Narrator: Next on "paranormal caught on camera"...
Whoa!
...A phantom push in a haunted fort...
Fraser: I was just really frightened. I had to stop filming.
I had to stop what I was doing.
I was -- couldn't compose myself.
...An unusual ufo hovers over the uk...
Moran: The kid seems to think it's a ufo.
He seems to think it's a ufo, and if I were there,
I would probably think it was a ufo also.
Narrator: ...A monster hunt in the utah mountains...
Slaughter: Your curiosity's going to get piqued
when you see something that big rummaging through the snow.
Narrator: ...The wrong kind of school spirit...
Sandalo: I actually thought this video
looked straight out of a horror movie.
It actually really freaked me out.
Narrator: ...A new home plagued by ghostly cries...
Kissel: That kind of wailing from a ghost like this,
it sends chills down my spine.
...And even more paranormal footage you have to see...
[ cabinet slams ]
...To believe.
♪♪
fort widley in portsmouth, England, was built in 1861.
Originally planned to keep the french out of the country,
by the time it was finished, they were no longer a threat.
Instead, it housed pows during world war ii,
and then became a bomb shelter during the cold war
until it finally closed in 1992.
Since then, the military installation
has become notorious for other worldly activity.
Reports include a ghostly whistling drummer boy
and the spirit of an angry sergeant.
Recently, a team of investigators
may have encountered one of the infamous spirits
that continue to haunt fort widley.
What do you mean something touched you?
Paranormal investigators kelly chalke and dave cook,
along with kelly's husband, fraser,
visited fort widley in July 2017
to try to make contact with one of the rumored spirits there.
The area that we're in now is the upper layer
of the northern tunnel, is that correct, dave?
That's right. Cano: I've been in that location.
I've conducted evp sections in that room,
and I've gotten audio evidence
of paranormal activity in this place.
So there are definitely presences at fort widley.
Narrator: Kelly and dave were decidedly believers,
but fraser, on the other hand, was very much a skeptic.
However, he agreed
to film his wife's ghost-hunting adventures.
I'm kelly. And I'm fraser.
Dave and I believe in the spiritual things,
but you have never believed.
You were quite a skeptical. No.
I'm more -- more about the science.
What I can see is what I believe.
I'm more science.
I don't really believe in any of this.
Kelly, dave, and fraser were in the north chamber,
focusing on making contact with the ghost of the sergeant.
They had heard stories claiming this was not
a particularly pleasant spirit and if angered,
he would make people feel uncomfortable in his space.
We're here to try and communicate
with any spirits that might be here.
We come with the greatest respect.
Dave and I at that time were very much more in tune,
if you like, or believing.
Fraser always takes the back step.
He's like -- he's like, "yeah, whatever.
I'm just here filming."
we just wish to try and get proof
of your existence or you being here.
So if you would like to show that to us in some way,
we would be really grateful.
We've got the evp recorder currently running.
Could you please try
and talk into the device for me?
They were smart to have cameras set up in different positions
where they could see everything in the room.
Could you show yourself
in some way to us, please?
Allegedly, you don't like
anybody here in your space,
male or female.
Narrator: At first, it appeared that
they weren't making any progress.
So, if you don't like us being here,
I welcome you
to get us out in some way.
But then...
♪♪
what?
What do you mean something touched you?
Something touched you?
As a cameraman, you need your low shots.
You lock yourself in, you know, automatically.
And 'cause you're locked in, you're a bit rigid.
You're not moving.
And suddenly, this thing happens.
It's like, "whoa! What the hell was that?"
♪♪
what?
What do you mean something touched you?
Something touched you?
I've personally analyzed this.
I kept watching this and watching this to see
if there's any explanation
why I sort of fell.
A lot of times, phenomena surrounds the camera guy
or the audio guy on -- on an investigation.
You know, someone that's not actually interacting with them
because they're less threatening,
they're not, you know, barking all the questions.
♪♪
what do you mean something touched you?
Something touched you?
What do you mean something touched you?
What happened? [bleep]
what happened? What happened?
What did you feel?
Somebody pushed your back?
What do you mean it feels sore?
