{"id":1343,"date":"2008-04-23T11:41:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2008\/04\/23\/breaking-nation\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T11:41:06","slug":"breaking-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/breaking-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking national press coverage of new Phoenix Lights incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"YfMhcb\"><span class=\"VrHWId\" id=\"1fd0\">Breaking national press coverage of new Phoenix Lights incident<\/span><span id=\"1fd1\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"Ir5Jyf\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"mSeIbe\">\n<td class=\"rJ01J\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"lgrHv\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"ZceZf\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"Ld3RD\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"gx24Z\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"Bdmgc\">\n<td class=\"rJ01J lgrHv\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"lgrHv\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"ZceZf\" style=\"background-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"Ld3RD\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"gx24Z Ld3RD\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"mSeIbe\">\n<td class=\"rJ01J\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"lgrHv\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"ZceZf\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"Ld3RD\" style=\"background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"gx24Z\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"XoqCub\">\n<div class=\"XoqCub aWL81\">\n<div class=\"XoqCub\">\n<div class=\"zWKgkf\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow: visible;\">\n<div act=\"24\" class=\"SAQJzb\" id=\"1fho\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" class=\"eChx3e mbYmMb mUOvze\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"XoqCub\">\n<div class=\"XoqCub\">\n<div class=\"CNf1Cd InqsWb\">\n<div class=\"R7iiN c1norb\">\n<div class=\"R7iiN vHYYR\" style=\"margin-left: 4px;\">\n<div class=\"wWwc8d\" style=\"margin: -10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"diLZtc\">\n<div class=\"XoqCub\">\n<div id=\"1fdi\">\n<div class=\"HprMsc\">\n<div class=\"YrSjGe\">\n<div class=\"ObUWHc qNeRme ckChnd\">\n<table class=\"BwDhwd\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"zyVlgb XZlFIc\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"i8p5Ld\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"i8p5Ld\">\n<div class=\"JbJ6Ye\">\n<table id=\"1fdf\" class=\"gQ8wIf\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cTzXV LtBCcf t9K9Me\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"cTzXV t9K9Me\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"t9K9Me\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"wtnCQd tP6gIf t9K9Me\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" class=\"eChx3e S1nudd\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArwC7c ckChnd\" id=\"1fhy\">One person claims he hoaxed the Lights:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news\/local\/stories\/Phoenix_local_news_042108_new-lights-sightings.895be60f.html\">http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news\/local\/stories\/Phoenix_local_news_042108_new-lights-sightings.895be60f.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news\/homepagetopstory\/stories\/Phoenix_local_news_042108_new-lights-sightings.895be60f.html\">http:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news<wbr><\/wbr>\/homepagetopstory\/stories<wbr><\/wbr>\/Phoenix_local_news_042108_new<wbr><\/wbr>-lights-sightings.895be60f<wbr><\/wbr>.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ktar.com\/?nid=6&amp;sid=814826\">http:\/\/ktar.com\/?nid=6&amp;sid<wbr><\/wbr>=814826<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktar.com\/index.php?nid=388&amp;sid=814826\">http:\/\/www.ktar.com\/index.php<wbr><\/wbr>?nid=388&amp;sid=814826<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 20px;\">Mystery lights reported over Phoenix<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">April 22, 2008<br \/><\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media.bonnint.net\/az\/7\/789\/78975.jpg?filter=ksl\/move_headline\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><br \/>\nCould the strange lights over Phoenix last night have been sky lanterns?<\/p>\n<p>Sky lanterns are big balloon-looking things that have a flame at the<br \/>\nbottom and slowly rise like a helium balloon. people use them for<br \/>\ncelebrations. