Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

More clues revealed on 1997 Phoenix lights UFO
americanchronicle ^ | March 13, 2010 | Steve Hammons

Posted on 03/14/2010 12:29:56 PM PDT by JoeProBono

The mystery of the 1997 "Phoenix lights" incident seems to continue. TV shows, films, research articles and other explorations of the case still fascinate us – and still raise many questions.

As the 13th anniversary of the strange incident approaches on Saturday, March 13, 2010, it does seem an appropriate time to take a new look at clues about this case.

The theory that the Phoenix lights were a U.S. psychological operation of some kind gained new attention late last month when experienced researcher and writer Randall Fitzgerald published a thought-provoking article online titled "Were the 1997 Arizona Lights a psychological warfare experiment?"

This unique hypothesis was based on Fitzgerald's two-month fulltime investigation and interviews with more than 50 witnesses in 1997 funded by Reader´s Digest magazine.

CONFUSING PERCEPTIONS

Fitzgerald reviewed points that most people are generally aware of. The lights were first seen in southern Nevada in the early evening and then mid-evening across the state line in west-central Arizona, moving in generally a south-southeast direction.

The lights were large and bright. They did not resemble normal aircraft lights to many observers. Some witnesses, but not all, saw five lights in a V-shaped formation.

Steadily making their way south-southeast, the lights entered the metropolitan Phoenix area in mid-evening and crossed the area diagonally, entering from the northwest and exiting the metro area on the southeast. The lights reportedly continued all the way to Tucson, Sierra Vista and possibly the Mexican border.

During this general time frame, out-of-state Air National Guard units training at Luke Air Force base on the western edge of metro Phoenix dropped flares in an area of the Barry M. Goldwater Range. The site of the flare drop was reportedly in an unusually far north part of the range and within sight of metro Phoenix.

Many factors in the case led to much speculation then, and over the years.

Did people see military flares from the training exercise? Was there something else that was not over the Goldwater Range but was directly over the city and surrounding communities (as well as other parts of Arizona and Nevada)?

Were both happening that night? And, if so, was this a coincidence?

It seems clear that something apart from the flares did fly directly over Phoenix. Were there five or more individual objects or aircraft? Or, was there one huge object with five or more bright lights on it?........


TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: arizona; callingartbell; jpb; masshysteria; mystery; nevada; phoenix; phoenixlights; ufo
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-57 last
To: Quix

Occam’s Razor, friend. The chances are overwhelmingly likely that this is a military project, and nothing to do with little green men from outer space.


41 posted on 03/14/2010 7:14:09 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: ccmay

Actually,

At this point Ocam’s razor works against your perspective.

There’s far too much quality testimony on the other side of things . . . from high ranking military men . . . in addition to high ranking engineers, pilots etc.


42 posted on 03/14/2010 7:20:04 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

. . .

A CURIOUS . . . UNFUN . . . BUNCH OF ASSERTIONS . . .

http://www.metatech.org/2010-2011/phil_schneider_video_death_government_world_trade_center_explosives.html


43 posted on 03/14/2010 9:04:17 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Quix

Phil Schneider

The Most Courageous Man of Modern Times


44 posted on 03/14/2010 9:07:09 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

a MARTYR for the truth, imho.

Thx.


45 posted on 03/14/2010 9:22:37 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Quix

;-


46 posted on 03/14/2010 9:24:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: Quix

OK


47 posted on 03/14/2010 9:32:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

YOU are certainly pretty good alright OK!


48 posted on 03/14/2010 9:47:34 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

Comment #49 Removed by Moderator

To: Arthur Wildfire! March; Quix

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious, X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers
of dust that may have been the result of a head-on collision between two asteroids.


50 posted on 03/15/2010 1:26:56 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (To anger a Conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a Liberal, tell him the truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Las Vegas Dave

Still a fascinating image.

thx.


51 posted on 03/15/2010 8:04:25 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: F15Eagle

I know I’m a little late on this post, but if you believe in the Bible, then you already believe in “alien” life, as angels are alien to us. Demons too.

The “aliens” in question here are fallen angels, Nephilim, and demons. They aren’t from Earth. They are from another dimension, a spiritual dimension, i.e. the heavens.

The “craft” seen operate in ways that nothing material acts. Disappearing, changing shape, glowing bizarre colors, emanating unusual energies, ‘dancing’ in the sky.


52 posted on 03/17/2010 6:34:01 AM PDT by Outership (Looking for a line by line Book of Revelation Bible study? http://tiny.cc/rPSQc)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

"Embracing change is never easy."

53 posted on 03/17/2010 6:42:22 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono


This looks just like what I saw on 2/24/2009 at 7:00 PM. I reported it to MUFON that nite. Here is the report I made:

"I was driving from Stephenville with my daughter, on US 377 going towards Dublin when we both saw it at the same time. Directly ahead and a little to our left we saw a line of lights, evenly spaced, but not very bright, heading North. What struck us most was the size of it. There are very few planes flying in our rural area, but this would have been vastly larger than even a commercial plane & much, much lower. It looked to be directly over Dublin and the lights were on for several seconds, then went off, on once more for several seconds, then off again. We never saw them afterwards, and in what daylight there was left we were unable to see the body of any aircraft, only the huge string of lights, but from the first pulse to the second one it was apparent that whatever it is was making a slow, stationary turn towards the West." end of report

When we 1st saw this thing, we both exclaimed something like "Oh, my God, what is THAT!" So it was evident we both were seeing the same thing at the same time. What is striking to me about the photo here is that what I saw was even "half lighted"as this appears to be. The right side of the object had lights but the left did not. There was still plenty of daylight left, but when the lights were on and when they went off, there was NO OBJECT VISIBLE for them to be attached to!

On my report I said it looked to be rotating to the West, but it should say East, as it appeared to be turning towards us. Then it was just gone. The light shown to the far left on the picture above was not visible to us on our siting.
54 posted on 03/21/2010 11:54:18 AM PDT by texas_mrs
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: texas_mrs; Quix

;-{)


55 posted on 03/21/2010 12:05:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: texas_mrs; Quix

;-{)


56 posted on 03/21/2010 12:05:17 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

THX.

Will check it out.

LUB


57 posted on 03/21/2010 1:34:44 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-57 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson