Skeptoid #940: The Stephenville Lights

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This modern UFO case has been declared to be one of the most compelling ever.

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0:00.0	When top publications declare a particular UFO case to be among the very most compelling,
0:09.0	what happens when skeptical investigators look closely but can't even find any record of anything unusual
0:16.2	having happened at all. Do we question the evidence? Do we question the witnesses? Or do we question the conclusions?
0:25.0	How about all three?
0:28.0	Well that's what we're going to do right now on Scptoid.
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1:20.0	You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the Stephenville Lights.
1:27.0	Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience,
1:31.2	real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions
1:36.0	by knowing what's real and what's not.
1:39.0	Today we have a story for you from the U files. In fact it's from my own
1:44.4	UFO files and it's been sitting there for years because I never considered it
1:49.1	extraordinary enough to be worthy of an episode. But apparently now that's a minority view.
1:56.0	The story is known as the Stephenville Lights and it concerns an aerial light show that
2:02.3	astonished the residents of Stephenville, Texas
2:05.6	on the evening of January 8, 2008.
2:09.1	It was regarded by the History Channel as number four on their list of the five most credible
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