Narrator: Fraser complained of pain in his lower back...
...So kelly and dave
lifted up his shirt to check it out.
It felt like I got kicked.
Felt like someone sort of kicked me,
like, with a boot or something.
So I was expecting, like, maybe a bruise
or something like that, but it was, like, scratches.
No!
Hayes: You can clearly see three scratch marks along his back,
which is indicative of a ghost attack.
Scratch marks often found in investigation sites
come in sets of three.
Now, many people believe
that this is done to mock the trinity.
Cooke: Ghost scratch.
No! Yep.
I love it when people who are skeptical
get to experience something paranormal
because it just challenges everything that they believe in.
Cano: I know. I used to be a skeptic,
and I've been scratched the way this gentleman was.
And sometimes, you need to experience it for yourself.
No amount of evidence, photos, video,
or anecdotes will make you believe
until you've experienced the activity for yourself.
Narrator: Fraser left that day
more open-minded to the supernatural world.
It was bizarre, wasn't it?
That was our early days of our investigating.
I acknowledge I do believe that we come on,
and we still can't fully debunk this.
And it's changed his perspective completely
on the paranormal.
It has.
It's something I've never, ever believed in
or would ever think it would ever happen,
but it happened.
[ both chuckle ]
definitely opened my eyes to the possibilities
that there could be something.
I'm not saying there definitely is,
but there certainly could be things.
♪♪
airline pilots spend countless hours flying around the world.
While in the sky, they'll often see things
they can't always explain,
like strange lights or unidentified crafts.
But one pilot had the shock of his life
while sitting in his plane parked firmly on the ground.
♪♪
in July 2017, bangkok airways captain voravit vejjajiva
was situated in the cockpit
at hong kong international airport
when he noticed something abnormal happening
in the next gate and started filming.
♪♪
cano: Now, when you first see this video,
it takes a minute to settle in because you see a walkway,
you see people walking through it, and you assume,
"okay, well, when's it going to start?
What's next?"
♪♪
but when you notice there's no plane attached to that,
these passengers are debarking from nothing.
♪♪
narrator: The pilot posted his video of the ghostly passengers
appearing to walk from nowhere, and it quickly went viral.
Sceurman: This is pretty strange.
I've never seen so many ghosts like that in a group.
It's pretty amazing. I mean, what is going on here?
♪♪
I do believe that there can be crowds of ghosts and spirits.
I think in this case, what you're seeing
is the imprint of residual energy at the location.
Just like with hotels and hospitals,
an airport sees a large turnover of people,
and what's going on individually with those people
that come through
can leave imprints regardless of the location.
I tried to see if I could pick out any personalities
to see if I could see any features clearer,
and the one consistent thing about it
was that they were very generic.
And the reason for this might be
maybe that's not the spirit of bob and joe and mary,
that's just passenger number 1, passenger number 2,
all the thousands of people that have passed through
that entry way over the years have just left behind an energy
that has coalesced into a generic traveler.
Sceurman: Maybe it was a flight that went down.
Maybe they just never reached their destination.
Maybe they just continually are getting off the plane
that they never got off.
Hayes: There was a plane that crashed in the everglades
I believe in the '70s,
and when they salvaged the plane,
they actually reused the parts in other planes
that were still in service.
And from that day on, people claim to see the spirit
of the captain of that original flight on these new planes.
And it turns out it's because these parts were reused,
and people think that the entity somehow attached themselves
to those spare parts.
♪♪
narrator: As for the pilot, he says he isn't quite sure
what he saw from the cockpit that day,
but as he travels from airport to airport,
it's likely not going to be the last time
he witnesses something paranormal.
Kissel: Pilots tend to be trustworthy.
I hope that they're trustworthy, anyway,
because they have a lot of responsibility,
and, of course, our lives are in their hands.
So the fact that this was filmed by a pilot,
I think it makes it more credible
because, of course, that's a very credible position.
♪♪
narrator: Coming up... The bigfoot hunt is on in utah.
Stubbs: Look how huge he is.
Narrator: And brave security guards
investigate a haunting in brazil.
