The Phoenix Incident

Synopsis: Thursday March 13th, 1997 marks the date of the Phoenix Lights, the largest mass UFO sighting in US History. The night of the incident, four Phoenix residents vanished in the Estrella Mountain National Park, south of Phoenix. Glenn Lauder (28), Mitch Adams (29), Ryan Stone (27), and Jacob Reynolds (28) were reported missing to the Maricopa County Sheriff's office. The infamous "Lauder Case" has become the longest unresolved missing person's case in Arizona history.
Director(s): Keith Arem
Production: PCB Productions
 
IMDB:
5.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
NOT RATED
Year:
2015
82 min
80 Views


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Go! Go! Go!

: Go! Go!

: They've been here before.

Belgium, Osaka, Roswell:

those were recon missions.

They were testing our weakness.

Testing our capabilities.

But Phoenix was different.

: How was it different?

- It was only the beginning.

Come on!

- What the f*** is going on,

Mitch?!

- Jesus Christ, we gotta go!

We gotta go!

- Glenn, come on! Over here!

- Keep going! Go! Go! Go!

Come on!

- Come on, Jake! Come on, Jake!

- Aargh...!

- Come on!

- What the f*** is going...?

My God...

- Sorry, if I had known

I would've waited.

- Alright, well...

- We got plenty of time.

- You know, we'll go down,

we can get to the other side,

it'll be perfect.

Come on, come on, come on.

Pick it up, Jesus Christ.

Ryan! Let's go! Come on!

- You comin'?

- Cue to John Williams.

- Wow!

- Right?!

- Wow!

- You know how we're going down,

right, Jake?

- Put Ryan on Jake's back,

push Jake down the side.

- You've done this before,

right? Just sliding?

- ...ride you like an alpaca,

man!

I'm serious, you could do it.

You go first.

Come on, go first, you can.

- Wait! Camera! Camera, camera,

camera, camera!

: Four Phoenix area

residents are missing tonight

after a local camping trip

in the Estrella Mountains.

- Despite the efforts

of the Arizona County Rescue

and the AHP,

officials continue

to scour the area

by ground and in the air,

but have found no sign

of the missing hikers.

The men were all experienced

riders, and were in good health.

- Susan Lauder hasn't heard

from her son Glenn

since Thursday morning

around 11 a.m.

- March 14th, 1997,

authorities recover

an abandoned ATV

belonging to 28-year-old

Glenn Lauder.

His food and water supplies are

found less than 50 feet away,

but Glenn is nowhere

in the area.

- ...that provided

the first real clues

as to what may have happened

to the four missing riders

on March 14th.

- The individual committing

these abductions was

extremely methodical. The

location of the disappearance

has led us to believe this was

the work of a lone perpetrator,

operating in a specific part

of the desert.

- New evidence

has come to light

linking the unexplained

disappearance

of four missing Arizona hikers.

- Sheriff's Officials arrest

Walton S. Gayson,

a retired Veteran

and religious fanatic,

with a long history

of confrontations with police.

- The Phoenix District

Attorney's Office says

Gayson was involved

in a fourth aggravated assault,

where he attacked a Maricopa

County Sheriff's station.

- Chilling testimony

from Walton S. Gayson,

now the prime suspect

in what investigators believe

may be a four-person homicide.

Gayson, seen...

: During

interrogation, Gayson confesses

he witnessed

the men's abduction,

but insisted the men were

taken by non-terrestrial beings.

: But before Gayson

can stand trial,

Gayson is taken

into Federal custody,

and all information

in the case is confiscated.

- Investigators from the FBI

will be reviewing the evidence

and will be making a statement

in the coming weeks. Thank you.

- Gayson absolutely committed

these murders,

there's no question

in my mind.

It's like we were being

sabotaged by our own country.

- You think this was

a conspiracy?

- Absolutely. Something happened

out there in the desert.

- What do you think happened?

- We got too close

to something much bigger;

the military

didn't want us to know.

- You're aware that,

by giving this interview,

they could come after you

and your family?

- Yeah, I know, I know.

- Okay, you ready to do this?

- Yeah, let's go.

- In 1997, you took part

in one of the largest

military cover-ups

in United States history.

- That's correct.

- And this involved

a direct engagement

with extra-terrestrial craft.

- That's correct.

- But the official defense

department reports

have never been disclosed.

- Congress doesn't even know

that this happened.

- This began March 13th, 1997,

during the single most

controversial UFO sighting

in North America known as

the "Phoenix Lights".

- Hey Sue! Take a look at this!

- The Phoenix Lights.

Tonight, lights in the sky.

- Phoenix, Arizona residents

are talking about

one of the nation's

largest UFO sightings.

- There was a case... oh... a

couple of years ago in Arizona,

of some lights that were seen

over Arizona.

Um, and that has never been

fully explained.

- Like a fleet of planes or

helicopters flying in formation.

- The first reports of the

strange flying object came in

about 8:
20 p.m.

from a former police officer

in Paulden, Arizona.

- ...hundreds of eye witnesses

reported sightings--

: They've been here

before.

Belgium, Osaka, Roswell:

those were recon missions.

But Phoenix was different.

- How was it different?

- This was the first time we

knew what they were capable of.

The first time we'd been

provoked into an attack,

or maybe the first time

they were.

- And as a result

of this operation, four civilian

men became collateral damage.

- Yeah...

I don't think a night's gone by

in seventeen years

that I haven't thought about

what happened to those boys

that night.

- Get down!

- Alright, so here's what I got.

See here, I had to cannibalize

a bunch of other cameras.

They are wrecked,

unfortunately, but, uh...

Yeah, that's right!

Hands free baby!

And, why hands free, you ask?

Lemme show you, with this...

Keeyah! Alright?!

You can do cool sh*t

like this... Pow!

Captain F***in' Magic, right?

- Uh, Glenn had mounted this

camera to the front of his bike

and actually one to his helmet,

too;

the best we could do

at the time, you know.

But, like,

he recorded everything,

he managed to get every stunt

way before Go Pros or,

you know, any of the sh*t

we have now.

Glenn was, um,

never scared of sh*t.

He was just fearless.

Oh ho-ho.

- And you do realize how

ridiculous you look in all this,

right?

- You look ridic... F*** you!

- He saved up his own money

to buy his cameras.

He filmed stunts, tricks,

anything you could film.

He was pointing that thing

at something.

F*** yeah! Whoo!

- When they disappeared

it was...

it was like life just stopped.

They were so fun and...

and full of life.

- You find me attractive!

- I think, that's my foot.

And then they were just gone.

Oh, you son of a b*tch.

Hey... you son of a b*tch!

So you are the best alarm clock

of all.

I know.

Alright, let's do this!

It's D-Day, motherfuckers!

Shut up! Shut up.

- Hey, are you sure you got

enough food for this weekend?

- Yeah, I got...

I got everything we need.

- I don't wanna eat bologna

and beer every day.

- No, I know. I know.

It'll be fine,

don't worry about it.

- Where are we

even f***in' going?

- Look, here, we can just...

We're right here...

- Why do we even have

to go that far?

Why can't we just, like,

hit a bar, or a...

- I'm not taking you to...

to 'Nam or anything...

- I just don't wanna get bit

by a f***in' rattlesnake.

- Look, I'm doing this

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