Miracle of the Sun - Explained & Debunked - UPDATED

Virgin Mary Predicts Sun Falling from the Sky
[Un-] Explained: Debunking the weird and wonderful in (about) two minutes!

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Transcript

Did 70,000 worshipers see the sun fall from the sky?

13 October 1917, Fatima, Portugal: Over the previous months three shepherd children have witnessed apparitions of the Virgin Mary. She tells them they will witness a miracle today. A huge crowd gathers then - the rain clouds part and sun dances, changes colours, zig zags and spins. The crowd gasps in awe. Photographs appear in newspapers around the world.

Thirteen years later the events are recognized as a miracle by the Catholic Church.

Tens of thousands of worshippers witnessed a divine miracle that day.

Or did they?

The initial stories of the apparition of Mary came from the imaginations of three isolated Catholic children. Pressed to confess to their lies the children dug in and stuck to their story. By the time things had got out of hand there were thousands of worshippers waiting, watching for a miracle. The fact that they were worshippers points to a preconditioned crowd actively wanting for a miracle.

One of the children shouted to look at the sun but observatories around the world reported no suspicious solar behaviour. Worshippers did report the sun dancing, changing colours, zig zagging and spinning - but these are actually conflicting reports from different worshippers. Half of those there said they saw nothing.

Photographs of the event do not show any abnormal solar activity. They do show people looking in various directions, if this miracle did occur it clearly was not attention grabbing enough. Those gathered who stared at the sun blinded themselves with temporary solar retinopathy hence the reports of the dancing sun. Many more, through the pressure of crowds, falsely collaborated the story.

But there’s more… Watch our Secrets of Fatima video for a debunking of the messages of doom given to the three children by the Virgin Mary and the Vatican’s 80 year cover up.

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[franka]

I'm with the Catholics on this one. Something weird happened that day.

[BenLapke]

If you call these unsupported allegations “debunking”, you have a lot to learn about science, evidence and advocacy.

[blazednlovinit]

Preconditioned crowd? There were thousands of atheists there and journalists xD

[Inari]

Dismissing the people present as pre-conditioned worshipers doesn't explain why Non-Catholics, and even anti-Catholics who were present affirmed they saw the event occur. The Paper O'Seculo was anti-Clarical and yet they affirmed it happened; they just didn't call it supernatural. - Also if you are going to say that half of the people who were there saw nothing, you need to back that up with a reference in stead of just affirming it. I suspect this is not the case since there would have been such a loud outcry against it even after the event if 35, 000 of the 70, 000 didn't see anything.. Also, your claim that the pictures show everyone looking in various directions is only your own interpretation; I see them looking in the same general direction.

[robertchadwick]

When I was 12, I was at the beach along the Gulf of Mexico in the US, in the State of Mississippi. My family was there on vacation in the summer enjoying the midday sun and waves. I was with my brother bodyboarding, without a care in the world, when suddenly, I heard a voice within me say, "Look at the sun!" I did and when I did, I was amazed to see the midday sun as calm to my eyes like a candle in my home. The sun began to pulse and beat like a heartbeat. It became a heart, beating in rhythm as a human heartbeat. The sun was literately beating like a heart in the sky and pulsing brilliant colors in the sky. I yelled to my brother, sister, mother, and father to look but they could not stare as I did as their eyes could not handle the sheer brightness of the midday sun. I stood there, for more than thirty minutes, eyes wide open to the sun, on the beach, with no shade, constantly looking at the sun. I looked away then back at the sun. No sun blindness to be seen in my young eyes. The sun continued to pulse and from that pulsing sun, a stream of energy pulsed out just to the lower right and became another sun, pulsing and spinning in the clear Mississippi sky. I was and am Catholic and because of this miracle, I am still Catholic. The two pulsing sun hearts in the sky were then obviously to me to be the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I continued to see this cycle of the one pulsing heart sun becoming two pulsing heart suns for over an hour without any damage to my eyes. Now, I was and still am a hypochondriac. I constantly looked away to see if the sun was damaging my eyes. I tell you that my eyes saw no after image upon looking away. My family constantly warned me that I was going to hurt my eyes. I watched them all squinting at the midday sun while I was eyes wide open looking at it. I commented with this to bear witness to what I saw that day a long time ago and to let all of you know that I was given a great gift that I did not ask for. Jesus Christ is Lord. His Holy Mother, Our Lady, Mary is active in this world and wants us to repent to him to save our souls. I do not have the option of doubt in faith since this occurrence. The Miracle of the sun is ABSOLUTELY real. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Light. Our Lady is the Co-Redemptorist, and leads all us, her children, to her Son, the Lord God of the Universe, Jesus Christ. What I saw was tame to what was reported in 1917 in Fatima. Friends, Jesus Christ, and His Mother, Our Lady, are real and as active in this world as you and me. Take what you will from my story. God bless you all.

