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Phoenix Lights: Still no answers 26 years after the lights appeared over the Valley
Fox 10 ^ | Mar. 13, 2023 | Fox 10 Phoenix

Posted on 10/18/2024 11:37:08 AM PDT by spirited irish

It has been 26 years since the mysterious Phoenix Lights appeared over the Valley, and while we still don't know what it was, there are plenty of theories about it.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: lights; phoenixlights; ufos
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1 posted on 10/18/2024 11:37:08 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: RoosterRedux

Phoenix Lights ping


2 posted on 10/18/2024 11:37:40 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: spirited irish

I thought a program years ago said it was a bunch young people up on the hill with lights ,LOL


3 posted on 10/18/2024 11:42:25 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: spirited irish

I know someone who was driving on Black Canyon fwy and saw these. Said everyone was slowing down and craning their necks to see this, kind of looking out windows and slightly weaving out of lanes (scary). He claimed they covered a huge part of the sky, he said looked like bigger than a football field and in a triangular formation. He never talked about UFOs before. Seemed to have no interest in that at all which made this seem more credible to me.

But on Wikipedia they claim they know the explanation for the Phoenix Lights. “Operation Snowbird, a pilot training program operated in the winter by the Air National Guard, out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona”.

But then a second guy has another explanation, so who knows?

“Tucson astronomer and retired Air Force pilot James McGaha said he also investigated the two separate sightings and traced them both to A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft flying in formation at high altitude”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights


4 posted on 10/18/2024 11:47:31 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: spirited irish

E.T just wanted to phone home.


5 posted on 10/18/2024 11:48:00 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: butlerweave

There are many people whose interest lies in explaining away phenomenon, especially other worldly phenomenon that does not fit into their naturalistic worldview.


6 posted on 10/18/2024 11:48:30 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: spirited irish

Somehow I believe this is likely related to the nearby air force base. If they said they were investigating it too, I would consider that a possible cover story.


7 posted on 10/18/2024 11:51:10 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Beowulf9

Seculars holding a naturalistic worldview do not want to admit that other-worldly phenomenon exist since if they do, the naturalistic worldview crashes and burns.


8 posted on 10/18/2024 11:52:05 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: spirited irish

I was in Phoenix that week and recall that the chair force said that it was something that they were doing that night. Nothing Burger.


9 posted on 10/18/2024 11:53:55 AM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: spirited irish
He threw himself back in his easy-chair, wrapped in contemplations of his future greatness. The mysterious light appeared more brilliantly than before, dancing, to all appearance, up and down the lane, crossing from side to side, and moving in an orbit as eccentric as comets themselves.

The scientific gentleman was a bachelor. He had no wife to call in and astonish, so he rang the bell for his servant.

‘Pruffle,’ said the scientific gentleman, ‘there is something very extraordinary in the air to-night? Did you see that?’ said the scientific gentleman, pointing out of the window, as the light again became visible.

‘Yes, I did, Sir.’

‘What do you think of it, Pruffle?’

‘Think of it, Sir?’

‘Yes. You have been bred up in this country. What should you say was the cause for those lights, now?’

The scientific gentleman smilingly anticipated Pruffle’s reply that he could assign no cause for them at all. Pruffle meditated.

‘I should say it was thieves, Sir,’ said Pruffle at length.

‘You’re a fool, and may go downstairs,’ said the scientific gentleman.

‘Thank you, Sir,’ said Pruffle. And down he went.

10 posted on 10/18/2024 11:55:33 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: butlerweave

You may be remembering the Marfa lights in Texas, for which the best explanation turned out to be some kind of reflection from auto headlights.

The Phoenix lights were nothing like that.


11 posted on 10/18/2024 12:03:21 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: spirited irish

The best book on this topic—imho:

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Lights-Lynne-D-Kitei/dp/1571743774

She is the local who did the hard work on this.

The dubunkers tried to claim this was local, one day, in a narrow time frame.

They lied.


12 posted on 10/18/2024 12:05:48 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: spirited irish

BS.

2 different incidents.

The only answers lacking are for the incident the government denies (the one which was NOT their intentional flare dropping by rotary winged a/c).

“Phoenix Lights” is a misnomer and it pisses me off every time it’s parroted by the media (gaslighting).


13 posted on 10/18/2024 12:05:54 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Beowulf9

Their first explanation was ‘flares’.

There are three incidents that have convinced me that there’s something weird going on: The Lonnie Zamora case of 1964; the Falcon Lake incident of 1968 in Canada; and the Phoenix lights.

It’s estimated by people who have seriously studied UFOs that maybe 90 per cent of sightings/reports can be identified; but there’s still that 10 per cent.


14 posted on 10/18/2024 12:08:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: spirited irish
I fly my space ship from 40 million light years away, dodging micrometeors, black holes, solar radiation, manage to preserve my life with hydration, nutrition, and cell replacement. I then manage to arrive at my planned destination, decelerate from light speeds, avoid burning up entering your atmosphere, and in the last 2,000 feet I need to turn on lights in unknown wavelengths to see where I'm going?

Nope.

15 posted on 10/18/2024 12:13:29 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Beowulf9
“Tucson astronomer and retired Air Force pilot James McGaha said he also investigated the two separate sightings and traced them both to A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft flying in formation at high altitude”.

Davis-Monthan-based (Tucson) A-10s didn't normally fly formation over Phoenix when I was stationed at DM. They had their own range south of Tucson to fly around and practice over. Those flights wouldn't have been classified and anyone in the know at that time would have readily come out and verified the claim.

16 posted on 10/18/2024 12:16:14 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: spirited irish

It’s really irrelevant what they are/were. What matters is that they have generated millions in revenue from web-clicks, to books, to Coast-to-Coast interviews, to articles, to blogs, to videos. The generation of vast amounts of money by a spiritually vacant culture desperately searching for meaning in a sea of chaos is what matters.


17 posted on 10/18/2024 12:17:36 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: spirited irish

The Appalachian Brown Mountain Lights would like to have a word.


18 posted on 10/18/2024 12:20:34 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: blackdog

The incidents don’t have to be ‘aliens from outer space’ to represent something very strange and worthy of investigation.


19 posted on 10/18/2024 12:21:47 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: IYAS9YAS; Beowulf9

Never mind. My memory is fading. It’s been 30 years since I was there. I completely forgot about Goldwater Range at Luke. I didn’t get around the A-10s much or their missions.


20 posted on 10/18/2024 12:22:00 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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