Bill Knell: On March 13, 1997, unexplained lights appeared over Phoenix, Arizona. I was in town when the mysterious event took place. While authorities would like you to believe that these were merely military flares, former Arizona Governor Fife Symington says there is much more to the story. Symington now admits that he was among the hundreds of witnesses who saw a huge triangular object in the skies over Phoenix. The former Governor made a number of statements about the Phoenix Lights mystery to Leslie Kean, Special Correspondent to The Prescott Daily Courier. The statements were included in an article by Kean published in the Courier on March 18, 2007. In that article, the former Arizona Governor describes what he saw on March 13, 1997:"It was enormous and inexplicable," he said. "Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too."Symington was referring to a V-shaped object with lights on it seen in the skies over Phoenix ten years ago. Some estimated the lights to be the size of a football field, while others said they could have been a mile long.

He continued to describe his own sighting of the triangular object: "It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical." The former Arizona Governor revealed the object to be a "craft of unknown origin."While Symington hasn't been the only political figure in Arizona to comment on the Phoenix Lights, he stands alone in his admission that they were more than just flares. When asked to comment on the Phoenix Lights in 2000, Senator John McCain said, "That has never been fully explained." He also quickly added, "But I have to tell you that I do not have any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs."Fife Symington says he called the commander of Luke Air Force Base, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and a General with the Arizona National Guard back in 1997 to ask about the lights. None of them were able to provide him with any answers and seemed "perplexed." One of the problems with the sightings were the multitude of explanations available at the time.

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He must have been high or something to see something like that while watching flares dropped by airplane.

it was not flare...just because they said it was flare doesn't make it flare...you know very well how coverup works...

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-828400522844374596

ridiculous...

They were not flares. I have seen f-16's around here drop flares and being from AZ and seeing the lights out here I can say that they are not flares.

I haven't seen flares live but I've seen videos of flares and other countermeasures that planes use. I would say those are definitely flares. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAljVczVFmU that also explains a lot.

People claim that the flares were hovering still and not descending as they should have been. Well objects far away often seem to stay still and these flares were on the other side of the mountain. So I would say that when watching flares from that far away they seem to be staying still. In overall I think there is a quite rational explanation to every question about the ligths so I don't see anything.

If they were flares, they wouldn't have been burning for a long period of time. They would've had a more reddish tint to them, and they most likely wouldn't have been dropped over the city of Phoenix, Arizona. What would be the point? They could've done it over the desert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg6cGCAB2Ck

missed by most is that it was seen over a few days in various areas.

and daylight -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAOlNelMbjo

Well. Finally someone from the government is saying something and none other than a former governer. The question to pose is why didn't he come forward before instead of waiting so long. I suppose we have to be thankful that at least he said something and now there shouldn't be anymore speculation and the truth will hopefully come out. Hopefully we will see what happens next.

Power comes with Responsibility. Since he is now known as FORMER he can now talk freely..

If something descents behind a mountain it doesn't disappear, it just leave your sight.


Not all flares have the same shade. Flares used as countermeasures are very often made of magnesium which emits very pure white light not reddish as you say. Burning magnesium.


I already posted a video that showed that the lights weren't over phoenix but behind the mountains.

As much as I would want this to be proof that UFOs are real, I have to say this is not even close.

this wasn't just one sighting in one area - that's the mistake being made.




The events of that night began with the first reported sighting by someone in Henderson, Nevada at approximately 6:55 p.m. (Pacific time). The next reported sighting was from a former police officer in Paulden, Arizona at approximately 8:15 p.m. (Mountain time).

ReMost people have only heard of the large "V" shaped formation of lights that appearded that night. What most people don't know is that from the comparison of witness testimonies it was discovered that there were multiple events over Arizona that nightports of the "V" shaped pattern of lights entering into the airspace over the Phoenix area began a short time later at around 8:30 p.m.

Check out this http://brumac.8k.com/phoenixlights1.html You can decide what you think about it I find it interesting..