National UFO Reporting Center Details
(1)
Occurred : 3/13/1997
Reported: 4/23/2005 12:21:11 PM 12:21
Posted: 5/11/2005
Location: Douglas, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:30'+
Triangle Craft seen over Phoenix Az was seen first over Douglas Az flying North.
While watching stars at night, broad wing Triangle passed overhead blocking out all stars. moving very slow,
inch by inch. I thought it was military or Border Patrol..Wing angle was more wide than other drawings I've
seen..
Years later read report of Phoenix Triangle. I saw same craft, same date, No lights, no sound, no special
feeling about it..
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS))
Thanks for speedy reply.. the date was most likely Mar/13/1997..As I wrote.
I got bored watching the thing covering up my stars.. I went to bed and forgot about it.. until years latter I
happened upon your site and read about the Phoenix sighting.. I saw it over Douglas.. Big! covered whole of
my sky. Low altitude. I was next to Radio tower, 70'? , I goofed. missed a chance to say hello to a space
craft.. It had to know that I was below.!?
((END))
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD))
(2)
Occurred : 3/13/1997 (Entered as : 03/13/97)
Reported: 4/30/2003 2:21:11 PM 14:21
Posted: 5/2/2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Other
Duration:couple minutes
The phoenix lights
it was sometime in the evening after dark, my daughter and i were leaving a movie theater on ray road driving
west toward our home also on ray road. As we are driving i notice lights in the sky, i yell to my daughter "look
look in the sky!" she leans forward and looks up "I see it what is that?" "its not a plane its hovering looks like a
boomerang" we came to a stop to get a better look and you could see white lights in the shave of a v and you
could just barely see the outline of the thing as it was dark. It was huge and it looked close, hard to say how
close it really was as we were inside our car. We joked around about it being her first UFO sighting not sure
what we had seen and then that night when we turned on the news it was all over the place! everyone had
seen it!
(3)
Occurred : 3/13/1997 18:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 18:00)
Reported: 12/25/2005 5:16:08 PM 17:16
Posted: 2/14/2006
Location: Prescott, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:3 mins. approx.
These were individual craft flying in a distinct formation-- absolutely not flares.
I'm writing regarding the well documented Phoenix Lights. I saw them from the base of Granite Mountain in
Prescott, AZ., which is approximately 100 miles North of Phoenix. It was still light when I saw them traveling in
a Southerly direction. The most important point I want to make is that they were absolutely not flares, as some
would later claim. I come from a family of pilots and have my flight ratings as well. These craft seemed to be
moving faster than most planes I have observed. They were traveling in a very symetrical formation-- like an
elongated triangle, with probably three lights on either side of a single light at the point. They simply looked
like round white lights to me. They seemed more luminescent than typical jets; made no sound; left no
contrails; contained no other plane-like lights; and again, seemed to be traveling very fast. I have wondered if
they might be some new secret military craft, but couldn't understand why they would fly over a highly
populated area like Phoenix-- wouldn't make sense. This would also have placed them on Sky Harbor's
(Phoenix's international airport's) radar as well. Anyway, I don't know what they were, but they sure as hell
weren't flares. I will always consider them as having been individual craft unlike anything I had previously
seen. I wish so much I would have had a video camera. I know others reported seeing these lights at least as
far North as I did. I just hope that my report will lend support to the idea that they were not flares. That was
one of the most obsured conclusions I have heard. Hope this can be of some help to you.
(4)
Occurred : 3/13/1997 18:40 (Entered as : 03/13/97 18:40)
Reported: 3/11/2006 11:45:46 PM 23:45
Posted: 5/15/2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Chevron
Duration:15 min
A huge triangular object slowly drifting over Phoenix, AZ, 5 lights traveling probably less than 30 mph.
We were heading S. on 51st Ave from Luby's (approx. Indian School Rd.) having supper celebrating the wife's
birthday. Saw the Lights over S. Mtn. and as we were camped out at the wife's brothers place between
Southern and Baseline, we followed the lights till we got home. They slowly headed S. over the mountain and
out of sight. As i remember, there were 5 lights in a triangular patern.
(5)
Occurred : 3/13/1997 19:00 (Entered as : 3/17/97 19:00)
Reported: 2/24/2006 5:06:08 PM 17:06
Posted: 3/11/2006
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:30 min
I hope it's ours ! If not, it's definately 'someone else's'... (and FOR SURE, it's not of human origin) !
I just found this web site and decided to enter what I KNOW I SAW the evening of 3/17/97 (like so many
others did that night in the Phoenix sky). I was gardening in the back yard of my Scottsdale home. I noticed 8
or 9 soft glowing amber lights in the sky approaching me from the south in a V shaped (flying wing) formation.
The 'flying wing object' gradually flew 'directly over' my home (in the course of about 5 minutes) at a perceived
altitude of about 500 feet (about the same height of near-by Thompson Peak Mt. of the McDowell Mountains)
at a speed 'I thought to be' about 40 MPH. The object was like a dark shadow (rather than a solid aircraft) and
emminated a deep, soft, quiet, vibrating tone (like an electric turbine generator). I was stunned (in awe) and
just watched it pass (as it veered slightly WNW). From that evening until now, ALL reports made by ALL
witnesses have been discounted / unexplained by ALL governmental entities... *even though Sky Harbor air
traffic control reported its unexplained existence in the Phoenix metro area that evening. I am well skilled in
matters of aviation AND not convinced (either way) in matters of extra-terastrial 'whatever', BUT what I saw
was not 'unidentified'... *It was awesome and real... and it WAS NOT (I know for sure) 'of ANY earthling's
doing'. ** A difficult thing to assess (from one who STILL doubts life exists anywhere else in our universe...
close enough to travel here at the speed of light in a time frame of a million years or more). Of mention... I
have had two other similar experiences (that are not of human cause). I assure you. They were 'real' too.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. We have amended the date
above to March 13, 1997, the night of the "Phoenix Lights" events. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 19:00 (Entered as : 19:00)
Reported: 8/8/2006 4:59:21 PM 16:59
Posted: 10/30/2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:
I saw both of these events in Phoenix while my family and I were driving home.
