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EPISODE · Mar 23, 2026 · 34 MIN

Keith Arem's The Phoenix Incident

from Exploring Humanity Through Sci-Fi · host Tony Tellado

This episode dives into Keith Arem, a director, writer, and audio director whose career spans more than 600 commercial releases across film, television, music, and video games. We explore his 2016 feature The Phoenix Incident, a found‑footage thriller inspired by one of the most widely witnessed UFO events in modern American history: The Phoenix Lights. 🌌 The Phoenix Lights: Real‑World Event On the night of March 13, 1997, thousands of residents across Arizona and Nevada reported seeing a series of unexplained lights in the sky between 7:30 PM and 10:30 PM MST. Witnesses described: A massive, silent craft shaped like a carpenter’s square Five stationary lights arranged along its leading edge A slow, gliding movement that blocked out the stars No conventional aircraft behavior or sound The event remains one of the most documented and debated UFO sightings in U.S. history. 🎥 About The Phoenix Incident Keith Arem’s 2016 film blends found footage, mockumentary storytelling, and real eyewitness accounts to create a narrative that imagines what might have happened behind the scenes of the Phoenix Lights. The film follows the disappearance of four men whose final moments were captured on recovered video. Arem uses his background in immersive storytelling to blur the line between fact and fiction, creating a cinematic experience that feels unsettlingly plausible. SAVE 17% On Plus  

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This episode dives into the creative mind of Keith Arem, a director, writer, and audio director whose career spans more than 600 commercial releases across film, television, music, and video games. We explore his 2016 feature The Phoenix Incident, a found‑footage thriller inspired by one of the most widely witnessed UFO events in modern American history: The Phoenix Lights.

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