♪♪
narrator: When brett stubbs woke up on January 2, 2019,
he thought he was going to have a nice morning out
with his children,
but before he could get the kids in the car,
a dark, mysterious figure in the distance caught his eye.
Soon, what started out as a normal day in provo, utah,
quickly took a turn
into a day brett and others would never forget.
♪♪
stubbs: He's on the mountain, way far back on the mountain,
but look how huge he is.
Seriously, look how big it is.
Narrator: Brett uploaded the video to his social-media page,
where his friend austin craig watched it and became convinced
that it showed something more than just a tall man.
Austin insisted the friends scrap the day's plans
and go investigate brett's potential cryptid sighting.
Craig: This morning, brett filmed from his home
what appeared to be a very tall man or a sasquatch.
So we're going to go investigate and see
if we can find footprints.
Craig: Should we go sasquatch hunting?
Let's do it. Let's do it.
My name is austin craig.
My friend brett recorded this from his front driveway,
and I saw it and immediately was interested.
It looked like a bigfoot.
A very tall figure, very dark head to toe,
walking up a very steep icy grade.
Moran: This was a very interesting video
because we clearly see a figure on that mountain,
and based on the perspective that we have,
it seems far too big to be a man.
No matter what, your curiosity's going to get piqued
when you see something that big rummaging through the snow.
Craig: I think that utah could possibly be a home
to something like this.
There's fossil record of large ape-like creatures
from tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago.
That's clearly demonstrated.
Gigantopithecus is a creature that did exist in east asia
and in the western north american continent.
The question is, when did it go extinct or did it go extinct?
Cano: I definitely commend these guys
for doing an investigation right away.
You see something, you go towards it.
You try to get more information.
Narrator: Austin, brett, and their friend chris
drove to the edge of town
to begin their hike up the mountain.
You know right where to go?
Stubbs: I think just straight up.
All right.
We're ascending the hillside.
It's pretty rough going.
Lots of shrubbery and brush.
Hiking up that hillside proved very hard for me
and my two friends, brett and chris.
Whatever it was that was climbing up here,
we've concluded that it was a very nimble giant
'cause it's not easy to climb this very steep, snowy mountain.
It is very steep up here.
Yeah, it's really steep, lots of snow,
not a lot of firm footholds or handholds.
I've done a lot of hiking.
I'm fairly experienced in it,
but that doesn't change the fact that it was extremely icy.
But there is not a trail up there,
and if somebody was up there on their own earlier,
they seemed to exhibit no trouble whatsoever
hiking up this extremely steep grade.
This very steep hill proved to be kind of challenging.
Brett is headed back down.
He's going to be our scout on the ground
to direct us to where the suspect was.
Narrator: But before brett could guide them
to the location of the sighting,
some markings in the snow caught their attention.
So, I'm seeing something that is not deer tracks anymore.
We're trying to determine what it -- what it is.
Next to chris, you will see a lot of disturbed snow and earth,
and it's slick like something was dragged up
or down the mountain.
It continues on up.
Cano: There seemed to be an area in the snow
where it looked like something may have slid.
Maybe whomever or whatever stumbled
and fell in the snow, creating that impression.
It's very possible you could have a clumsy sasquatch,
just like you can have a clumsy human.
Narrator: Austin and chris pressed on
as brett filmed from below.
Stubbs: Okay, I'm using my exact same phone
in the same distance where I was.
Austin's barely visible,
and chris is more visible but still very small.
Narrator: Brett quickly radioed his friends
to tell them they had gone far enough.
Stubbs: That is exactly where I saw the sasquatch,
but I really can't point out --
well, you look, I mean, it's -- you'll see in the video.
Narrator: And sure enough, when they compared side by side,
brett's original sighting
proved to be larger than a normal human.
We ended up being maybe 20 or 30 yards off
from the exact location of the sighting.
But I can say that we looked smaller.
Kissel: I liked that these people actually used
some kind of scientific method,
and you can see from the same distance
they are much, much smaller than whatever they found on camera.
Okay, we're going to hike up a little bit more,
then we're going to head down 'cause it -- sun's disappearing
and it's going to get real cold.
Stubbs: Get out of there. Get out of there.
Let's call it off.
All right, team.
