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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

227: The Phoenix Lights

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, True Crime, History, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Strange lights seen over Phoenix in 1997 have a unique celebrity connection.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Phoenix. I'm Rebecca Leib, I'm Jason Horton, and this is Ghost Town.

0:20.5

Tonight, something strange happened in the skies over Arizona that still hasn't been fully

0:25.3

explained an event now known as the Phoenix Lights. It was extraordinary. No one knows for sure what

0:31.6

happened that night in the skies over Arizona in March, but thousands of people saw something.

0:38.0

On March 13th, 1997, between 730 and 1030 pm, thousands of people reported seeing strange bright

0:46.4

lights flying over Nevada, Arizona, and parts of Mexico. This would become the scene for one of the

0:52.0

modern world's most unexplained mysteries, the Phoenix Lights. But what you may not know is how all

0:59.2

this ties in with actor Kurt Russell. We're talking about the Phoenix Lights and the involvement of

1:08.0

actor Kurt Russell. Wow, wow, wow. My mind is racing. What could be happening? What is going on?

1:18.7

Is this some kind of large scale movie production is Goldie involved? What about their kids?

1:25.9

You're wrong on all accounts. Oh, shit. Back to the drawing board.

1:29.4

The Phoenix Lights is a pretty well-documented subject. I'm saying we're saying about this isn't

1:36.2

brand new news, but the involvement of Kurt Russell is relatively new and something you may or

1:43.5

may not know. You probably know Kurt Russell from films like Big Trouble in Little China,

1:49.4

Overboard, Escape from New York and LA, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hateful Eight,

1:56.7

and my personal favorite, The Christmas Chronicles, One and Two, whatever they are. Wow, wow.

2:04.5

Just trying to illustrious, trying to be across the board with his movies. That's good. That's good.

2:11.7

You got to pay that mortgage. But what was Kurt Russell doing around 8 p.m. on March 13, 1997,

2:18.4

and what did it have to do with one of the world's most widely witnessed UFO sightings?

2:23.7

Around the same time that night, a man in Henderson, Nevada heard a noise and looked up into the

2:28.0

night sky. He described what he heard as the loud sound of something like rushing wind,

2:32.8

and what he saw was what he believed to be something the size of a Boeing 747 flying across the sky.

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