The first event was the triangular formation. I saw no shape or surface to it as the angle we observed it from it
was lower on the horizon. If flew over the Carefree area without noise.
I work in the airline industry and have spent many nights on the ramp. I know airplane landing light formations
for just about every type of aircraft. This was no aircraft.
The second event were flares dropped over the Gila mountains. They acted exactly like flaires and it is my
opinion that they were dropped to confuse everyone from the first event. I lived in Phoenix for 10 plus years
and never were flares dropped from that position at night.
Sky Harbor is not far away and never once were flares dropped at night. It would freak the passengers out if
they saw something like that while landing. Even the Marines in Yuma draw attention if they practice at night.
Flying in the Southwest between California and Arizona, you can easily see night activity from far away.
Just as soon keep my name to myself. Just found your site and wanted to share what I know.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We agree with
his assessment about the flares. NUFORC has long argued that the flares, which occurred at approximately
22:00 hrs., occurred after the genuine UFO event had ended, which occurred at approximately 21:45 hrs..
PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 19:45 (Entered as : 03/13/97 19:45)
Reported: 9/2/1999 08:24
Posted: 9/12/1999
Location: Gila Bend (20 miles east of, on I-8), AZ
Shape: Light
Duration:20 mins
2 large, bright orange/pinkish lights seen south of I-8 over the desert. Went from 2 to 3 to 4 lights. Small bright
objects quickly left and returned to the larger lights. These smaller lights lit up the background clouds. Wife,
in-laws, nephew and son witnessed with me.
20 miles east of Gila Bend, AZ on I-8 about 50 miles SW of Phoenix. I noticed two bright lights shining over
the desert south of the freeway. At first I thought they were to very tall light poles. 2 then 3 then 4 lights
appeared. The lights went out and 3 more appeared lower in the sky immediatedly. It seemed a set of lights
went off and then the bottom set turned on. Five indiviuals in my car witnessed these lights for approx. 20
mins from I-8 interstate. I could still see the lights as we entered Gila Bend's business district. The lights
always remained stationary. Smaller lights seemed to split off from the right edge of the rightmost light, do a
very quick arc and return. The light from the small ones lit up the background clouds. No sound was heard.
We tried to take a photo but it didn't turn out. This was the same night as the famous "Phoenix Lights" were
seen.
((NUFORC NOTE: Location of these lights may be important to understanding the nature of the events that
took place later in the eventing, e.g. after 2100 hrs.. This is the only report NUFORC has seen to date, which
indicates an earlier time. We believe that they had nothing to do with the object(s) seen over Henderson, NV;
Paulden, AZ; Prescott, AZ; Dewey, AZ; Cordes Junction, AZ; Phoenix, AZ; Casa Grande, AZ; Tucson, AZ;
and Kingman, AZ. ))
(8)
Occurred : 3/13/1997 19:45 (Entered as : 3/13/97 19:45)
Reported: 1/31/2008 4:13:21 PM 16:13
Posted: 2/14/2008
Location: Stanfield, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:10 min
3/13/97 7:45p.m.
On 3/13/97 at approximately 7:45 p.m. my husband my son and daughter and I were on our way home from
a friends house , We live in a community called Hidden Valley, about 8 miles South of Maricopa and 6 miles
West of Stanfield and about 1 mile North of I-8 right off of Maricopa rd.
My husband saw it first and told us to look to the South over by Table Top Mountain, We watched as it flew
over Hidden Valley. My husband said “There’s an F.O. , I said F.O. what’s that? My daughter who was about
13 then, said flying object Mom. My son who was 11 at that time, interrupted her and said you mean U.F.O.
I asked him how he could tell that its not an airplane or something. He said, ‘cause it looks like a boomerang
with orange lights., and it’s moving too slow for a plane.
It had 5 big lights, looked like headlights , but the one in the middle was white, and the other 4 were amber
in color 2 on each side. It was very dark against the dim lit sky, you could see it was in a “V” shape and you
could not see the sky between the lights . It was very large and looked to be as long as a football field from
wing tip to wing tip. We watched it all the way to our house , which was only a couple of minutes. We got
out of our truck and watched it for at least 10 more minutes as it was moving towards Phoenix it looked to
be right over Phoenix International Raceway going towards Sky Harbor International Airport. We could see
the airplanes, coming and going from the airport, and they were much faster and higher up.
