what really happened at Fatima Portugal?

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For those of you who've heard about the 70000 or so people that witnessed the sun doing crazy nonsense in the sky, what do you think really happened? I don't mean to be derogatory, but it sounds like superstitious 3rd world hysteria.

Just sounds like a bunch people starring in the sun

"It must have been 1:30 p.m when there arose, at the exact spot where the children were, a column of smoke, thin, fine and bluish, which extended up to perhaps two meters above their heads, and evaporated at that height. This phenomenon, perfectly visible to the naked eye, lasted for a few seconds. Not having noted how long it had lasted, I cannot say whether it was more or less than a minute. The smoke dissipated abruptly, and after some time, it came back to occur a second time, then a third time
"The sky, which had been overcast all day, suddenly cleared; the rain stopped and it looked as if the sun were about to fill with light the countryside that the wintery morning had made so gloomy. I was looking at the spot of the apparitions in a serene, if cold, expectation of something happening and with diminishing curiosity because a long time had passed without anything to excite my attention. The sun, a few moments before, had broken through the thick layer of clouds which hid it and now shone clearly and intensely.
"Suddenly I heard the uproar of thousands of voices, and I saw the whole multitude spread out in that vast space at my feet...turn their backs to that spot where, until then, all their expectations had been focused, and look at the sun on the other side. I turned around, too, toward the point commanding their gaze and I could see the sun, like a very clear disc, with its sharp edge, which gleamed without hurting the sight. It could not be confused with the sun seen through a fog (there was no fog at that moment), for it was neither veiled nor dim. At Fatima, it kept its light and heat, and stood out clearly in the sky, with a sharp edge, like a large gaming table. The most astonishing thing was to be able to stare at the solar disc for a long time, brilliant with light and heat, without hurting the eyes or damaging the retina. [During this time], the sun's disc did not remain immobile, it had a giddy motion, [but] not like the twinkling of a star in all its brilliance for it spun round upon itself in a mad whirl.
"During the solar phenomenon, which I have just described, there were also changes of color in the atmosphere. Looking at the sun, I noticed that everything was becoming darkened. I looked first at the nearest objects and then extended my glance further afield as far as the horizon. I saw everything had assumed an amethyst color. Objects around me, the sky and the atmosphere, were of the same color. Everything both near and far had changed, taking on the color of old yellow damask. People looked as if they were suffering from jaundice and I recall a sensation of amusement at seeing them look so ugly and unattractive. My own hand was the same color.
"Then, suddenly, one heard a clamor, a cry of anguish breaking from all the people. The sun, whirling wildly, seemed all at once to loosen itself from the firmament and, blood red, advance threateningly upon the earth as if to crush us with its huge and fiery weight. The sensation during those moments was truly terrible.
"All the phenomena which I have described were observed by me in a calm and serene state of mind without any emotional disturbance. It is for others to interpret and explain them. Finally, I must declare that never, before or after October 13 [1917], have I observed similar atmospheric or solar phenomena."

Yeah, I saw the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus icon drip oil at the Orthodox church at my hometown in Lebanon, but how is that a miracle? And healing? Scientifically explained by the power of the mind.

For those of you who've heard about the 70000 or so people that witnessed the sun doing crazy nonsense in the sky, what do you think really happened? I don't mean to be derogatory, but it sounds like superstitious 3rd world hysteria.

For those of you who've heard about the 70000 or so people that witnessed the sun doing crazy nonsense in the sky, what do you think really happened? I don't mean to be derogatory, but it sounds like superstitious 3rd world hysteria.

I've never heard of this before, but most optical solar phenomena are explainable: (links)
Sun Dog
Solar Halo (optical phenomenon)
Crepuscular Rays
Parhelic circle
Sun pillar

Four theories:
1- Lies. They needed tourism.
2- Drugs: Something in the water caused it.
3- Extraterrestrials, doing experiments with people's mind to see how that religion thing works.
4- Actual divine intervention from a real god that is different from the ones the religions worship.

I'll go with a mix of 1, 2 and 3.

While im 100% agnostic I will toss you a curveball:

What are the odds of 3 kids claiming divine visions who manage to get thousands of people to come with them to a certain spot and have one of the above optical solar phenomena happen that day (and never repeat again)?

I'm more inclined to say the whole thing was a mass hallucination or group-reinforced hysteric memory. I say this because those thousands of people were all there already under the frame of mind that something holy/otherwordly was going to happen... as experiments today have shown, all you need is for a few people in the crowd to start claiming irrational things under such conditions and in a short period of time everyone else will convince themselves that they saw something.

I'd say mass hallucination or just what occurred in ryan93's video where a bunch of ret*ds stare at the sun and applaud the artifacts they see in their burned retinas.

Seriously...they applauded. Even in the context of something divine...applauding like some freakin' magic act? Beyond stupidity.

I've seen actual footage of a lot of supposed "apparitions". A bunch of crazies stare at the Sun for an hour, f**k up their retina's, and interperate whatever crazy visual artifacts they see as "God". It's pretty pathetic

Seriously, are people THAT stupid?