It's been an adventure.
Narrator: Austin posted the video
of the investigation online,
which prompted the rocky mountain sasquatch organization
to conduct their own investigation two days later.
What they found only added to the mystery.
Guiley: It's good that we had multiple people
looking at this site
because the more people we have investigating an area
where a sighting has occurred,
the more likely we are to find all kinds of evidence.
So there certainly seems to be ground evidence
for the presence of bigfoot.
Wow.
I would have loved to have found something like that,
and I'd be very interested to talk to these people
and maybe go on an exploration with them.
You know, an outing to see if we can find other sign
or evidence of this kind of activity.
Stubbs: Seriously, look how big it is.
Narrator: During the day, schools are filled
with children learning, laughing, and playing,
but once the students leave for the night,
the dark, empty halls become the perfect place
for all the frenzied energy of the day to let loose.
And that's exactly what happened at one school in brazil.
♪♪
[ banging ]
one night in March 2017, a continuous loud banging
caught the attention of two security guards
at a school in araucária, brazil.
Unsure what could be causing such a stir,
they flipped on a camera and went to investigate.
[ banging ]
sandalo: I actually thought this video
looked straight out of a horror movie.
It actually really freaked me out.
[ banging continues ]
sturges: I've been on investigations where
there's been poundings on the wall that go on for hours,
and it's just -- it's just unnerving.
[ banging continues ]
♪♪
moran: The lights are going on and off like that
in sort of coordination with the slamming.
It's certainly in line with the kind of reports
we get of poltergeist activity, where it's sort of a frenetic
and violent manipulation of objects
and electromagnetic fields like lights.
You could tell that there was something bothering this entity
or whatever this thing is.
So whatever was happening here,
it was some sort of display of emotion, for sure.
Cano: Maybe there was something the spirit was trying
to get that guard to see.
Bang, bang, bang.
"I've got your attention. Get over here."
so, whatever was going on at this school,
it seemed like some information was trying to be brought across
because when the security guard got to that door,
the activity ceased.
Narrator: When the guards reached the door
making all the noise,
they were stumped to find only a shallow indent behind it.
They checked all around the door and the end of the hallway
but didn't find any signs of human involvement.
Sturges: From the video that we see,
there's no evidence of anybody else down there,
and it didn't look like there was really any place
for anybody to hide if there was.
Narrator: The security guards were unsure
of exactly what it was they had witnessed that night,
and have yet to experience the activity again.
But to this day, the staff says they still get the shivers
while walking down that hallway.
So, should the parents in araucária be worried
to send their children
back to the scene of this haunting display?
[ banging ]
cano: I don't think I would have any reservations
about sending a child to school here
mainly because when it comes to the paranormal,
it's part of our world.
It's good to be introduced to it,
it's good to be exposed to it, ask questions about it,
and then it becomes normal.
It's not something to be feared.
[ banging ]
♪♪
narrator: Coming up...
Menacing screams coming from the basement.
[ wailing ]
♪♪
narrator: Basements are often the creepiest part of a house.
Venturing down the stairs and into the darkness,
one is often met with dust, musty smells, and cobwebs.
But one of the spookiest parts of a basement
are the strange sounds it can omit,
and one tenant was about to find out
just how scary those noises can get.
[ wailing ]
♪♪
in early 2016, blake smith signed a one-year lease
and moved into a new house in douglasville, georgia.
Having just moved south from new hampshire,
he was excited to make his new house a home.
But just mere months after moving in,
blake began to hear something terrifying
emanating from the basement.
All right, um...
I live alone, and, uh...
I hear what sounds like crying coming from the basement.
[ muffled creaking ]
♪♪
I even called the police.
They found wet footprints down there
when I let them down there, so I-I don't know.
My name is blake smith.
It was probably about a month or two
after I had moved in is when it started...
[ muffled creaking ]
...And it got progressively worse.
Narrator: Blake worked up the courage
to personally investigate the basement...
Smith: Hello?
Narrator: ...But his presence seemed to silence the unusual sounds...
Smith: Is anyone down here?
Narrator: ...And he could not find anyone or anything
responsible for making them.
♪♪
and what he got did nothing to calm his fears.