I have seen some strange things in the sky where I grew up, west of Phoenix on 195thAve. or lovingly called
Jackrabbit Trail, I’ve watched the jets from Luke A.F.B. scramble out to the White Tanks mountain range on
several different occasions following a sighting near or around Litchfield Park, Rainbow Valley ,
Goodyear/Avondale, and Buckeye Arizona. One time we had a cigar shape U.F.O. hover over our own house,
with a light so bright it was like lightning at night only not a flash but a steady ultra bright light, When my
mother tried to take a picture with a Polaroid camera the whole inside of the camera melted, when she
went to pull out the film, it was like melted strings of plastic or rubber and it stuck to her fingers like hot
wax, she had a bad burn on her thumb and first finger from it. Then just as fast as it came, it just lifted up
and out of sight, a few seconds later here come the jets from Luke A.F.B. That one I’ll never forgot about. I
was only around 10 years old then. I am a firm believer of U.F.O.’s and you have to pretty self centeredCall
to think that we are the only ones in this whole universe.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00 (Entered as : 03/13/1997 20:00)
Reported: 4/22/2008 2:20:03 PM 14:20
Posted: 6/12/2008
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:20-30 min
V shaped object that flew from the north of phoenix and eventually right over phoenix 3/13/97
I was sitting in my jacuzzi on the evening of March 13th, 1997. It was sometime between 7:30 and 8:30 P.M..
My recliner seat in my jacuzzi at that time faced the north. I could see planes coming in from the northwest
every couple of minutes which I assume were coming in from Las Vegas and they still fly that same pattern
today. As I was looking what would be due north I notice 5 lights heading straight this way as if they were
following I-17. I was thinking I was going to see maybe the concord. The lights were not real high off the
horizon when I noticed them. I set an watched them coming in anticipation to see what they are. At a
distance they looked like they were in a straight line. As they got closer they gained in altitude gradually and
I could see a V formation. There is a tree in the lot behind my house that they went behind for just a few
seconds. When they got on the south side of the tree I was amazed at how they had even gotten higher in
the sky. The lights never broke there V formation. I could see that this was one object of an enormous size.
The lights flew directly over Phoenix while gaining altitude at an accerlerated speed. I watch the lights along
with my Mom and cousin Katy. As the lights gained in speed and altitude the craft made a straight angle turn
with no curve in its turn. It was simply amazing. I have seen footage over the years and only one video
showed the same object or one similiar to what we seen. The lights that supposedly appeared down in south
phoenix I do believe were flares. The object I witnessed was flying and had no sound at all. It is way to big
for any aircraft that we as the general public no of. I do not know much about the other lights in south
phoenix but I wish they would debunk them and focus on the huge craft that actually flew from the north
and over the city of phoenix. I saw the video of the lights that were over Phoenix last night[4/22/08. At first
they resembled the lights I saw however the front light was not there and that video showed the lights
moving towards and away from each other so I know it was not the same object I saw in 1997. The object I
witnessed had "fixed" lights on it and they looked the same in roundness from any direction you looked at
them. When I was a kid my brother and I have one other sighting I would like to talk or write about but at
this time I would like to know more about the object that flew over ! Phoenix.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:00approx.)
Reported: 3/12/1999 13:56
Posted: 4/2/1999
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Chevron
Duration:5 min. approx.
An object, consisting of 5 lights, in the shape of an arrow, flew right over my house.
I was on my way to the store, when I looked up and saw 5 white lights, appearing to be equally spaced, in the
shape of a wide arrowhead. The lights were coming over a mountain, to the north of my house, that is used
for hang gliding. That was my first thought, a hang glider strung with lights. But the lights were bright enough
to show that they were not attached to a hang glider frame. A friend was coming to my house the same time I
was leaving, so I pointed the lights out to him. On my way to the store, I noticed my neighbers outside also
watching the lights. I stopped to talk to them about it, and we all came to the conclusion that what we were
seeing was a UFO. The object didn't emit any sound, and flew from north to south. I first noticed it above
Shaw Butte Mountain (15th Ave. and Cholla) and last saw it around 13th Ave. and Mercer Lane. The store trip
took me 10 minutes, max. I drove around a little, looking for the mysterious lights, but they were nowhere to
be found.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:00)
Reported: 12/12/1998 16:24
Posted: 1/28/1999
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Circle
Duration:10 minutes
From North to South over Camelback mountain High in the Arizona sky Hundreds of citizens see a
phenomena of lights Soundlessly, slowly pass by Uniform in motion and in V formation The appearance was
that of one mass And yet from directly under; more like five individual beacons, encased in spheres of fine
glass Was it our "Dark Star" with a cloaking device or estraterrestials offering celestial advice? "The truth is
out there" and one day we'll know This verse is just to chronicle the event For History.......On with the show!
My mother and I were on our balcony which faces north to Camelback mountain. At approximately eight
o'clock I observed five spherical lights the length of a football field floating towards us. My mother said "What
ARE you looking at?" Mom, I said, "LOOK AT THIS; THERE IS NO SOUND!" Both of us were in awe as we
KNOW the difference between ordinary aircraft and what we were looking at. She, the widow of an Air Force
war correspondent and myself having logged MANY air miles as a flight attendant/travel agent/international
tour guide. When it was reported as "flares" my comment to her was "NOW you know why I didn't notify
anyone!" What I did do was write the verse and commission an artist friend of mine who painted a 3 foot by 9
foot oil on canvass of the lights with camelback mountain in the background. It is almost as awe-inspiring as
the event itself. Prints are available if inter- ested. If I had been online and known of this website on March 13,
1997; not only would I have reported it immediately but I might have saved myself the grief of wondering
about a temporary tenuous grip on reality! Thank you for maintaining this website for everyone concerned.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00
Reported: 3/19/1997 19:36
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Chevron
Duration:10 minutes
Summary : "V" shaped black object with 5 lights, passed directlyover our house in Phoenix and didn't make a
sound. It's shape was that of a carpenter's square set at about 60 degrees, each arm about 300 feet long.
