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Have you heard of the Phoenix Lights? If not, it’s probably because it was subject to a mass coverup. Even 19 years later, very little is known about the incident that thousands of Arizona residents witnessed with their own eyes. However, a Hollywood film titled The Phoenix Incident is set to release later this month. Depending on its success, it may bring the Phoenix Lights further into the popular eye. But we won’t count on it. Here is the most convincing evidence we have that it was indeed a visit from extraterrestrial life.
Convincing Facts About the Phoenix Lights:
Were you one of the witnesses? If so, tell us your story.
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The Phoenix Lights
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1. The United States Air Force said the lights were flares dropped by an A-10 Warthog Aircraft.
However, Governor of Arizona Fife Symington III wrote 10 years after the incident in a CNN Special, "In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality. I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona."
"To my astonishment this apparition appeared; this dramatically large, very distinctive leading edge with some enormous lights was traveling through the Arizona sky. As a pilot and former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don't fly in formation."
The night it happened, Governor Symington contacted the military and asked what the lights were. Their response? "No comment."
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2. The Phoenix Lights seem to be of interest to John Podesta.
Podesta--unless you've been living under a rock--was the chief of staff for President Bill Clinton and the chairman of Hillary Clinton's recent presidential campaign.
Whether we want to admit it or not, Wikileaks played a role in this past election. In emails that were leaked, the Phoenix Lights are explicitly mentioned multiple times. One email in particular was sent from Edgar D. Mitchell, an Apollo 14 astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the moon. In 2015, Mitchell wrote to Podesta, "The Phoenix Lights and other sightings have provided ample evidence that Earth has been visited by beings whose intention is purely peace and who have nonviolently hovered over Phoenix and other sites, waiting to be asked to help, when they could most easily have destroyed the city with their uses of consciousness."
In 2007, Podesta publicly urged for the disclosure of UFO phenomena.
Photo: JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP (Getty).
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3. Here is one of the few videos available to the public.
"I've got four of them (the lights). A major sighting here," one man filming says. Sue Watson, one of the witnesses, explains in the video that she was never curious about UFOs until the incident. "This is like a mall flying over my home. Seriously. And then when it flew over, it had these lights in the front ... illuminated, like a yellowish amber."
Photo: YouTube
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4. An estimated 10,000 people saw the UFO.
They all described the same thing: Lights in a V-shape attached to a giant, soundless, hovering mass that blocked out the starry sky. One witness, cement driver Bill Greiner, said, "I'll never be the same. Before this, if anybody had told me they saw a UFO, I would've said, 'Yeah and I believe in the Tooth Fairy.' Now I've got a whole new view and I may be just a dumb truck driver, but I've seen something that don't belong here."
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5. Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood interviewed 700 witnesses.
"The government never interviewed even one," Barwood said. She was ousted from her position soon after.
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6. During the incident, thousands of phone calls were forwarded to Lucas Air Force Base and the National UFO Reporting Center.
As phone lines jammed, concerned locals flooded the streets to take pictures and record video. Interestingly, the media didn't report on it until months later.
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7. Witness Tim Ley was interviewed, among others.
He said it passed 100 feet over his head, and it was about 1,500 feet wide. A younger witness said, "You couldn't even hear the wind. It was so quiet." Ley created a simulation of exactly what he (and thousands of others) claimed to see.
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8. All Lucas Air Force planes were grounded on March 13, 1997.
Dr. Lynne Kitei of Phoenix is one of the thousands of people who saw the UFO. Since that day, she has been researching the incident. "I don't know what these things are, but I know that they are." She uncovered documents dating back to May 1, 1997 which clearly state no planes were in the air that night. Dr. Kitei is the preeminent researcher of the Phoenix Lights, and this is her website.
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