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The Phoenix Incident (2015)

The Phoenix Incident poster
Directed by
Keith Arem
Genre
science fiction film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 21m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 60 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film is presented as a documentary using found footage. It follows an alleged conspiracy behind the Phoenix Lights, a famous mass UFO sighting in 1997. The story focuses on events in and around Phoenix, Arizona during the sighting.

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What happens

The Phoenix Incident is a 2016 American science fiction horror film written and directed by first time director Keith Arem, and starring Yuri Lowenthal, Troy Baker, Liam O'Brien, Michael Adamthwaite, Jamie Tisdale and Brian Bloom. Presented as a documentary found footage film based on real events, it is set in the present day and focuses upon an alleged conspiracy behind the Phoenix lights, a mass UFO sighting which occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico, on Thursday, March 13, 1997. On that date, lights of varying descriptions were reported by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST in a space of about 300 miles (480 km) from the Nevada state line, through Phoenix, to the border of Tucson. The film focuses on the main events in and around Phoenix during this time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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