| Perhaps of all UFO sightings in recorded history so | | | | nothing but the row of windows with silhouetted |
| far, the incidents that occurred on March 13, 1997, | | | | beings as all the other lights were turned off at |
| in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. stand out as the most | | | | this point. Soon after the craft was seen by a |
| credible. This is one of the rare cases, possibly the | | | | family travelling on Interstate-10 freeway from |
| only case, where credible footage of the UFO | | | | Tucson to Phoenix. |
| sighting was not only available, but was also | | | | To estimate the size of this object, consider the |
| broadcast on CNN, the world's leading news | | | | following testimony from this family. The |
| network. | | | | witnesses, who were travelling in their car on I- |
| What makes the video footage even more | | | | 10 near Casa Grande said the object was so large |
| credible is that there is footage taken by different | | | | that they could see one "wing tip" of the object |
| people in different parts of town. Most of this | | | | from the left window of their car, and the other |
| footage shows eight orbs over the Phoenix sky. | | | | "wing tip" from the right. They estimated they |
| Seven of these orbs floated together, while an | | | | were driving at approximately 130 kilometers per |
| eighth was alone at a distance (the lone orb can | | | | hour, and they remained under the object for |
| be seen at the middle left of the photo at the | | | | between one and two minutes as it moved in the |
| left). This event was reported on CNN, USA | | | | OPPOSITE direction! They emphasized how large |
| Today and also the Discovery Channel. Many | | | | the object was as it blocked out the sky over |
| people in the world now know about the "Phoenix | | | | their car. They say that the ship was large |
| Lights" sighting. But what many may not know is | | | | enough for a C5-A Galaxy or "Condor" troop |
| that this was only one piece of a much larger | | | | transport plane (the largest conventional aircraft |
| puzzle, because on that night in March 1997, there | | | | known) to land upon it! The craft had definite |
| were several UFO sightings reported over this | | | | structure to it, and a flat-blue black color like that |
| area, including a large boomerang shaped craft, a | | | | of a shotgun barrel. They also reported seeing |
| top-shaped spinning craft, and a mammoth 3.2 | | | | rectangular "panel-like" structures on the underside |
| kilometer wide triangle-shaped craft. There are | | | | of the craft. |
| also several witnesses. | | | | There were also reports of a large circular saucer |
| At around 6:55 P.M. (Pacific Time), a young man in | | | | shaped object that was an estimated 1.6 |
| Henderson, Nevada reportedly witnessed a | | | | kilometers in diameter. This was first witnessed |
| V-shaped object, with six large lights on its leading | | | | by a retired airline pilot, his sons and a friend, and |
| edge. He described the object as coming from | | | | seen coming down Scottsdale Road at about |
| the northwest and described it as being the size | | | | 10:20 P.M. This craft made a turn towards Sky |
| of a "Boeing 747", it generated a sound like a | | | | Harbor where it intersected air traffic before |
| "gushing wind" and as it continued towards the | | | | disappearing from view over South Mountain. The |
| southeast, it soon disappeared over the horizon. | | | | corroborating central Phoenix witness, also a |
| The next reported sighting was from a former | | | | former pilot during the Vietnam War and retired |
| police officer in Paulden, Arizona. He had just left | | | | U.S. Marshal, described how the craft both |
| his home at 8:15 P.M. (Mountain Time), and was | | | | reflected the city lights on its underbelly and |
| driving with his family. He described what he saw | | | | blocked out the stars with its upper half, attesting |
| as "a very strange cluster of distinctly red-orange | | | | to its being a single craft of spectacular |
| lights, which consisted of 4-5 lights in the lead, | | | | "mile-wide" proportions. This witness also claims |
| followed by a single light which appeared to be | | | | that he videotaped the entire episode, but the |
| standing back from the others. The lights in the | | | | videotape mysteriously disappeared in what may |
| lead gave the impression of being in a 'V' | | | | be a real life case of MIB (Men In Black). |
| formation, somewhat like a wedge or boomerang | | | | Bill Greiner, a truck driver who never believed in |
| in shape." Each individual light in the formation | | | | UFOs till that night saw two large top-shaped |
| seemed to the witness to consist of two | | | | spinning objects with a pulsating ring of red-light |
| separate sources of orange light. | | | | around it. Bill said that 3 fighters from LAFB tried |
| Within minutes of these sightings, there were a | | | | to intercept the objects, but they suddenly shot |
| barrage of phone calls coming in to the National | | | | off vertically into the sky, leaving the F-15s far |
| UFO center, the police, local news media and the | | | | below. |
| nearby Luke Air Force Base (LAFB) about similar | | | | An another interesting aspect to the Phoenix |
| sightings from nearby towns. | | | | Lights case is that despite several witnesses who |
| All this pointed to the fact that several objects, all | | | | say at least 6-8 pairs of F-15 fighters from the |
| markedly different in appearance, and most of | | | | nearby LAFB were scrambled to intercept these |
| them almost unbelievably large, passed over | | | | gigantic UFOs, the Air Force denies it. LAFB public |
| Arizona that night. | | | | relations people have attributed the strange lights |
| One group of three witnesses, located just north | | | | in the video to be "flares" dropped by an Air |
| of Phoenix, reported seeing a huge, V- shaped | | | | Force aircraft. However, all experts agree that |
| craft with five lights on its ventral surface, eerily | | | | the characteristics of flares are very different |
| glide over them. The witnesses emphasized how | | | | from what was seen on that night. No flares can |
| gigantic the object was, as it blocked out up to | | | | last for as long as the lights over Phoenix did. |
| 70-90 degrees of the sky. This craft was also | | | | Also, flares emit smoke trails as they drop, and |
| photographed and the picture published in USA | | | | they do not stay at a stationary altitude. This |
| Today. | | | | announcement clearly indicates an attempt to |
| Another group of witnesses reported the largest | | | | block the truth. The LAFB also denies that they |
| craft of all, which was reportedly to be over 3 | | | | received calls that night of strange occurrences |
| kilometers wide. This massive craft is known as | | | | over the Phoenix skies. But telephone records of |
| the "Big Black Triangle". | | | | scores of people clearly indicate otherwise. They |
| This gigantic craft was first seen at close range | | | | called LAFB and reported these sightings. |
| over north Phoenix between 8:30 and 8:45 P.M. | | | | Despite thousands of witnesses, videotape aired |
| where the key witnesses (real estate people who | | | | on CNN and the clear cover-up by authorities, this |
| subdivided the area) estimated its size to be as | | | | case was virtually blocked out from the print |
| much as 3.2 kilometers wide as its wingtip lights | | | | media, until USA Today did a front page article on |
| fell over streets that are 2.8 kilometers apart. Its | | | | this on June 18, 1997. |
| flight path brought it low to the ground (about | | | | What really happened that night? Why is there a |
| 2,000 feet) where it was seen to not only have | | | | cover-up? Why is the media not helping in getting |
| dozens of lights along its leading edges, but also a | | | | to the bottom of this case? |
| row of windows wherein the silhouettes of | | | | One thing is for certain, the Phoenix Lights |
| "people" were observed! At some point further | | | | sightings are humanity's clearest indication, so far, |
| south, other witnesses reported that they saw | | | | that we are not alone. |