♪♪
[ wailing ]
[ hissing ]
hayes: The sounds that emanate out of this basement are terrifying.
It sounds to me like a young child
is going through some sort of pain or anguish.
[ wailing ]
kissel: I don't know what kind of trauma
this entity experienced in real life,
but it must have been absolutely horrific.
[ wailing ]
to get that kind of wailing from a ghost like this --
it sends chills down my spine.
[ wailing ]
the first thing that came to mind for me was a banshee.
Banshee is a spirit from irish folklore
that traditionally was a woman,
a wailing woman, who, if you heard her,
was a harbinger of impending doom,
usually for the person who hears the banshee.
Narrator: Perhaps the wailing cries
were a sign of worse things to come
because it wasn't long before blake's camera
picked up something more than just sound.
♪♪
keep an eye on the bottom left of the video.
♪♪
[ scraping ]
[ wailing ]
[ scraping ]
♪♪
something like wailing that occurs in a haunted location
is probably going to be tied to an event from the past.
It would be a tragic event.
So one would have to research the history
and try to ascertain the cause of it.
[ wailing ]
♪♪
narrator: Blake learned that both the union and confederate troops
moved through douglasville,
and even though the area didn't see intense bloodshed,
two confederate soldiers were buried nearby.
Unfortunately, blake's research did nothing to quiet
the ghostly activity in his house.
♪♪
[ door slams ]
♪♪
[ door slams ]
♪♪
blake spent the remaining months of the lease
at his friends' houses before finally moving out.
♪♪
[ muffled wailing ]
I've always thought that I would enjoy
living in a haunted house...
[ wailing ]
...But I have to say, I wouldn't enjoy living in this one.
[ scraping ]
narrator: Coming up...
Something hovering in the english skies.
♪♪
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♪♪
narrator: The united kingdom has long been a hotbed
for paranormal activity.
Whether it's haunted castles, mystifying sacred sites,
or unexplainable orbs,
the country and its residents have seen it all,
and one experienced pilot may be able to add
a recent ufo sighting
to the uk's ever-growing list of encounters.
♪♪
on July 7th, 2018, brett lydiatt was enjoying a summer evening
in his backyard in banbury, England with his family
when he noticed something strange hovering in the sky.
As a private pilot, brett has always been fascinated
by what's in the atmosphere,
so what he saw that day especially intrigued him.
♪♪
lydiatt: Got you. Look at that.
Hi, my name is brett lydiatt.
I was the one who filmed it.
Since I was a kid, I've always loved the sky.
It's been my element.
I just love everything that fills the sky
and especially aviation.
I am a private pilot, so I do, like, you know,
think that I know what I'm talking about
when I see something.
The fact that the man who shot this video is a pilot
means that the man has operated expensive machinery in the air.
He knows about aerodynamics,
and the fact that he finds it odd
and it's moving in a way that is unfamiliar to him
lends credence to the fact that it is something else.
Lydiatt: That's a superb ufo.
I was sitting in the back garden with my friend.
He was there to see it, my daughter was there to see it,
my wife was there to see it.
♪♪
no.
The kid seems to think it's a ufo,
he seems to think it's a ufo, and if I were there,
I would probably think it was a ufo, also.
♪♪
lydiatt: Cigar-shaped.
It might be just a saucer on its side.
On its side.
Through the naked eye, it was bigger.
It was cigar-shaped, dark gray, almost black,
and the light reflected off of it.
♪♪
or it was a light on the craft itself,
I don't know, but there was a light moving along it.
Slaughter: It seemed to be this metal contraption.
You would think something like that would be heavy.
Something like that would have weight.
It wouldn't float like that.
Girl: Whoa! Lydiatt: Can you see it?
Yeah, it's black.
It's just staying there in one place.
This ufo has a striking similarity to the oumuamua,
which was the cigar-looking spacecraft
that was spotted just recently.
Narrator: Oumuamua was a cigar-shaped interstellar object
observed in the solar system in October 2017.
Two harvard scientists published an article
on its unusual characteristics and concluded
that it could possibly be an alien probe.
