Science & spaceGalactic OriginPHOENIX LIGHTS (1997) — A Short Film

PHOENIX LIGHTS (1997) — A Short Film

Long-form22:59Film & AnimationPublished Sep 27, 2026, 1:40 PM · 3w ago
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30
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1.3K
3.2% of views
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136
0.34% of views
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$191–$477
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Description

Making These UFO short films is expensive, and so you can now support our efforts on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GalacticOrigin Your help would be greatly appreciated. We have many more short films planned, the goal is to capture all famous UFO cases in a cinematic short film format. A Special Thanks to "Flower Rebels" for allowing us to use their Beautiful Song "Stay Out" (teenagers camping in the desert scene): https://youtu.be/OdKpTJ3jSOY?si=_AXBm85H-6q-sTO7 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PLOT On the night of March 13, 1997, thousands of witnesses across Arizona watched an impossibly massive, silent craft glide across the night sky, occluding the stars from Henderson, Nevada to Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. Hours later, an A-10 flare drop over the Barry M. Goldwater Range provided the official narrative — and the real encounter was thus successfully covered up. PHOENIX LIGHTS (1997) is a dramatized period short film exploring the event through the lens of psychological dissonance, broadcast media, and orchestrated denial. From the late-night newsrooms fielding frantic caller accounts to Governor Fife Symington’s own sighting of the craft, the film captures the unsettling tension between what was witnessed in silence and what was laughed away in public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Arrival 1:19 - Henderson, Nevada 3:27 - Camping Teenagers See the Craft 5:17 - The Craft Reaches Phoenix, Arizona 7:28 - Governer Symington's Sighting 9:21 - Panic at Luke Airforce Base 10:26 - The Jet Fighters Launch 11:13 - CIA Headquarters 11:55 - The Craft Powers up 13:00 - The Agents Arrive 14:34 - The Psyop Begins 16:32 - The CIA Coverup 17:07 - The Newsroom Call 18:36 - Unwanted Guests 19:57 - The Gatekeepers' Plan 20:45 - The Visitor's Agenda ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRODUCTION NOTES: A dramatized short film capturing 1990s movie aesthetics. * Visual Generation: Seedance 2.5 / Grok Imagine / Nano Banana Pro / GPT image * Editing, Color Grading & Audio Mixing: DaVinci Resolve * Sound Design: Elevenlabs If you enjoyed this short film, please like, subscribe, and leave your thoughts on the 1997 incident in the comments below. #PhoenixLights #ShortFilm #UFO #UAP #HistoricalDrama #1997 #Cinematic #SciFiShort
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