Something Over Colorado

There's been a wave of UFO sightings in Colorado after people saw and videotaped three red lights flying in rough formation in the night sky before fading away. Skeptic Benjamin Radford suspects a hoax. He notes the lights' relative positions change slightly on the video, which argues they weren't fixed lights on a large craft, and that the lights faded away instead of snapping out. Radford suggests the lights were road flares tied to balloons, a technique used in previous hoaxes. A weakness in the UFO case in general is that sightings tend to be local events. They are sighted in one place and not seen elsewhere. Rarely can investigators track a UFO over any distance. Possible explanations range from interdimensional travel to government cover up to the more prosaic, but the pattern seems to be there.