Breaking national press coverage of new Phoenix Lights incident
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Mystery lights reported over Phoenix
April 22, 2008
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The company’s web site says they last for up to 20 minutes, rise about a mile high and can travel for miles.
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People are looking for an explanation for mysterious red lights
that appeared in the north Phoenix sky Monday night, reminiscent of a
similar event 11 years ago.
Dozens of listeners called News/Talk 92-3 KTAR just after 8 p.m. reporting they were watching the four mystery lights.
“From my position, it looked like they were just hanging, not
moving at all," said one man, who called 92-3’s “Gaydos After Dark."
He said he “absolutely" saw something.
A woman caller said, “It looked like four red tower lights,
but it was pretty high up in the air. I called my husband and he said,
`Get home, what’s wrong with you?’"
A man in north Phoenix told CBS-5: “They were about 3,000
feet high, approximately. They looked as though they were kind of
hovering or floating from west to east, very slowly. They were up there
for 15 or 20 minutes."
Those who saw them said the lights were visible about 13 minutes before moving off to the east.
Deer Valley Airport, which was the closest air field to the
lights, had no explanation for them. Neither did Phoenix Sky Harbor
International Airport or Luke Air Force Base, which said it had no jets
flying at the time.
Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation
Administration, said, “A lot of people were reporting seeing some
strange lights in the sky around Phoenix last night. Air traffic
controllers at the control tower at Sky Harbor saw them. But, we have
no idea what they were."
Gregor added, tongue-in-cheek, “It could be aliens coming
down to save us from ourselves, you never know. The only thing I do
know is if they were coming down, they weren’t talking to air traffic
controllers."
On March 13, 1997, thousands of people reported seeing a
v-shaped formation of lights over north Phoenix. They lasted about
three hours. Some described them as forming a carpenter’s square.
Among those who saw the lights in 1997 was former Gov. Fife
Symington, who initially played down the episode. However, he said last
year that he believes the lights came from “crafts of unknown origin"
and, “It remains a great mystery."
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Mysterious lights over north Phoenix
Associated Press – April 22, 2008 8:54 AM ET
PHOENIX
(AP) – Phoenix police and media outlets got flooded with calls last
night after people spotted four or five red colored lights hovering in
the sky over north Phoenix.
Callers said the lights appeared at one
point in a straight line, and also formed a square and then a triangle.
They were visible for about 15 minutes around 8 p.m. before heading to
the east and disappearing.
Officials at Deer Valley Airport in north
Phoenix and air traffic controllers at Sky Harbor International east of
downtown Phoenix were among those who saw the lights. But they couldn’t
explain them, and the Air Force says the lights weren’t part of any Air
Force activities.
The incident was reminiscent of 1 that occurred on
the night of March 13th, 1997. That night thousands of people reported
seeing a mile-wide, v-shaped formation of lights over the Phoenix area.
Information from: The Arizona Republic, http://www.azcentral.com
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Mystery Lights Seen Over Phoenix
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April 22, 2008 09:24 AM CDT
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Posted by: Stefanie Boe, KOLD News 13 This Morning Senior Producer
It’s
happened again in Phoenix–mystery lights over the city. Monday night,
police and local media outlets received hundreds of calls after people
spotted four or five red colored lights in the sky.
Callers said the
lights were over north Phoenix and appeared at one point in a straight
line, and also formed a square and then a triangle.
According to www.azcentral.com the lights were visible for about 15 minutes around 8 p.m. before heading to the east and disappearing.
No one seems to have an explanation for the lights. The Air Force says they were not part of any Air Force activities.
Back
in March of 1997 thousands of people saw lights over the Phoenix-area.
In that instance they were white and shaped like a "v".
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UFO Alert: The Lights and Military Jets Are Back Over Phoenix Diary Entry by Bill Knell
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Less than a week after
strange lights appeared in the skies over Northern Indiana and off the
Jersey Coast, lights have returned to the skies over Phoenix. ::::::::
Less
than a week after strange lights appeared in the skies over Northern
Indiana and off the Jersey Coast, lights have returned to the skies
over Phoenix. The lights were seen on Monday might (April 21, 2008) and
are similar to the infamous display of bright objects in the night sky
seen in March of 1997 over Phoenix, Arizona. Originally dubbed ‘The
Phoenix Lights’ after they first appeared ten years ago, the lights
have made several appearances since that time.
According to
witnesses (which included a Reporter for the Arizona Republic
newspaper), the Monday night light display seen over Deer Valley and
other locations featured red lights. The bright objects morphed into
various shapes and sizes, eventually forming a triangular and square
shape. At least three U.S. Military jets chased the lights as they
moved west to east in the sky. Officials from Deer Valley Airport
officials said that none of their aircraft were responsible for the
lights.
Comparable events took place over the skies of Stephenville
and Dublin, Texas, back in January and have become known as ‘The
Stephenville Lights’. According to multiple witnesses, U.S. Military
jets chased at least one large object during that occurrence. The jets
may have continued to show up in Erath County, Texas, along with
military helicopters, to investigate the reappearance of lights and
other types of UFOs during the day and night since that time. Military
aircraft have also buzzed the home of one or more UFO witnesses living
in that area.
Lights similar to those seen over Phoenix also
appeared on Tuesday and Wednesday (April 14-15, 2008) over the towns of
Kokomo and Logansport in Northern Indiana. Those lights were
accompanied by loud sounds, an odd metallic odor in the air, the
appearance of military aircraft and debris falling from the sky.
Earlier in the evening on Wednesday night (April 15, 2008), a fishing
boat captain reported seeing a huge object split into smaller lights
off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey and said that he felt a
brief tremor after that event.
In the case of the original Phoenix
Lights, the Stephenville Lights, the lights in Northern Indiana and
those seen off the Jersey Coast, the U.S. Armed Forces claimed that
they were just military exercises mistakenly reported as UFO sightings.
However, a spokesperson for Luke Air Force Base said that they had no
aircraft in the sky and that the lights seen over Phoenix on Monday
night were not a part of any Air Force activities.
While it’s
doubtful that any known military or civilian aircraft were responsible
for the appearance of the latest lights over Phoenix and Luke AFB has
admitted as much, witnesses say that military jets were present during
the event and chased the lights across the night sky. That is in direct
conflict with the Luke AFB spokesperson’s claim that none of their jets
were in the sky on Monday night. However, it’s a nice change to find
the military not immediately trying to explain any and all UFO
sightings away as training or other military aircraft events.
When
the military does try and explain the lights away as jets involved in
training exercises, it’s obvious that all the recent sightings of these
objects cannot be dismissed merely as military aircraft sightings by
untrained observers. This is especially true in busy air corridors like
Northern Indiana and the skies over the coast of New Jersey. These are
areas were many commercial and private aircraft are constantly in the
air heading to various major airports in those regions. It would have
been beyond irresponsible for the military to fail to announce such
exercises in advance.
Beyond the safety factor, it would also be
ridiculous for military authorities to fail to announce any plans for
exercises occurring late at night given the possibility that such
events might cause a certain level of public panic and end up being
reported as UFOs. Despite these facts, they keep on sending up jets to
chase these objects, claim there are no objects other than military
aircraft in the sky and always seem to fall back on the same old
explanation; one which is becoming increasingly, obviously and
laughingly unrealistic. For more and to view photos of the lights,
visit http://newsletter.UFOguy.com
Bill
Knell is a popular Speaker, Author and Consultant with eclectic
interests. Best known for his Paranormal Research and Seminars, Bill
also excels in the area of personal, business and financial advice and
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