Film Review: Lights in the Sky
Krista Alexander’s documentary, “Lights in the Sky.”
Listening to the Cryptonaut Podcast( Episode 144) I heard Krista Alexander talk about her documentary “Lights in the Sky.” It tells the story of her investigation into the spate of mysterious drone sightings over Colorado, Nebraska and Nevada that occurred last December and this January, and her theories as to what is behind those sightings.
A professional journalist and videographer, she took videos uploaded onto a FB page of the sightings and using her editing software, boosted the contrast and the brightness of the videos, and was shocked by what she saw.
These were not drones; there were no physical objects attached to the lights. They were just--lights. Not only were they lights, they didn’t behave the way conventional lights do; there were no beams, and they moved---in very odd, seemingly intelligent ways.
So of course, I had to see the documentary. Available for streaming for a modest price via Amazon Prime, the documentary is well worth watching. The first twenty minutes of footage where she shows the lights after she zoomed in, boosted the contrast and brightness left me speechless. The color changes, the organic way they move--almost like microbes or worms--the way that they come together and then separate---this is fascinating. They look very like lights that my daughter and I saw over Athens Christmas night--though we never even thought to video them, because they weren’t as close as the lights the witnesses out west saw.
Her analysis of the footage is spot on and I cannot argue with it. The rest of the documentary however, I found to be--while interesting, less convincing. This is in large part due to the rapid-fire and shallow nature of the connections that she makes between the lights and other phenomena. Her theory as to what the lights may be rings true to me, but the connections made in the documentary are not strong enough to convince someone who isn’t as familiar with the material she presents as I am.
My husband watched it with me and he was spellbound by the opening twenty minutes or so of the documentary--and he was convinced that those lights are absolutely not any sort of unusual atmospheric conditions or conventional flying aircraft.
But when she started putting together evidence for her theory as to their nature, in his eyes, it was scattershot and not convincing. This all said--I do not regret watching it and I think Alexander is on to something. I think a more fleshed out effort would be more convincing to those who aren’t already well-read on the subject of UFOs or UAPs or LITS or whatever you want to call them.
