I've been around a while, have seen my share of episodes of mass hysteria. The mid '70's was the last I paid any serious attention to any of it, though. I personally know of a man who claimed to have shot BigFoot point blank with a sawed-off. He lived, as the crow flies, only a couple of miles away from me. In all the years that I lived in that particular hollow, I never saw or heard or smelled anything remotely like BigFoot.
And I've never seen anything like the flying saucer crowd claims to see, and I love looking at the night sky. Always have.
That said, let's get the thread back on track. Let's take a look at the "credibility" of the source:
Roger Marsh is a UFO writer, author, playwright and independent filmmaker. He is director of communications for both the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and ufologist Stan Gordon. As Tremont Avenue Productions, he produces InCahoots.TV, stories of passion, resource and mystery.
Evidently you also have not clue one about
“mass hysteria!”
LOL.
Here’s a combination video of a Fox TV News and MSNBC TV News program...
Phoenix lights UFO report on US news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NRA5iA_xrw
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So far, I’ve taken newspaper accounts and quotes, a couple of CNN interviews, Fox News Interviews, MSNBC TV News interviews...
That should be a pretty good “spread” of news media information about the event. And they’ve interviewed the Governor of the state, a doctor who happened to witness it, also referencing other witnesses (in the news accounts) as lawyers, air traffic controller, law enforcement officers, plus other citizens... (one report was saying that up to around 10,000 people saw it in the state...).
I would say that there was some kind of a very significant event there...
You said — “And I’ve never seen anything like the flying saucer crowd claims to see, and I love looking at the night sky.”
And neither have I seen anything like that, at any time of my life. And I haven’t been abducted by aliens either.
But, I don’t discount that thousands of people in the state of Arizona did see something that was an object that they all thought was completely out of the normal experience of ordinary things that are in the sky — plus the former Governor of that state saying —
“I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don’t know why people would ridicule it.”
And — (CNN November 9, 2007) — In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality. I witnessed a massive delta-shaped, craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak ... this dramatically large, very distinctive leading edge with some enormous lights was traveling through the Arizona sky. As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I’d ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation. —Fife Symington III
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That is not very easily dismissed as nothing but mass hysteria, or people out late at the bar drinking or whatever... LOL...