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Any time a new Bigfoot video rockets across the world’s desktops, it gets proven fake within a few days. Any time somebody claims conclusive ghost footage – we’re all generally left wondering if it’s just a rain smudge blurring the lens of an ATM security camera.

And UFO videos – well it used to be they all looked terrible and ridiculous. It’s usually a few seconds of something flying past the sky-pointed camera – and then nothing. Today’s video is nothing like that – one version of it goes on for 15 minutes and 54 seconds, and it is mind-blowingly astounding.

One thing we’ve always found interesting is how UFO pictures and reports have changed throughout the years to match whatever the decade’s particular view of the future was. You’ve got the original disc shape, the classic cigar, and most recently there’s been an abundance of lights flying in formation.

We’ve reported on these multiple times – and with video too. There was the sighting taped by a Mexican Airforce heat sensing camera, there was the time a whole bunch of pub people filmed lights in the sky on their cell phones over Shakespeare’s hometown, and there’s the case of Diana Blackburn & Jeannie Anderson.

Well we haven’t reported on that one yet – lucky for you we will today. This is almost 16 minutes of video shot by the two ladies as they drove down Highway 5 near Bakersfield, CA. Some of the video is Blackburn saying she can’t find it on camera, and some of it is her and her friend completely in shock as they film the thing, but we couldn’t really make out anything on screen.

But huge chunks of the footage, mind you, is of quickly flashing lights blinking around what appears to be a slowly flying triangle. It’s dark out, so without the flashing lights it’d be totally invisible, which seems pretty strange for anyone with advanced technology to over look. And the lights change shape too – as if the whole ship might be.

The video consists of footage from their car as they drive down the road. They audibly decide to stop the car on three occasions, if memory serves correct, to film the ship from outside their car. The result is crazy. It’s footage that makes you inch a little closer to the screen as your jaw drops a bit. It’s also footage that makes you stop wondering what it’d be like to see a UFO.

It’s also footage jam-packed with more F-bombs than you’ve probably heard all month. There have been online commentators we’ve seen who have suggested that the high repetition of the simply-formed girls’ sentences implies they are trying too hard to sell the thing. It sounds to us more like they are in complete shock.

There was an interview conducted with the two women. Off-hand we’re not sure who conducted it, but we believe it was a UFO investigator of sorts. You can see that right here.

Then there’s the debunkers – they’ve got a valid point. It seems Blackburn has a skydiving company. One theory is that all the lights are her friends falling in formation a few different times. Interesting.