UFO ‘splits in two’ before mysteriously vanishing in eerie resurfaced video

Mesmerising footage of a UFO splitting in two has gone viral on YouTube. The craft may be linked to the 2004 Phoenix Lights, another case of the 1997 incident that rocked the nation

Eerie footage recently resurfaced of a UFO sighting that shows the alien craft splitting into two before mysteriously vanishing. The incident was part of the 2004 round of the so-called Phoenix Lights.

In 1997, thousands of people around Tuscon, Arizona, all the way to around 300 miles (482.8km) south of the Nevada border (just past Phoenix) reported seeing strange formations of lights in the sky. Some witnesses at the time claimed the lights appeared to be a V-shaped interstellar vessel – or a massive spacecraft. Others reported seeing different forms of strange lights or UFOs.

Official explanations were given for the sightings, with local Air Force bases announcing that they had been conducting routine training operations. The lights seen were from their aircraft.

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But the public hasn’t officially settled with that answer — especially now that a recent Congressional hearing on UFO research in the US has busted open decades-old conspiracy theories once more.

Testimony from a government whistleblower — former intelligence official and retired Major David Grusch — rocked the nation when he claimed that officials had discovered fallen extraterrestrial craft that contained «non-human» remains. The Pentagon was quick to deny that claim.

ChaosMoogle, the viral YouTuber who posted the video containing the footage, explained that videographer Jeff Woolwine, who captured the stunning images in October 2004, didn’t have super up-to-date technology at the time he shot the footage, explaining that it took the prolific UFO searcher several years to get the footage uploaded.

Woolwine, at the time, was using a tape recorder, the film from which he then had to convert to DVDs, which took a while. He reportedly has multiple videos of UFO sightings that have yet to be uploaded as well.

The light seen in the footage appears to move a small amount, fluctuating in brightness, before slowly splitting into two orbs of the same size. They then disappear in a second.

«This is not an infrared video — it is just a regular video, so we’re seeing it how it would be seen with the naked eye,» ChaosMoogle explains. He narrates as Woolwine zooms in and out throughout the clip.

The footage was one clip of several ChaosMoogle shared in a compilation video titled «Most Credible UFO Sightings.» In the short film, the YouTuber breaks down and analyses other videos like Woolwine’s that show captured images of UFOs.