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| Mysterious Lights Spotted Over Phoenix Again |
| 2007-02-08 |
| Hat tip: Drudge Nearly a decade after the highly publicized ‘Phoenix Light Phenomenon’, more strange lights have appeared in the night sky over downtown Phoenix. Tuesday night, mysterious lights lit up the western skies over Phoenix and soon after, phones began ringing off the hook at radio, television and police stations from witnesses wondering what the lights were. The Yuma Marine Base claims it has the answer. Base officials said the amber-colored flares came from training flights on the Goldwater Gunnery Range. They went on to explain that the amber flares are used as targets. Witnesses said it appeared the flares were flying in a formation and base officials explained that the flares float down to Earth attached to parachutes. Back in March of 1997, a huge object was spotted over parts of Arizona that many witnesses believed to be an extraterrestrial spacecraft that was drifting slowly and silently over the region. The ‘Phoenix Light Phenomenon” became one of the most publicized and well-documented UFO sightings in recent history. The Air Force said they were flares from an A-10 but many critics said flares couldn’t fly on their own over such a large distance. The Discovery Channel has done a special on the lights. A movie has even been made about them which recently came out on DVD. Video at link |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #14 That's nothing; I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. |
| Posted by: Luke S. 2007-02-08 19:37 |
| #13 Anonymoose, I once spent a very interesting day with Paulo Soleri, the founder of Arcosanti. But that was long ago in a galaxy far, far away. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-02-08 19:13 |
| #12 The best black helicopter sighting was at Arcosanti, a bizarre hippy art colony North of Phoenix. For some unexplained reason, some helicopter pilot took his attack helicopter up there and hovered about 30 feet off the ground. The irate hippy-arteests started to throw rocks at it. This prompted the pilot to swivel his front gun at them, which did not impress the hippies, so he ended up flying away, perhaps so the imbeciles wouldn't damage his very expensive aircraft with rocks. A friend who watched the whole thing noted with interest that there was no ID numbers on the helicopter, which he thought was a major FAA no-no. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-02-08 18:51 |
| #11 I had enough tinfoil to completely block out the sensation... |
| Posted by: Intrinsicpilot 2007-02-08 15:40 |
| #10 I bet 50 quatloos is was the Greys. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-02-08 14:26 |
| #9 Hey, wasn't Swamp (Gas) Blondie from Phoenix? Pretty suspicious, Ima thinking. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-02-08 14:13 |
| #8 Gotta be them Nordics again. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-02-08 13:53 |
| #7 And, in others, spellin' is in short suppy, too, lol! |
| Posted by: BA 2007-02-08 13:31 |
| #6 Moderate Crop Circle Watch |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-02-08 12:58 |
| #5 in some, Common Sense is in short suppy. |
| Posted by: Glolurt Omolunter4052 2007-02-08 12:11 |
| #4 You saw "a video" that was alleged to be the Phoenix lights. It was actually part of a process of disinformation. 1) At first, it was all over the news, and people were going outside to look at the aircraft. One man even used his video camera to tape the thing, which hovered about 150 feet over his house for several minutes. 2) Several prominent people demanded an inquiry and were told that they were kooks and to shut up. 3) Three or four days after the event, the local TV news showed wide-angle video of the Phoenix skyline at night and claimed it was of the "Phoenix lights", even though no elevated or moving lights were shown. 4) Within a week, the Arizona Republic published an editorial damning "conspiracy theorists", etc., and claiming that no evidence existed about the lights. The Phoenix New Times also jumped on the bandwagon, and still uses derisive language against "Phoenix Lights" proponents, while advertising the professional UFO kooks. 5) Since then, other video has been provided showing several different normal flying or hovering objects, labeled as "The Phoenix Lights." Practically speaking, Phoenix is a transit point for Army and Air Force aircraft to and from both Nevada and New Mexico, and California. There is one major North-South helicopter and low-level corridor from Phoenix to Flagstaff, generally over the Verde River (NE of Phoenix) area. Any unusual aircraft would be transiting here, and "black helicopter" sightings were common when the Boeing helicopter plant in Mesa (E of Phoenix) was in operation. Common sense speculation was that some advanced Groom Lake aircraft with hover capability had a bad transmission problem over Phoenix. The rather strained disavowing of the event can be just put down to overenthusiastic security officials. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-02-08 11:09 |
| #3 McCain's Campaign getting off to a flying start? |
| Posted by: doc 2007-02-08 10:50 |
| #2 I saw the video of the "Phoenix Lights" the first time it happened. Took me 5 seconds to ID them as parachute flares dropped in a string from high altitude. |
| Posted by: Steve 2007-02-08 10:37 |
| #1 Once again the government steps up with their 'we can't let the people know the truth' mentality. this time it's Marine flares. But it's the same old bullshit. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-02-08 09:42 |