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.ktar.com\/?nid=237&amp;sid=815049\"><strong><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click here for photos of the lights over Phoenix<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s web site says they last for up to 20 minutes, rise about a mile high and can travel for miles.\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ReMj-EHGGAU\"><strong><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click here to see if you think the lights were sky lanterns.<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>People are looking for an explanation for mysterious red lights<br \/>\nthat appeared in the north Phoenix sky Monday night, reminiscent of a<br \/>\nsimilar event 11 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>Dozens of listeners called News\/Talk 92-3 KTAR just after 8 p.m. reporting they were watching the four mystery lights.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From my position, it looked like they were just hanging, not<br \/>\nmoving at all,&quot; said one man, who called 92-3&#8217;s &#8220;Gaydos After Dark.&quot;<br \/>\nHe said he &#8220;absolutely&quot; saw something. <\/p>\n<p>A woman caller said, &#8220;It looked like four red tower lights,<br \/>\nbut it was pretty high up in the air. I called my husband and he said,<br \/>\n`Get home, what&#8217;s wrong with you?&#8217;&quot; <\/p>\n<p>A man in north Phoenix told CBS-5: &#8220;They were about 3,000<br \/>\nfeet high, approximately. They looked as though they were kind of<br \/>\nhovering or floating from west to east, very slowly. They were up there<br \/>\nfor 15 or 20 minutes.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Those who saw them said the lights were visible about 13 minutes before moving off to the east.\n<\/p>\n<p>Deer Valley Airport, which was the closest air field to the<br \/>\nlights, had no explanation for them. Neither did Phoenix Sky Harbor<br \/>\nInternational Airport or Luke Air Force Base, which said it had no jets<br \/>\nflying at the time. <\/p>\n<p>Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation<br \/>\nAdministration, said, &#8220;A lot of people were reporting seeing some<br \/>\nstrange lights in the sky around Phoenix last night. Air traffic<br \/>\ncontrollers at the control tower at Sky Harbor saw them. But, we have<br \/>\nno idea what they were.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Gregor added, tongue-in-cheek, &#8220;It could be aliens coming<br \/>\ndown to save us from ourselves, you never know. The only thing I do<br \/>\nknow is if they were coming down, they weren&#8217;t talking to air traffic<br \/>\ncontrollers.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>On March 13, 1997, thousands of people reported seeing a<br \/>\nv-shaped formation of lights over north Phoenix. They lasted about<br \/>\nthree hours. Some described them as forming a carpenter&#8217;s square. <\/p>\n<p>Among those who saw the lights in 1997 was former Gov. Fife<br \/>\nSymington, who initially played down the episode. However, he said last<br \/>\nyear that he believes the lights came from &#8220;crafts of unknown origin&quot;<br \/>\nand, &#8220;It remains a great mystery.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kvoa.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=8207301&amp;nav=HMO6\">http:\/\/www.kvoa.com\/Global<wbr><\/wbr>\/story.asp?S=8207301&amp;nav=HMO6<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kvoa.com\/global\/story.asp?s=8207301&amp;ClientType=Printable\">http:\/\/www.kvoa.com\/global<wbr><\/wbr>\/story.asp?s=8207301&amp;ClientType<wbr><\/wbr>=Printable<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mysterious lights over north Phoenix<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Associated Press &#8211; April 22, 2008 8:54 AM ET <\/em><br \/>PHOENIX<br \/>\n(AP) &#8211; Phoenix police and media outlets got flooded with calls last<br \/>\nnight after people spotted four or five red colored lights hovering in<br \/>\nthe sky over north Phoenix.<br \/>Callers said the lights appeared at one<br \/>\npoint in a straight line, and also formed a square and then a triangle.<br \/>\nThey were visible for about 15 minutes around 8 p.m. before heading to<br \/>\nthe east and disappearing.<br \/>Officials at Deer Valley Airport in north<br \/>\nPhoenix and air traffic controllers at Sky Harbor International east of<br \/>\ndowntown Phoenix were among those who saw the lights. But they couldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nexplain them, and the Air Force says the lights weren&#8217;t part of any Air<br \/>\nForce activities.