March 13, 1997
A series of sightings took place over Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. Tens of thousand of people reported boomerang shaped objects the size of several football fields, which blocked out the stars over major cities. The largest sighting took place over our own capital, as such the event came to be known as "The Phoenix Lights."
Reports soon came down that the mysterious lights were, "strange lights over Phoenix were explained as an anti-aircraft experiment in a military operating area over 50 miles from Phoenix. This experiment involved flares descending on parachutes." (1) This explanation is almost laughable to anyone willing to look at the facts. The explanation simply did not match the large scale reports of an object, "blocking out the stars." Among the thousands of witnesses, "two witnesses we interviewed were demolition experts for the military and they stated that what they saw were not flares." (1)
At the time the possible extraterrestrial origins of the object were openly mocked by the local government, during a disgusting press conference with then Governor Fife Symington. He lampooned the whole incident, touted the party line about "flares," and the matter was publicly dropped.
Now it is 10 years later, and Fife Symington is telling a different story. In an interview with the "Daily Courier" Mr. Symington comes clean as having seen the object himself. "It was enormous and inexplicable," he said in an exclusive interview from Phoenix. "Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too." (2) As for the official flare theory Symington had this to say, ""It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical," he says. "It had a geometric outline, a constant shape." (2)
Below is a link to the full story, where Symington also relates the difficulty he had in exploring a full investigation.
We see here the difficulty that even a governor has in getting around both the government's stonewalling, and the public desire to not believe when investigating the UFO phenomeon. This is what we in the UFO-logy community battle every day. But every day more brave creditable individuals are coming forth, and the skeptics will not be able to keep their head's buried in the sand forever.
Join us next time, when we will take a closer look at the activities of these possible outer space visitors (which I have absolutely no personal relation to what so ever) as The Mobius Strip looks at
Crop Circles!
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http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseSubarticle.asp?ID=1057(2)
http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=43304 
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