Our Lady of Assuit Need Debunking

Many people online claim there were supernatural lights at Assuit, Egypt in 2000. Looking at the video I linked, it seems like there are lights on top of/near a church with no known source. Some have put this forth as evidence for Christianity.

Here's the video that shows the lights I described.

From 2:03 to 2:25 there are intermittent flashes of light from unknown places

From 2:26 to 2:47 there is a bright light on the top left corner

From 2:48 to 4:08 there is a bright light near the cross which seems to move

Here's some pictures:








How would you explain this? What is the source of the lights? Are these photos/videos doctored?

Well, most of the pictures are just of... lights in the LIZ. They could be anything, from the Moon to Jupiter to a plane and even to an apparition of the Virgin Mary, or maybe ET crafts or Athena having a quarrel with Ares... who can possibly know. I'd stick to things proven to be real and eliminate the last three possibilities.

Picture #2 looks to me like a window reflection of some light fixture inside the room.

You might be interested also in Our Lady of Zeitoun and Our Lady of Warraq, and undoubtely many more I guess.

Desire to believe + someone starting a rumour = UFO apparitions flaps.

They actually remind me of fireworks.

There are several alleged mass sightings of an apparition of the Virgin Mary in Egypt (as well as other place in the world). For example 2 April 1968 over a Coptic Orthodox church of Zeitoun, (see https://skeptoid.com/episodes/766). Then a couple more (17 Aug 2000, March 2004) over Saint Mark's Coptic Christian Church in Assuit.

Legend has it they've been happening "for centuries"...

Assuit has a specific significance for Coptic Christians in Egypt because it's apparently where the "holy family" sheltered when hiding from Herod's soldiers.

However, despite the claim that thousands have seen it the apparition all the evidence is as poor or worse than the video posted in this thread.

Later cases just look like spotlights on low cloud, camera flashes, "exceptionally large pigeons" caught in those lights, or could even be lights deliberately shone from the nearby hills.

In a 90% muslim community novel evangelising methods by a minority might be employed...




Other newspaper stories were suitably pun heavy.