Here's a big problem with not just Jim's analysis, but other folks as well; They say "well we shot flares at night and filmed them with the same type of equipment that the Phoenix Lights were shot with. And these show up on analysis as flares. But the Phoenix Lights do not show up as flares."First off, that's like comparing the ballistics of a .50 caliber round with those of a 9mm round. Apples and oranges. The flares that civilians have access to, like the little piddly pencil flares that you would have in a survival kit to launch from your rowboat as you got lost at sea are 1000% different then the flares an A-10 would carry (or a P-3C Orion - which I flew in). There are even multiple types of flares that one aircraft would use at the same time. For example, a plane might have SUU/25 parachute illumination flare dispensers mounted on the wings (which look almost identical to a rocket pod, except flares are rearward firing) and they might also carry flares as defense against an inbound missile. Below are some photo's of how large a SUU/25 flare pod is compared to dealing with flares to fool an inbound missile to hand held pencil flares.BTW - to give you an idea of the length of one of these pods, the distance between the yellow lugs on top (which latch into the bomb rack) is 14 inches. So one can tell these things are pretty large.Then look how tiny the flares that are used to trick an inbound missile threat are;Now look at the size of typical survival situation/pencil flares are;So now when you hear "experts" claim that they themselves shot off flares but it looked nothing like the Phoenix Lights video - you know why. You can say "Yeah, no kidding. Did you rent an A-10 Thunderbolt & have SUU/25 flare pods loaded with flares and launch them from altitude? Or did you shoot off a hand held flare gun or pencil flare in the Wal Mart parking lot?" They're comparing apples & oranges.