#20 - The Phoenix Lights of 1997

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Phoenix Arizona. Aptly named for its comfortable temperatures.

To quote Peggy Hill, "This city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance."

But in March of 1997, in this unparalleled city of arrogance, as the Hale-Bopp Comet was passing by our planet on its way toward the sun, another set of spectacular lights lit up the skies over Phoenix. Some eyewitnesses claim it was a huge V-Shaped craft that blocked out the stars above as it passed overhead.

The military says these lights were just flares that were launched by aircraft during a night time training exercise. But to many who spotted the lights firsthand, this explanation is nothing but a pathetic attempt to dismiss their accounts.

26 years on, the mystery still persists. What was it that floated in the skies over Arizona on that fateful night?

SOURCES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-xJATBctIA

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/20-years-later-what-were-the-phoenix-lights/75-422251905

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/kurt-russell-phoenix-lights-ufo-1201842807/

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/events/2017/02/17/phoenix-lights-ufo-sighting-ugo-congress-scottsdale/98062066/

https://pagesix.com/2017/06/21/kurt-russell-reveals-detailed-encounter-with-ufo/

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-phoenix-lights-are-no-mystery-6661825

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/03/13/phoenix-lights-25-years-later/

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_Lights

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/events/2017/02/17/phoenix-lights-ufo-sighting-ugo-congress-scottsdale/98062066/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Fh0g5wJ7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYL9-etz85A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r01RXiIZZzY

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12341141/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-chilling-UFO-encounter-just-12-believer-Im-relieved-Congress-finally-searching-truth.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20160219215405/http://brumac.8k.com/phoenixlights1.html

Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack – Season 10, Episode 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5af1vNy30