CASE #U70SMO · 2 entities · 1 connections

The Phoenix Lights

Thousands of people across an entire state watched a massive, silent V-shaped formation of lights pass overhead in 1997 — and the governor who publicly mocked the sighting later admitted he saw it too.

On March 13, 1997, thousands of witnesses across Arizona reported a massive V-shaped formation of lights moving silently across the night sky, followed by a separate series of stationary lights over the city. The U.S. Air Force attributed the second phenomenon to flares from a training exercise, an explanation many witnesses, including Arizona's own then-governor, found unconvincing.

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Quick facts

→Witnesses across a roughly 300-mile stretch of Arizona reported seeing the same massive, silent, V-shaped formation of lights on the same night.
→A separate set of stationary lights seen over Phoenix later that night was officially attributed by the Air Force to flares dropped during a National Guard training exercise.
→Arizona Governor Fife Symington publicly mocked the incident at a press conference, then years later admitted he had personally witnessed the lights and found them genuinely unexplainable.
→Dr. Lynne Kitei, a Phoenix physician and witness, spent years documenting the event, eventually producing a book and documentary on the case.

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Phoenix Lights (event)

Mass UFO sighting across Arizona on March 13, 1997; the later stationary lights were officially explained as flares, but the earlier V-formation was not.

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Fife Symington (person)

Arizona governor who publicly mocked the Phoenix Lights sighting, then years later admitted he personally witnessed and couldn't explain it.

→ publicly mocked, then later confirmed witnessing → Phoenix Lights◐reported

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