My 10 year old son and I had just arrived hope about 8pm and as he waited in the car for me to come around
and open the door, he was looking towards the Northwest to see if the comet might still be visible, when he
saw a grouping of lights. I looked and what I saw was what looked like at first a pattern of 5 lights in a half
oval on its up side. I thought it was a blimp with lights on it. It seemed to be floating but I noticed it was
coming directly in our direction. My son went in the house and got my wife, my 13 year old grandson and my
18 year old daughter, to come outside. We all watched these lights approach. Whatever it was it was moving
rather slowly. As it came close it no longer had an up-oval shape, but began to look more lie a "V" of 5 lights,
with one light in the center lead point and two lights on each side. The angle of the "V" was not very sharp,
maybe 60 degrees.As we stood there watching we were completely flabergasted because it was going to
pass directly over our house. And it did. It passed directly over head maybe a thousand or so feet overhead.
Our house is up on the side of a mountain in the Northeast part of Phoenix and we can see pretty far to the
northwest and southwest. When it passed overhead we all were looking at it and talking. For one thing, it
seemed to float over us and it made absolutely no detectable sound at all. We were trying to imagine what it
was. It certainly couldn't be a group of aircraft flying in formation, because the lights remained absolutely fixed
in relationship with each other. As we looked up we could see through the middle of the "V" but each arm
seemed to be flat shaped like a ruler, and rather long from the first lead light to the tip lights, maybe a couple
of hundred feet or more. It was huge.The kids got a little frightened, I suppose because we had no
explanation for what we were seeing. We watched it continue to fly towards the southeast until we no longer
could see any lights.My background: I am 54 years old, in perfect health. I have a Masters Degree from
Columbia University Teacher's College. Formerly worked for IBM as a systems engineer. More recently
worked in the electronics repair industry in management. Presently executive in a manufacturing firm. My wife
is a secretary at St Mary's Catholic High School. My one daughter is an honor student at the High School. We
live up on the side of this mountain and are always looking at the sky, so if we're outside not much is going to
go by without us seeing it. And we all have never seen anything like this.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00 (Entered as : 3-13-97 20:00)
Reported: 3/10/2000 19:11
Posted: 3/16/2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Other
Duration:5 minuets
a "Flying wing" which fley over my car as i was on I10 heading west
on 3-13-97 my grandmother and i were driving home from my aunts house. as we were at 67th ave on I10 we
saw a flying wing heading in our direction. it looked like a airplane about to crash with ist lights on, but it made
no sound of any kind. we got off the freeway at 83rd and followed the craft. we then heard a polie siren
followng the craf when it suddenly blinked and was not visiable. we didn't know what to think until we got
home and watched the 10:00 news. I would have posted this sonner but i only learned of this site a week ago
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:00)
Reported: 3/13/2002 4:13:26 PM 16:13
Posted: 3/19/2002
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:BRIEF
LOOKED LIKE A FORMATION OF PLANES WITH THERE LANDING LIGHTS ON ONLY THERE WAS NO
ENGINE NOISE FOLLOWING
STANDING IN THE PARKING LOT AT THE FRONT OF RUSTLER'S ROOSTE RESTAURANT NEAR THE
POINT HILTON IN PHOENIX LOCATED AT 7777 S. POINTE PARKWAY W. THIS PARKING LOT SITS ON
TOP OF A HILL OVERLOOKING THE PHOENIX METRO AREA. FOUR OF US LOOKED STRAIGHT
ABOVE OUR HEADS AND NOTICED A TRIANGLE FORMATION OF BRIGHT LIGHTS HEADING SLOWLY
TO THE SOUTH.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00
Reported: 3/17/1997 23:07
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: East Mesa /Apache Junction., AZ
Shape: Light
Duration:1 to 2 min
Summary : I came home after work at about 9pm 3/13/997. My children, ages, 7,8,& 11, had been in the
backyard all evening. When I arrived, they came running up very excitedly telling me of a strange white light
that had circled another white light and then sped away. I pretty much blew it off until I saw a report on the
local news about Thursday nights lights. I'm embarrased I didn't listen, and jealous I didn't see it myself.
Lights were white in color and seemed to be straight overhead.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:00)
Reported: 8/20/1998 12:26
Posted: 1/28/1999
Location: Glendale, AZ
Shape: Diamond
Duration:5 minutes
I had gone to visit with a friend at about 30 ave. and just north of northern, I arrived at his home and noticed
his car was gone, he had told me he had to go to the store so I just sat in front of his house in my car waiting
for him to return. While I was sitting there I happened to look to the northwest where I saw what looked like
four large, very bright white lights in the sky at about 30 degrees. It appeared that they were about one or two
miles away from where I was, probably somewhere around 43 ave. or 51 ave. and Olive. These lights
appeared to me to be in the shape of a very large diamond they were as bright as and maybe even brighter
than those you would see on a commerical jet airliner. When I first saw them they were coming straight down
out of the sky in a verical direction. I thought at first that they were the nose, wing, and tail lights of a large jet
crashing into the ground, but what was really strange about this was that they were moving downward very
slowly. As the lights came down closer to the ground they began to disappear behind the houses in the area, I
was thinking to myself that very soon I would be seeing a large fireball in the sky from the crash, but it never
happened. As I sat there thinking about what I had seen I decided that it was not a jet crashing because it
was moving to slowly. I also decided that it was not helecopters because all of the lights moved downward at
exactly the same speed, it did not look like flares because all of the lights were of the same intensity and were
a bright white color more like you would see on a jet for it's landing lights, except much bigger and brighter. I
could not see the body of any craft partly because the lights were so bright but also because it was so far
away from me. I do remember that as I was looking at it thinking it was a jet crashing, I thought that it looked
to big to be a jet, at that distance it would have been at least 10 times larger than a jet. A couple of days after
this happened I was talking to my mother and told! her what I had seen, after I told her about it she told me
that she had just seen on the local TV news a story about the "Phoenix Lights" that so many people all over
the valley had seen on that same night. I was not going to post this at first until I read on here how many
people had seen something like I had. This is the first time I have ever seen anything like this and I know what
I saw was something out of the ordinary, I will never forget it and it has made me much more aware of the
skys around me.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00
Reported: 3/14/1997 08:43
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Kingman, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:6 Minutes
Summary : 5 BRIGHT orange lights flying in a V formation
Around 7:30 p.m. my husband first observed 1 light moving across the sky in a SW direction. No flashing
lights just steady. I saw it also. 30 min later he was looking NW in the Hale-Bopp comet direction and saw a
fuzzy light above the horizon. Too late for the comet so we got a pair of binoculars and WOW. 5 BRIGHT
orange lights in a V formation. Not moving at first and then they were moving very slowly. We went to get a
better view and they were gone! Where we live they would have been flying over the Lake Mead area .
