Met the investigator who's been working on the Phoenix lights for 10 years. Has interviewed 300+ viewers.
The Phoenix lights--the real McCoy--were NOT flares nor Apaches. There was evidently government sponsored flares that night--but as confusion.
The huge V shaped craft was humongous and nothing known to be in our arsenel--at least not remotely publically.
i'm a native tempean, didn't see the lights, but, the goldwater range is south of the mountains along interstate 8 i believe, those flares, unless really high up, would not be able to be seen that far away 50+ miles, due to south mountain and the estrella range
It may have been the night of the lights or a little later but Art Bell had a program on them. They gave a phone number for a "UFO Research Center" which I called. I told the "researcher" what I had seen and he screamed at me that "they were not Apaches" and slammed the phone down.
You can believe what you will but I think it was Santa Claus.