Phoenix UFOs were elaborate prank
Heh:
A Phoenix man says he caused the red light display that mystified thousands of people as it floated across the north Phoenix sky Monday night.The man, who did not want to be identified, said he used fishing line to attach road flares to helium-filled balloons, then lit the flares and launched them a minute apart from his back yard. He said he believed turbulence created by a passing jet caused the balloons to move around.
Best! Prank! Ever!
P.S. But what about the Florida UFOs? Was this a coordinated, two-state prank?
UPDATE: Apparently the Florida lights were caused by sky lanterns released from an Asian wedding.
Or, you know, aliens. One or the other.
That's not elaborate, that's the simple genius!
Posted by: john | Apr 24, 2008 9:23:24 AM
I think road flares and Arizona is more idiocy than genius. Now, had he used high powered LED's in multiple colors and programed them to flash in a random sequence.... That would have been genius, and at least 20 times more expensive.
Posted by: dcl | Apr 24, 2008 9:42:00 AM
The guy will probably be arrested on terrorism charges because the flares allowed illegals crossing the border to see at night.
Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | Apr 24, 2008 9:53:05 AM
Boy, am I glad I was out of Kool-aid last week !
Oprah, put that angeldust down. That's for tonight !
Posted by: Eckhart Tolle | Apr 24, 2008 10:02:07 AM
the flares allowed illegals crossing the border to see at night.
So it WAS an alien attack!!
;)
Posted by: Brendan | Apr 24, 2008 10:10:28 AM
waves hand
These are not the UFO's you're looking for.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie | Apr 24, 2008 10:17:10 AM
um... yeah. and the thing that crashed in Roswell, NM sixty years ago was a weather baloon ;-)
Posted by: jlr | Apr 24, 2008 11:12:19 AM
I have it on good authority (a relative who was actually at Roswell at the time) that the "UFO" that crashed was an Army Air Force bomber that was carrying a nuke and slammed into a mountain side. The cover story, first of the UFO and then of the weather balloon, was to keep Soviet agents from snooping around looking for details.
Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | Apr 24, 2008 12:02:38 PM
Of course, the "cover story" had the opposite effect.
Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | Apr 24, 2008 12:03:12 PM
The balloon flares are surely a cover story from the government. I mean, Americans aren't that stupid to mistake flares for alien flying objects.
Posted by: Medina | Apr 24, 2008 4:13:55 PM