[JohnTSmith-jwgq]

The fact that people were soaked by rain and then completely dry along with the ground minutes later is not mentioned.

[Zeemike]

I thought you were going to explain and debunk it...I saw none of that.
Just a quick statement that it must be false.

[getcholife]

You've "debunked" absolutely nothing.
I'll say a decade of the rosary for you, though.

[pomme]

So what if it has a scientific approach? Of course it has! But the fact that the children knew the exact day and hour, this is miracle

[jasonmilleau]

"The initial stories of the apparition of Mary came from the imaginations of three, isolated Catholic children." You sure about that? Sources? I'm hearing a lot of speculation without much of anything to support it besides clever editing and a neat British accent.

[MystoRobot]

Suppositions, suppositions, wild unbacked guesses.
thousands of unbelievers who were there suddenly became believers, and people saw it from miles around: this is what happened, these are the facts.
I guess God was right when he said those who do not want to believe will sink in denial, blindness, etc, even to the most legitimate evidences of truth.

[aaronmisley]

It wasn't only worshippers. There were many atheists and freemasons went to mock it, but returned believers.

[foadrightnow]

The channel name is very apropos . . . the topic was left [Un-] Explained!

[felorobotoscope]

1. There were between 40 000 and 70 000 people there, and while sure, probably a majority of them were Catholics, they were far from all being convinced that the childrens claims were true. Especially given the fact that the Catholic Church hadn't confirmed the veracity of the apparitions and only did so numerous years later. There were also a lot of atheists and agnostics, especially given the political climate of Portugal at this time. A good example is the journalist from a pro-mason republican newspaper who kept making fun of the apparitions and the announced miracle, but came anyway to cover the story (he's the one who came with a photographer), and he witnessed the whole thing and concluded it was real.
2.Contrary to your claim, the photographs of the miracle, although not very exploitable considering the rudimentary technology and the difficult task of photographing the sun, do show a significant change from one to the others.
3.At no point did one of the 3 children point out at the sun, claiming that this was where the miracle would happen. People just spontaneously started noticing the sun moving, they hadn't been looking at previously, the attention was focused more on the tree where the Virgin Mary appeared to the children. The chlidren themselves did not know what the miracle would be or where it would come from, the Apparition just told them that she would do a miracle on this date and time.
4.You make bold claims that at least half of the people didn't see anything and that the testimonies are contradictory : can you give sources ? What testimonies are you basing yourself upon to make these claims ?
5.Your theory of a collective hallucination doesn't hold up to the facts : -too many people, -testimonies are too coherent despite no expectation whatsoever of what the miracle would be, -some people who didn't attend the event saw the miracle happen from 40km away, -the miracle left tangible evidence: the heavy rain had flooded the whole place, everybody and everything was soaking, dried up instantly, -a lot of atheists and agnostics who expected that nothing would happen, saw the miracle and were convinced.

Basically, your whole video consists of bold affirmations backed by absolutely nothing, most of which are literally in contradiction with the facts. You can't just say "nah it's all fake" and expect people to take your word for it.

[janetsavona]

Jacinta and Francisco both died shortly after the apparitions as Our Lady predicted and Lucia remained longer The children achieved high degrees of holiness and offered up heroic sacrifices for the conversion of sinners

[jolexhopealfanta]

Can you explain to me why the 3 children knew the exact date and time of the Miracle without education about astronomy? If you can not give me an explanation for this then sorry you did not debunk anything at all.

[sasquatchdonut]

I have a rosary with the soil from Fatima in it. My grandfather had a cardiac arrest and went a fairly long time without oxygen. I was praying with this very rosary and he is alive and completely back to normal and in amazing shape. The doctors and emts did their job well but God allowed my grandfather to live.

