Dr. Lynne Kitei was perfectly happy being a family physician and health educator before she reluctantly came forward to tell the world about her experiences with unexplained phenomena. She and her husband, Frank, also a family physician, had seen strange lights more than two years before the 1997 Phoenix Lights event."As a physician, I went through a lot of years trying to let this sink in. I was resistant to it, too, because I am a scientist," she said.Kitei said she hopes her documentary, The Phoenix Lights, touches people and educates them."Something is out there. I don't know what these things are. I just know that they are," she said.The documentary has sparked renewed debate over what Arizonans saw eight years ago. Was it flares? An airplane formation? Top-secret military craft? UFOs?James McGaha, a scientific and technical consultant for the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Claims of the Paranormal, cringes at the mention of UFOs.McGaha said he has not read Kitei's book and could not comment directly on the documentary, since he has not seen it.But he was happy to comment on the Phoenix Lights.

McGaha, an astronomer and retired Air Force pilot, said people should be skeptical and base their beliefs on fact, not pseudo science."They saw flares and airplanes. That is not the same thing as saying it's an alien spacecraft from another world," the Tucson resident said.McGaha said people want to believe in UFOs."They want to think that aliens are somehow flying around in spacecraft in our atmosphere and they are either coming here to hurt us or to help us. Of course, both of those notions are complete silliness," he said.Paradise Valley resident Terri Mansfield is featured in the documentary. She and a group of hospice volunteers saw something glide across the sky that March night from the patio of a volunteer's home.

View: Full Article | Source: azcentral.com