hundreds of miles with correct environmental conditions.[2] Later comparisons with known military flare drops were reported on local television stations, showing similarities between the known military flare drops and the Phoenix Lights[3] An analysis of the luminosity of LUU-2B/B illumination flares, the type which would have been in use by A-10 aircraft at the time, determined that the luminosity of such flares at a range of approximately 50-70 miles would fall well within the range of the lights viewed from Phoenix.[19]
Air National Guard pilot, Lt. Col. Ed Jones, responding to a March 2007 media query, confirmed that he had flown one of the aircraft in the formation that dropped flares on the night in question.[20] The squadron to which he belonged was in fact in Arizona on a training exercise at the time, according to the Maryland Air National Guard. A history of the Maryland Air National Guard published in 2000 previously asserted that the squadron, the 104th Fighter Squadron, was responsible for the incident.[24] The first reports that members of the Maryland Air National Guard were responsible for the incident were published in The Arizona Republic newspaper in July 1997. [25]"
2) Where's the smoke from the flares? Also, flares would blow and move with the wind. These lights stayed in proportion with each other. I've never seen flares do that. Also, there were no military planes in the area until after the lights had been in the sky for about 3/4 of an hour.
It didn't stay in one place in the air. I could always see it slowly moving. things look like they're moving slower when they're far away. the moon orbits the earth at 1023 m/s, but it doesn't look like it's moving very fast because it's so far away.
The thing is, there is just so much evidence for and against the existence of UFOs, I'm not sure if they're real or not, but one thing is undeniable; that aliens exist somewhere in the universe. I mean, seriously, we couldn't be the ONLY living thing in this universe! There just HAS to be life somewhere other than earth... Now, if these life forms have the technology to make spacecraft that they use to visit earth, now that I'm not sure about...