<br \/>The incident was reminiscent of 1 that occurred on<br \/>\nthe night of March 13th, 1997. That night thousands of people reported<br \/>\nseeing a mile-wide, v-shaped formation of lights over the Phoenix area.<\/p>\n<p>Information from: The Arizona Republic, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.azcentral.com<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quantcast.com\/p-5ajcXssjoTyD2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Quantcast\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-5ajcXssjoTyD2.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kold.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=8207784&amp;nav=14RT\">http:\/\/www.kold.com\/Global<wbr><\/wbr>\/story.asp?S=8207784&amp;nav=14RT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kold.com\/global\/story.asp?s=8207784&amp;ClientType=Printable\">http:\/\/www.kold.com\/global<wbr><\/wbr>\/story.asp?s=8207784&amp;ClientType<wbr><\/wbr>=Printable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystery Lights Seen Over Phoenix<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9px;\">Posted:<br \/>\nApril 22, 2008 09:24 AM CDT<\/span><\/span> \n<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" align=\"left\" name=\"D20\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"middle\" colspan=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/kold.images.worldnow.com\/images\/8207784_BG1.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Posted by: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:sboe@kold.com\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Stefanie Boe,<\/span><\/u><\/a> KOLD News 13 This Morning Senior Producer<br \/>It&#8217;s<br \/>\nhappened again in Phoenix&#8211;mystery lights over the city. Monday night,<br \/>\npolice and local media outlets received hundreds of calls after people<br \/>\nspotted four or five red colored lights in the sky.<br \/>Callers said the<br \/>\nlights were over north Phoenix and appeared at one point in a straight<br \/>\nline, and also formed a square and then a triangle. <br \/>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.azcentral.com<\/span><\/u><\/a> the lights were visible for about 15 minutes around 8 p.m. before heading to the east and disappearing. <br \/>No one seems to have an explanation for the lights. The Air Force says they were not part of any Air Force activities.<br \/>Back<br \/>\nin March of 1997 thousands of people saw lights over the Phoenix-area.<br \/>\nIn that instance they were white and shaped like a &quot;v&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/maxwrite\/diarypage.php?did=7110\">http:\/\/www.opednews.com<wbr><\/wbr>\/maxwrite\/diarypage.php?did<wbr><\/wbr>=7110<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"68%\" valign=\"top\"><strong><span face=\"Verdana\">April 22, 2008 at 10:56:47&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;color: #000080;\">UFO Alert: The Lights and Military Jets Are Back Over Phoenix<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Diary Entry by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/author\/author13229.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bill Knell<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"6%\" valign=\"top\">\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"6%\" valign=\"top\">\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\" valign=\"top\">\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 6px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Less than a week after<br \/>\nstrange lights appeared in the skies over Northern Indiana and off the<br \/>\nJersey Coast, lights have returned to the skies over Phoenix. ::::::::<br \/>Less<br \/>\nthan a week after strange lights appeared in the skies over Northern<br \/>\nIndiana and off the Jersey Coast, lights have returned to the skies<br \/>\nover Phoenix. The lights were seen on Monday might (April 21, 2008) and<br \/>\nare similar to the infamous display of bright objects in the night sky<br \/>\nseen in March of 1997 over Phoenix, Arizona. Originally dubbed \u2018The<br \/>\nPhoenix Lights\u2019 after they first appeared ten years ago, the lights<br \/>\nhave made several appearances since that time.<br \/>According to<br \/>\nwitnesses (which included a Reporter for the Arizona Republic<br \/>\nnewspaper), the Monday night light display seen over Deer Valley and<br \/>\nother locations featured red lights. The bright objects morphed into<br \/>\nvarious shapes and sizes, eventually forming a triangular and square<br \/>\nshape. At least three U.S. Military jets chased the lights as they<br \/>\nmoved west to east in the sky. Officials from Deer Valley Airport<br \/>\nofficials said that none of their aircraft were responsible for the<br \/>\nlights.