Across the UK, across Continental North America and around the world on the internet by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is The Unexplained.

Thank you again for coming back to the show, edition 32 with Gerald Salente, the global

trend watcher, is still available, that was only put on the site. About a week or so

ago, depending on when you're hearing this, Gerald, a fascinating man in America who made

time for us in his busy schedule to talk about things like the possibility of a terrorist

attack somewhere in the world during this year, and also the prospects for our economies.

Fascinating and riveting listening, edition 32. This is edition 33, and it is another special,

marking or even celebrating 13 years almost to the day, since The Phoenix Lights. If you

haven't heard of them, perhaps you're in the UK and you haven't. The Phoenix Lights

was arguably the biggest UFO, if that's what it was, encounter since Roswell in 1947.

Phenomenon scene by thousands and thousands of people, I've got the Wikipedia definition

of it here. It's just interesting to look at it. And it says The Phoenix Lights, sometimes

referred to as The Lights Over Phoenix, were a series of widely cited optical phenomena,

generally unidentified flying objects that occurred in the skies over the US states of

Arizona and Nevada, and the Mexican state of Sonora on the 13th of March 1997. A repeat

of the lights occurred on February the 6th, 2007, and was filmed by a local TV station.

Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 7.30pm and 10.30pm

in that time zone, in a space of about 300 miles from the Nevada state line through Phoenix

to the edge of Tucson. There were two distinct events, according to Wikipedia. A triangular

formation of lights seemed to pass over the state, and a series of stationery lights seen

in the Phoenix area. Wow. That is a definition of that. But the funny thing about The Phoenix

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