Possibly Red Lake. My husband and I are in our 40's. We own a taxidermy business. We are interested in
astronomy so we are usually looking at the sky. We know a plane from something wierd.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:00)
Reported: 7/14/2008 1:13:06 PM 13:13
Posted: 8/12/2008
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:5 minutes
UFO over Phoenix 1997
I just saw the show on tv called UFO over Phoenix or something similiar speaking about flares from
airplanes.
I lived around 35th ave and deer valley at the time and was 16-17.
I was jokingly looking through a cardboard telescope I had made at the sky when I saw the v shaped UFO. If I
recall the lights looked red, not sure if they even were testing stealth bombers at the time.
I for a fact saw the v shaped lights and saw it very slowly fly over my house. It was also completely silent.
I pointed for my mom to look and she saw it also.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:05 (Entered as : 3/13/97 20:05)
Reported: 2/27/2000 22:24
Posted: 3/7/2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape:
Duration:several minutes
early evening time object the size of 2 or three junbo jets could see lights invisible no sound moved incredibly
slow like a zepplin balloon
object was large about 2.5 i think of a large com. airliner flying south at a very slow speed i could see fixed
lights but the body was not visible it made no sound i was listening to a portable headset outside in glendale
az 3/13/97 no nieghbors had witnessed saw news team coverage the day after thought i would file this report
since no one has ever figured out what it was definetly real but if it could be a stealth or spy plane would be
my guess it was 8:05 or so passing my line of sight looking east from my home at about 55th and t-bird gl. az
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:10 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:10)
Reported: 3/13/2002 5:33:05 PM 17:33
Posted: 3/19/2002
Location: Tempe, AZ
Shape: Other
Duration:5-10min
Phoenix Lights
To Whon It May Concern, I was a witness to the Phoenix Lights.
I was leaving my apartment (8 PM) to go to the store. I looked to the north and saw a delta formation of amber
lights.
The lights were heading directly in my direction(Flying South). I thought, "oh boy, if this is a UFO I finally get
to see one." I could not figure their speed. But I would say they were flying slower than a civil airliner on
approach. (200-300 mph?) As the lights got closer I observed the lights moving individually(as a plane flying
through (or on) the air).
As the craft came overhead I could hear the faint whine of jet engines. I assumed they were a squadron of A10's flying formation, on the way to Davis Monthan AFB(in Tuscon, AZ, where A-10's are stationed).
They were defintly 9 individual jet aircraft of human origin flying south.
The following days were a real circus. When I read that people spotted a large craft. My belief in e.t. went
south with the planes I saw the night before.
A Phoenix Radio talk show host took up the subject in preceding days(weeks). He was asking for people to
call in who saw the lights. (I didn't call in) But someone called in and said they looked at the aircraft through
binoculars. They described aircraft but not of a known configuration.
I hope this helps.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:12
Reported: 3/18/1997 21:01
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Prescott, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:5 min
Summary : v formation white lights to start with at long range as it got closer looking through binoculars each
light was actually 2 one red one green 4 on one side 3 on the other like missing man formation moving very
slow and making no noise at all.
At around 8:15 on 03/13/97 four of us observed a v shaped object coming at us with bright lights. As it got
closer we got out some binoculars and looked at it, what looked like white lights were actually two lights
forming one. One light being green the other one was red. During this time the oddest thing about this, was
there was no noise at all. There was no moon to backlight this so we could only see the lights. I thought
perhaps because there was no noise that it might have been a pedal plane that I saw on the discovery
channel once. It appeared to be about 1000 feet in the air. One observer is a principal at a local gradeschool,
another telephone man, one dental asst., and a 14 year old.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:15
Reported: 3/19/1997 13:23
Posted: 8/28/2002
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:5 min
Summary : Myself, my 12 yr old son and his friend watched a large triangular shape craft with colored lights
(red mostly) in chevron design glide over my house very slowly and completely silent. We watched it as it
headed south for quite a long time. The ship was very large, flying very low and totally silent.I cannot
understand why there is not more coverage and concern regarding this sighting. I always believed there could
be other life out there - now I know
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:15 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:15)
Reported: 3/12/2006 4:51:27 AM 04:51
Posted: 5/15/2006
Location: Black Canyon City (5 miles N of), AZ
Shape: Chevron
Duration:appx. 2 minutes
Phoenix Lights on I-17 near Sunset Point Rest Area
Hi Peter, I heard you on Coast to Coast with Art Bell last night, and you finished the show asking for Phoenix
Lights eyewitness reports. Here is one more for you.