<br \/>Comparable events took place over the skies of Stephenville<br \/>\nand Dublin, Texas, back in January and have become known as \u2018The<br \/>\nStephenville Lights\u2019. According to multiple witnesses, U.S. Military<br \/>\njets chased at least one large object during that occurrence. The jets<br \/>\nmay have continued to show up in Erath County, Texas, along with<br \/>\nmilitary helicopters, to investigate the reappearance of lights and<br \/>\nother types of UFOs during the day and night since that time. Military<br \/>\naircraft have also buzzed the home of one or more UFO witnesses living<br \/>\nin that area.<br \/>Lights similar to those seen over Phoenix also<br \/>\nappeared on Tuesday and Wednesday (April 14-15, 2008) over the towns of<br \/>\nKokomo and Logansport in Northern Indiana. Those lights were<br \/>\naccompanied by loud sounds, an odd metallic odor in the air, the<br \/>\nappearance of military aircraft and debris falling from the sky.<br \/>\nEarlier in the evening on Wednesday night (April 15, 2008), a fishing<br \/>\nboat captain reported seeing a huge object split into smaller lights<br \/>\noff the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey and said that he felt a<br \/>\nbrief tremor after that event.<br \/>In the case of the original Phoenix<br \/>\nLights, the Stephenville Lights, the lights in Northern Indiana and<br \/>\nthose seen off the Jersey Coast, the U.S. Armed Forces claimed that<br \/>\nthey were just military exercises mistakenly reported as UFO sightings.<br \/>\nHowever, a spokesperson for Luke Air Force Base said that they had no<br \/>\naircraft in the sky and that the lights seen over Phoenix on Monday<br \/>\nnight were not a part of any Air Force activities.<br \/>While it\u2019s<br \/>\ndoubtful that any known military or civilian aircraft were responsible<br \/>\nfor the appearance of the latest lights over Phoenix and Luke AFB has<br \/>\nadmitted as much, witnesses say that military jets were present during<br \/>\nthe event and chased the lights across the night sky. That is in direct<br \/>\nconflict with the Luke AFB spokesperson\u2019s claim that none of their jets<br \/>\nwere in the sky on Monday night. However, it\u2019s a nice change to find<br \/>\nthe military not immediately trying to explain any and all UFO<br \/>\nsightings away as training or other military aircraft events.<br \/>When<br \/>\nthe military does try and explain the lights away as jets involved in<br \/>\ntraining exercises, it\u2019s obvious that all the recent sightings of these<br \/>\nobjects cannot be dismissed merely as military aircraft sightings by<br \/>\nuntrained observers. This is especially true in busy air corridors like<br \/>\nNorthern Indiana and the skies over the coast of New Jersey. These are<br \/>\nareas were many commercial and private aircraft are constantly in the<br \/>\nair heading to various major airports in those regions. It would have<br \/>\nbeen beyond irresponsible for the military to fail to announce such<br \/>\nexercises in advance.<br \/>Beyond the safety factor, it would also be<br \/>\nridiculous for military authorities to fail to announce any plans for<br \/>\nexercises occurring late at night given the possibility that such<br \/>\nevents might cause a certain level of public panic and end up being<br \/>\nreported as UFOs. Despite these facts, they keep on sending up jets to<br \/>\nchase these objects, claim there are no objects other than military<br \/>\naircraft in the sky and always seem to fall back on the same old<br \/>\nexplanation; one which is becoming increasingly, obviously and<br \/>\nlaughingly unrealistic. For more and to view photos of the lights,<br \/>\nvisit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.ufoguy.com\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/newsletter.UFOguy.com<\/span><\/u><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Bill<br \/>\nKnell is a popular Speaker, Author and Consultant with eclectic<br \/>\ninterests. Best known for his Paranormal Research and Seminars, Bill<br \/>\nalso excels in the area of personal, business and financial advice and<br \/>\nmanagement. Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Omni, the L.A. Times,<br \/>\nToronto Star and NY Times; seen on CNN, NBC Nightly News, Fox<br \/>\nTelevision and many Cable Networks; heard on Mancow, Bob and Tom and<br \/>\nHoward Stern; consultant to films like Independence Day, Men in Black,<br \/>\nthe Fifth Element and World of the Worlds<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}