Thanks for your substantive responses.
BTW, I ran the Verde river with a college friend about 1968. Loved it. Dad et al live in Cottonwood.
I’ve talked at length with some serious researchers into the “Phoenix lights.”
Sorry, but your explanation may fit a part of the event but not the main event.
The craft larger than a mile long traveled from at least up around Kingman down to Tucson . . . rather slowly.
The airline pilot flying his private plane ABOVE and a bit to the side of the large UFO said he could have landed HIS AIRLINER ON TOP OF THE UFO.
The MD, I think on South mountain filming it in color 35mm movie film supported the size estimates.
etc. etc.
I would not argue that we have our fleet of such as my relative asserted(s).
More than 10,000 witnesses saw the large craft. THEY knew it was not flares etc.
I hadn’t heard any of that stuff. All the sightings I heard about at the time were in Clearview Hills to what at the time was called Squaw Peak, West of Paradise Valley. At the time, it was described as being “V” shaped, bigger than a bomber, and you could see the aircraft running lights.
If that was the case, you couldn’t have seen much of anything from South Mountain.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/AZ%20republic%20phoenix%20lights.jpg
The media really turned vicious against those who reported it. While the local TV and Arizona Republic were dismissive, the Phoenix New Times really railed at them.