I think my sighting was somewhat unusual, because I saw the craft flying southward above Interstate 17
about 60 miles north of Phoenix. I've heard reports from the Prescott area, and of course in Phoenix, but not
many from in between.
Please refer to the following map: http://maps.google.com/?ll=34.174885,112.136593&spn=0.099698,0.100079 This shows I-17 north of Phoenix. The map is centered on the Sunset
Point rest area, which is about 1/2 mile up the road (north) after my sighting ended.
I was driving home from Phoenix, and the time was approximately 8:15 pm.
Don't take that time too seriously -- I didn't check the time while watching the UFO, and came up with an
approximation later based on the time I got home. (I was used to making the trip and new how long it took to
drive between Phoenix to the Sunset Point halfway point, and then home in Sedona.) See where I-17 is split
lower in the map area? That is the stretch of the interstate that connects the Sonoran Desert with a mesa
area at higher altitude.
The road there is curvy and is on about a 7% grade, with little or no shoulder.
It was getting dark, and while driving about halfway up that part of the road, I noticed an inverted V of bright
lights far off in the distance. They seemed low near the horizon, and at first I thought they were lights on a
distant mountain.
But that didn't make sense, because the mountain is off to the left (west), and the lights were just about 5
degrees left of straight ahead. Also, they were white color and steady, not flashing red as with a radio tower or
something like that.
While I was thinking those thoughts, I realized there was no way the lights were on the ground, since they
were getting higher in the sky and nearer (bigger)! Obviously, it was something or some things flying through
the air.
It was getting difficult to watch the lights, because I was in traffic, navigating curves uphill on a road with
almost no shoulder and a cliff to my left in case I messed up! (BTW, I was in the left lane of traffic.) As the
lights got nearer, I had to push my head forward toward the windshield and look upwards. It was a little
tricky...
The lights stayed on the left of my car, apparently flying over the southbound part of the interstate. I could
clearly see there were five lights, one at the tip and two each on either side, in the V shape. The lights were
white, but not pure -- slightly yellowish, like an incandescent light bulb.
As the lights were just a short distance away, I thought, "That is either 5 military jets flying in formation, or a
UFO." I watched to see if I could see a solid shape of a big ship, but it was too dark. As the lights got the
closest, I thought, "That is either an alien UFO or some secret government project." It didn't seem to be jets in
formation. There were only the 5 whitish lights, and no green or red lights, or flashing lights of any kind.
Another thing I remember thinking at the time was that I wondered how big the craft was. If it was flying low, it
might have been the size of a commercial airliner, but if it was higher up (tens of thousands of feet), it would
have been huge and moving very fast.
When I first spotted the lights off in the distance, they were about the apparent size of my thumb held at arm's
length. When the lights flew by, they were about the size of my fist at arm's length.
By the time the lights had passed by my car, I had driven all the way up the hill to the mesa where the Sunset
Point rest stop is located. I thought of pulling over since there was some shoulder there, but realized that by
the time I got out of the car, the lights would already have flown far away, and I wouldn't see much.
So I didn't stop.
Two days later (Saturday) I was out socializing around town, and mentioned to some friends that I'd seen
something while driving home from Phoenix. One guy looked at me and said something like, "Oh, you saw it!
You saw the UFO that was reported on the Phoenix TV news!"
If it weren't for that, I probably would have never connected my experience with the big UFO sighting, which I
otherwise would have heard about months or years later, after I'd forgotten what day it was I saw them.
I don't watch TV or read newspapers, and if other witnesses are anything like me, that would explain why you
don't get many more reports. It wasn't until months later I decided to do a search on the Internet and learned
that people were calling the UFO the "Phoenix Lights". When I learned that the UFO was a mile wide, I
realized that when I saw it, it must have been at a high altitude and really moving! I haven't tried to do any of
the math -- the calculation would be rough at best -- but I guess it must have been going about 2000 miles per
hour. (?) If I can figure out how many apparent angular degrees my thumb is, and use a stopwatch the next
time I drive home from Phoenix, maybe I can come up with a better number.
I'll be happy to do my best to answer any questions you have regarding my sighting.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:15
Reported: 3/19/1997 08:04
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Prescott, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:10 min
Summary : Observed five yellow-white lights travelling from NW to NE then turning to S
While doing astrophotography I observed five yellow-white lights in a "V" formation moving slowly from the
northwest, across the sky to the northeast, then turn almost due south and continue until out of sight. The
point of the "V" was in the direction of movement. The first three lights were in a fairly tight "V" while two of the
lights were further back along the lines of the "V"'s legs. During the NW-NE transit one of the trailing lights
moved up and joined the three and then dropped back to the trailing position. I estimated the three ;ight "V" to
cover about 0.5 degrees of sky and the whole group of five lights to cover about 1 degree of sky.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:15 (Entered as : 3/15/97 20:15)
Reported: 7/13/1999 23:19
Posted: 4/26/2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Light
Duration:10 min
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates in report that date of occurrence was 15MR97. Based on telephone
conversations with the same witness, we suspect that he is referring to the major events reported over
Phoenix on Thursday night, March 13, 1997. If our surmise is incorrect, we will change the date back to
15MR97 at a future date.))
Airline pilot views Phoenix lights from Interstate 10, while driving to work.