If the harvard scientists were right,
it certainly would add some legitimacy
to cigar- or cylinder-shaped objects
flying around in our skies.
Lydiatt: I think there's enough evidence, historically,
to suggest that we are not alone
and we're being visited on this planet
for centuries, if not millennia.
I'm really sorry. I can't hold this still,
but I ain't got time to setup the tripod.
Narrator: Not satisfied with the quality of the footage he was recording,
brett decided to head inside to get a better camera.
But as soon as he stopped filming it,
the object disappeared.
As I turned the camera off to go and get the tripod,
the thing just shot up in the sky and was gone.
Where is it?
Narrator: What's more is that brett and his family
may not have been the only ones to have seen the ufo.
Lydiatt: Where this was situated in the sky,
the controlled airspace --
it runs down from birmingham all the way down
to heathrow, london.
And it's very busy airspace,
and that was exactly where it was
at that sort of altitude where they fly over.
It was about 7,000 or 8,000 feet up.
And what I did notice while that was there
was that there was nothing in the airways flying,
and as soon as it was gone,
then they started coming through again.
Narrator: That was enough to convince brett
that he truly witnessed something special.
I've never seen a ufo like that. I just think I'm lucky...
[laughs] or unlucky. I don't know.
♪♪
that's a superb ufo.
Narrator: Coming up...
A poltergeist steals the spotlight.
[ cabinet door slams ]
♪♪
narrator: The popular conception of haunted houses
is that they're always old, rundown places,
that ghosts are manifestations
of the home's decades of history,
heightened by dusty floors, broken windows,
and creaky stairs.
But sometimes the explanation isn't so easy.
When it comes to paranormal activity,
sometimes it's just beyond our understanding.
[ cabinet door slams ]
♪♪
one day in 2006,
benjamin ivey was at his mother's house
in clinton, mississippi,
filming a how-to video for his graphic design class.
What he didn't know was that behind him
something else was competing for the spotlight.
Some of the materials that you'll need to create
a cover sheet are, of course,
you'll need some scissors, you'll need some tape.
I like to use the thick masking tape.
Sandalo: These are actually my favorite type of paranormal videos
because the person who's filming it
wasn't intending on capturing something.
It just happened in the background without them knowing.
Some of the materials that you'll need to create
a cover sheet are, of course,
you'll need some scissors, you'll need some tape.
I like to use the thick masking tape.
Narrator: Benjamin continued with his lesson
until the phenomenon could no longer be ignored.
So that it's slightly longer
than the matte board your artwork is matted to.
[ cabinet door slams ]
♪♪
hi. I'm benjamin ivey.
This was a video that I created
as part of a class I was teaching at the time.
I was just kind of in the moment
trying to deliver and practice a lesson for that day.
...The matte board your artwork is matted to.
[ cabinet door slams ]
I jumped when the door slammed.
I didn't know what caused that or what would have made
such a loud bang at the time.
Moran: It is a subtle movement,
but it's enough of a movement that it doesn't look like
it could have been caused by a breeze or something like that.
[ cabinet door slams ]
♪♪
ivey: My first thought was maybe there was, like,
an animal inside the house.
We don't live out in the country,
but we certainly get a squirrel in the attic
or a bird will fly in,
and so I thought maybe something had just gotten in my house.
When I opened it up, I didn't hear or see anything else.
It was then that I realized, "hey, I got that on camera.
Maybe I can see what was on the actual video itself."
♪♪
that was probably when I was most surprised --
just to see the fact that it opened on its own
and closed on its own.
The materials that you'll need...
Narrator: No rational explanation seemed to fit,
which led benjamin to consider...
[ cabinet door slams ]
...Other explanations.
It's a relatively new house.
There was no previous owners or anything,
and that was the first time anything major has happened.
I certainly believe in ghosts.
I think that it could have been some sort
of interesting activity to go on with that.
Guiley: Things just don't happen as a one-off
just for the heck of it.
There's usually a story behind it,
a reason why activity is taking place.
Hayes: Perhaps this entity has been trying to get
this gentleman's attention for quite a while.
And it knew what a camera was, knew the camera was rolling,
so it knew this is the moment
to do something big to capture this guy's attention,
and I think it certainly worked.