[LSDANNYx]

Aight here's my story. I was born in as a cradle Catholic, and the first time I witnessed a miracle was about two years ago. My godfather, Bill Arnold, had a seven-day vision where he went to Heaven (he describes it as looking like a golf course) and talked to God and even saw the other worlds God created, which I'm still not sure are in this dimension. SO MANY MIRACLES have been performed by this man (now deceased) in the name of Jesus Christ, who, on another occasion, WALKED INTO HIS ROOM and described the Divine Plan. He prophesied to my dad that my dad would have sons; heirs. My dad had FOUR SONS from THREE DIFFERENT WOMEN. My brothers. Bill Arnold always stressed Submission in Christ's Salvation. Submission to the Divine Will of God. If you would believe me, I can tell you SO MUCH SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE given to Bill by the Holy Spirit. Even I, as a child in his house, started prophesying, as the Spirit of Christ at one point did in fact come over me. Here are the miracles that happened to me during my spiritual journey.
I was walking out of a church (I don't remember the name as it was really far) with my Grandma Ning's (who is Filipino) friend Nancy (also Filipino). Nancy has a disability so she can only walk slow, and I was supporting her while walking out of the church. All of a sudden, a wind came of Nancy and I, and it smelled like roses. A thousand roses. Heavenly roses. This is a manifestation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This miracle perplexed me very much and I needed to get closer to the divine.
The second miracle was on July 30th, 2016, on the LAST Saturday of the month. My Grandma and I were at St. Timothy's Church in Century City. All the doors were closed (it was cold outside) and we were waiting for the priest to do confessions. He, however, sent someone to tell us he would do them after Mass. So we waited, my grandma and I sitting in front of the statue of St. Joseph. I was staring at the tabernacle, as GOD resides there in the Host. ALL OF A SUDDEN, a WIND came over us, and it smelled like ROSES. This was the same rose smell but crazy intense. This wind went THROUGH MY BODY TOUCHED AND FILLED my inner SOUL. You know how there are pictures of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts? I felt my heart in that same position. My heart melted; it was as if it was poured out like water. In that moment, while STARING AT THE TABERNACLE, I felt ecstasy. I felt a love in my heart that was greater than ANY other love I've experienced on earth, not even from my own father.
The third miracle was the Miracle of the Sun. Nancy, my Grandma, and I went to I think Saint Basil's Church in Downtown LA, for the a Mass dedicated to the Feast Day of God the Father, on the First Sunday of August (this occurred August 7, 2016). After we attended Mass, we drove to West Covina to drop off Nancy at her house. After we left, we got to an intersection. It was about 5-ish and the sun was going to set soon, but it WAS NOT right next to the horizon.
I looked up at the sun, and the sun that we see EVERY DAY was BLUE. Bright blue, and the whole sky around it was RED. I stared at the sun, and it didn't hurt my eyes (confirming it was from God). I looked at my grandmother and said, "Grandma, what do you see?" She told me "The sun is blue and the sky is red, and now it's blinking at us." I looked at the sun again, and now it was flashing super fast brilliant colors, purple, green, yellow, blue, orange, more colors than I can describe with human language. I watched in awe as the SUN got bigger, smaller, and bigger again, which was insanely trippy, and IN THAT MOMENT, I knew I had to do things that would validate what I saw so I could be like "hey yeah I was conscious when I saw this, but I didn't want to get out a camera phone to take a picture, a I thought that'd be disrespectful, and plus I wanted to savor every moment of this divine experience. I looked away, and looked back at the sun, still blinking a plethora of colors and now ACTUALLY MOVING FROM ITS FIXED POSITION IN THE SKY AND WHIRLING/ROTATING TOWARDS THE EARTH. This actually gave me vertigo to look at. The sun was blue as we drove away, saying a rosary was we went back home, and the sun eventually became normal again.
NOBODY else on the road saw what we saw. Nobody got out of their cars. My grandma and I are the only ones who could see it. This miracle happens every day to my grandma when she goes to work as well, but it was crazy to see even once. Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation, you must eat the fruit of the Tree of Life (the Cross), I am here to inform, not to convince (the Holy Spirit will convince you) and if you don't believe me, I'm only GIVING my testimony, because I have witnessed the glory of the Lord.

[seannoll]

The fact that a solar event wasn't reported anywhere else in the world makes the story even more credible. Otherwise it could have easily been explained as an eclipse or something that was recorded in history. But you can't explain away an event that tens of thousands of people witnessed in a single place that was predicted to happen there.

[Onlyafool]

Why do you argue believing in miracles to disprove god but when its miracles in favor of god you ignore?