I have recently discovered your site and have enjoyed perusing it's contents. I read with some interest your
report on the "Phoenix Lights" as I was a witness to their passage on the night in question. I am a pilot with
one of the major carriers here in the valley and I live in the South Mountain area. On that night I was on my
way to work and traveling north along interstate 10 at approximately 8:15 PM. The lights first appeared to me
to be over the airport in a wide formation and traveling in a southerly direction, roughly over the interstate.
There is no question that they were anomalous, they got my attention immediately, and I was concerned
enough about distractedly weaving into other traffic while observing them, that I pulled off the interstate to
watch them go overhead. Where my account seems to differ from the accounts of other witnesses is that I
perceived the lights to be individual objects, five in all, traveling in a roughly triangular formation. As they
passed overhead, I took note of a particularly bright star and noted that the star was never obscured by any
solid object as the lights passed it. When the lights were directly overhead, they appeared to be comprised of
two lights per object, the bright light in the direction of motion and a much fainter light immediately behind it.
There was no variation in the color of the lights and no blinking or twinkling. It was very difficult to judge the
altitude of the objects, as they were never more than pinpoints of light moving very slowly; if I had to guess, I
would say they were at very high altitude. I know this is at odds with some of the more dramatic reports of a
gigantic dark object, but I am certain that I am not mistaken. Being a pilot, I am a trained observer of lighted
airborne objects and, while these lights were indeed strange, there is no doubt in my mind that they were
individual objects and not the running lights on some single large object.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:15
Reported: 3/18/1997 14:18
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Phoenix (Ahwatukee), AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:10 min
Summary : Sighted red to white horizontal line on the north west horizon. As the object got closer it looked
like a 5 light triangle. It passed over head and diasppeared into the south east horizon in about 10 to 15
minutes.
The object was first spoted by ((name deleted)) at approximately 2015 on 3/13/97. The object was seen on
the northwestern horizon. It appeared as a horizontal line with a red glow. We arrived home and got some
binoculars to see what it was.By this time it had changed color to a brilliant white and was in the shape of a
triangle. The best discription at this time was the leading edge of the B2 bomber. A light on the nose, one on
either side and toward the back, then one moreon either side spaced farther back than the first pair. There
were five lights in all. The object moved from the northwest to the southeast, almost directly over head of our
house. As it moved across the sky is believe I was able to seethe stars between the light formation. We tried
to hear a sound from the objects, thinking it might be helicopters flying in formation, but there was no strobe
or red and green marker lights. The formation of the five objects did not changeas you would expect from
aircraft. There was no change in spacing, no noise and it was as bright overhead as it was comming or going.
We could not tell how high the objects were, but while discussing what we saw the next day we realized
thatwe might have see these objects while they were over Prescott because they started out red then
changed to white while over Phoenix. We do not have any explanation for what we saw, but we both saw
something we've never seen before.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:15
Reported: 4/28/1997 05:00
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Phoenix (Tempe), AZ
Shape: Light
Duration:7 min.
Summary : 5 orange colored lights fall toward earth like fireworks. Shortly after they hovered in place,
pulsating and began moving at odd trajectories. They did this for several minutes, blinking in and out.
Moments later, they had vanished from view.
Driving Northbound on West I-10, from the Chandler Blvd exit, Miles looked out the car windshield and
noticed the objects positioned at one o'clock. As they were falling, I noticed five objects, three with sparks
coming off of them. Then I got Demian's attention and we both witnessed them stop above the horizon of the
city lights, hover, and began pulsating. Two, started moving independantly of the others at various right
angles and spiral motions, while the others maintained a steady pattern.By this point we had passed the Elliot
Rd. offramp and were proceeding toward the Superstition Freeway. By the time we had crossed beneath the
Guadalupe Rd. overpass, they had vanished from sight. From our assumption, they appeared to be East of
Sky Harbor by a few miles, somewhere over Tempe.There is not a dought in our minds that this unexplained
phenominon is indeed explainable. For the record, this report was typed prior to reviewing the posted repots..
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:15 (Entered as : 03/13/1997 20:15)
Reported: 2/19/2004 12:01:44 PM 12:01
Posted: 3/2/2004
Location: Prescott, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:5 Minutes +
Chevron formation of five white lights, plus other strange things.
As I write this, it is almost seven years since the events described actually happened. They left such a deep
and disturbing impression that I still think about them from time to time, as I have never heard an adequate
explanation. I discovered this website while searching for something, anything that might have come to light in
the intervening years, and felt compelled to add my account, as it includes some additional items that I
haven’t seen reported by anyone else.
On the evening of March 13, 1997 I was camping just outside of Prescott, AZ, in the forest near Hidden Valley
Dr. There was a campsite nearby that was closed for the season, but my tent was outside of the campground
area, on a hill I would estimate to be about a half-mile from Highway 89.
Just after 8:00 PM, I noticed several lights in the sky off to the West-Northwest. I assumed at first that they
were airplane lights, as they seemed to be the usual colors of red, green, and white, but they seemed to be
moving somewhat erratically (hovering and bobbing in the air), and I got the impression there was something
generally weird about them. The colored light they were casting seemed to project in much stronger beams
than I have ever seen from an airplane, and they seemed to be rotating and changing colors from a common
source, rather than the clearly separate lights that airplanes have. I recall that there were two of these objects,
but there may have been more that I dismissed as airplanes before noticing the oddness of the lights.
At around this same time, I saw first two, then three lights off in the trees to the Southwest. At first I had
thought they were the eyes of an animal, God only knows how I could have thought that, but then I noticed
the third light, and also noticed that they seemed to be pulsating, growing dimmer and brighter by turns.