Narrator: But if it was someone trying to communicate from the other side,
then who was it?
And perhaps more importantly, what were they trying to say?
Was it a cry for attention?
For help?
Perhaps a warning.
For now, that remains a mystery.
My advice to someone who's experiencing activity like this
is stay calm.
The walls aren't bleeding, the house isn't levitating.
You're going to be okay.
...Your artwork is matted to.
[ cabinet door slams ]
narrator: Coming up...
Mysterious lights reappear over phoenix.
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narrator: On March 13th, 1997,
a group of strange hovering lights
appeared in the night sky over phoenix, arizona.
This caught the attention of many residents that night,
including the arizona governor, and captivated the nation.
The incident became known as the phoenix lights,
but the story only grew more curious from there.
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guiley: Now, many of the people who witnessed this formation
were convinced that it was non-earthly in origin,
and even the governor at that time
said later that he witnessed a craft on that night.
And other people said that they thought they saw
craft as well behind the lights.
Narrator: Back in 1997, much fewer people had a camera
at the ready than today, so this footage
is among the only existing video recordings of the incident,
and it only managed to capture three of the up to seven lights
in the v-shaped formation reported by many eyewitnesses.
Sceurman: It was this big triangle that just hovered over the city
or a long time.
It was a pretty big deal in the ufo community at the time.
Narrator: The government didn't come out with any explanation,
leaving many curious about what it was they had seen.
I think the fact that they didn't even
want to investigate it, they didn't want to offer
"it was a weather balloon" adds to the fact that,
"all right, something's going on."
narrator: When similar lights appeared in the arizona sky
a decade later, ufologists were excited,
but this time the military released an official statement,
dismissing the sighting as flares
related to exercises in the air nearby.
Moran: The government's explanation
of it being flares doesn't sit well
with the visual evidence that we have.
Flares don't behave like the objects that we're seeing here.
Narrator: For many, the case was closed
until 2015, when some lights near phoenix
showed up yet again.
Kerrie zakaras and her husband were driving home from work
when they noticed some mysterious activity.
They decided to record it on their smartphones.
My name is kerrie zakaras.
My husband and I actually kind of co-filmed it
together in the car.
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when we saw them and they didn't move,
we were like, "oh, my goodness.
It looks like the lights over phoenix."
so, we headed out towards the hills
and decided to go investigate.
Hayes: So, the video we see here looks eerily similar
to a lot of the phoenix light videos from 1997.
Moran: Well, I don't think we have to ask,
"would they recur over the years?"
I think we know that they are recurring over the years.
This is an ongoing history.
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kerrie: They were in a line -- like a perfect formation line,
but it kind of curved, and it was just very bright.
It looked like a spotlight just kind of hovering.
They never got bigger, they never got smaller.
They just stayed steady and the same size.
No matter how far we drove, they never got larger.
Narrator: Kerrie took the video to the local news
hoping they might be able to get some answers.
Interestingly, the military did respond
and claimed that they were once more just flares.
I don't know what a flare looks like
when it drops from the sky
or what kind of military grade these flares are,
but it was definitely interesting to see
that finally an explanation came out.
Kissel: Perhaps the military is trying to keep this under wraps
for public-safety concerns, which is extremely possible
because who knows how human beings would react
if there's actually extra terrestrials hovering above us?
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kerrie: Unh-unh.
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my healthcare background,
we always kind of try to focus people back to,
you know, like, you know, "there's no alien life-forms."
but then when you see something that odd,
you kind of start doubting everything.
You know, we're so close to area 51,
so we're kind of surrounded by that and, you know,
the whole mystery of, you know, what really happened.
Is there stuff out there?
Narrator: Whatever the lights were,
the over 20-year history of the phoenix lights
continues to confound the people of arizona
and ufo truth seekers the world over.
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what should you do in the event
you witness something paranormal?
Here are some tips to get it all on camera.
Hit record the moment you witness something strange,
go to where the spirits are,
always expect the unexpected,
and if you do catch something,
e-mail us at submitparanormal@gmail.Com.
Your footage could be seen right here
on "paranormal caught on camera".
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