These lights appeared to be very low to the ground, somewhere amongst the trees and evidently some
distance away.
As all this was going on, and I was getting generally freaked out, while I was looking in the direction of the
red/green/white lights, I saw a chevron formation of five very bright white lights appear out of the WestNorthwest sky. This formation banked towards the South, and flew directly overhead. I was observing this
from just inside the tent, with the opening facing Northwest (I was already pretty badly frightened by this point,
and had gotten into the tent for security), so I lost sight of them after they passed overhead. I cannot really
make a decent guess as to their altitude, or how fast they were moving--from the time I saw them to the time
they passed overhead was less than half a minute, so I had the impression they were moving pretty fast, and
at the time (having seen them from a great distance off) I assumed they were at high altitude, but descending
as I watched. My impression was that they were five separate objects, although they remained in perfect
formation when they performed the banking maneuver. I believe these particular lights passed over at around
8:15. They made absolutely no sound.
This brief sighting of five lights flying in a "V" was my only glimpse of what is now called the "Phoenix Lights."
For several hours, however, I continued to observe a number of strange things in the sky, including the
red/green/white lights, several lights that I would have thought were stars if they had not been moving in jerks
and starts in random directions, and at one point what appeared to be a circle of orange light (pretty much the
color of fire) passing through the sky from East to West, also without any sound. I was so exhausted that night
that I eventually fell asleep despite all the bizarre things in the sky.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:20 (Entered as : 03/19/1997 20:20)
Reported: 2/8/2005 10:03:54 PM 22:03
Posted: 2/22/2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Other
Duration:2 sec
Phx Lights orb
The night of the "Phx Lights" I was living under the path, unknowing it was there or coming. My apartment
door was open and I was watching tv facing the open door. An orb appeared, seemed to look at me for a split
second, flew in, bounced off the back wall and flew into my on/off button on my tv, and flew out. I saw this with
my eyes, and stared at the vcr, which showed 8:20, and listened for a fire truck, thinking some radio emission
must have come from a transmission. Several days later my brother said "did you see the lights?" I saw the
video and talked to someone who was shaken by seeing it and put 2 and 2 together although I have no idea
how this ties into a visitor to my door, who appeared to be playing with me. Hmmm.
((NUFORC Note: The dramatic sightings over Phoenix, AZ, occurred on the evening of March 13, 1997. We
have changed the date above to that date. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:20 (Entered as : 03/17/1997 20:20)
Reported: 1/22/2004 10:07:29 PM 22:07
Posted: 1/31/2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape:
Duration:10 sec
Phx Lights orb
During the night of the "Phx Lights" I was living under the path of the object. At 08:20 my apartment door was
open and an object came to my door ( an orb), paused as if looking at me, came in, bounced off the walls,
turned off my tv and I think went out the door. I looked at the time, listened for any fire truck in case they had
released a microwave or something, but there was only the normal sound of city traffic. Several days later my
brother said, "did you see the lights?". Also, I talked to a man who had seen the flyover. I didn't know anything
about it until the video made the news and I put two and two together with my encounter. I don't have the
slightest idea why it would be looking me up, but I was beeped by "it". No one has believed me yet.
((NUFORC Note: The "Phoenix Lights" sighting occurred on Thursday, March 13, not March 17. We have
changed the date above. We do not know if this is a serious report. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:20 (Entered as : 3/18/97 20:20)
Reported: 3/12/2006 11:12:42 AM 11:12
Posted: 5/15/2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:apx 4-8 min
v of lights over phoenix az.
witnessed the phoenix lights from diferent view from guest on coast to coast. witnessed from south west
corner of valley. came in from the north hoverd near camelback mountain and moved over skyharbor air port
and disaperied behind south mountains. these were definitley not flaires.
((NUFORC Note: We have amended the date above to March 13, 1997, the date of the dramatic sightings
over Arizona. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:20
Reported: 3/27/1997 00:20
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Northwest Tempe, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:15 minutes
Summary : We saw 5 red lights, in a V formation, from the north to the south, in a fifteen minute period.
Sitting outside my place of employment, I noticed red lights in the horizon, directly north of us. After noticing, I
jokingly said, "Hey guys, I think i see a UFO!" This was more of a gut fealing than a joke. My four friends then
saw what I was looking at. Since we were right by Skyharbor Airport, there were commercial planes flying
East and West. The red lights seamed to be lower in altittued and oblivious to the fact that it was flying directly
toward commercial aircraft traffic. They were in a V formation, three red lights in front, two red lights behind
and to each side. As they moved closer to us we moved into our parking lot. There seemed to be no "body" to
this aircraft, only lights. When directly overhead, it was so large, it wouldnt fit it into direct vision, I had to shift
my eyes to see the entire object. At this time, we realized that this was not one object, it was five, or more.
The red light in back and to my right, was trailing slightly. In talking !with my co-workers, some say the lights
were red, and some say they were orange. The lights slowly moved to the South, and then they were gone.
Then the following day, we saw the six o'clock news ( at work ) and all doubts were gone, it was a UFO!
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:25
Reported: 3/20/1997 15:15
Posted: 3/7/1998
Location: Buckeye, AZ
Shape: Sphere
Duration:5 MINUTES
Summary : Observed a number (3 - 5) of white/yellow lights hovering (suspended) approximately 7 - 10 miles
away. Observed streaking object leaving one orb and traveling at a high rate of speed in a horizontal manner
and leaving a "tail" or "trail" behind (much like a meteor, but in a straight path). The lights extinguished quickly
with no fading of "fizzling-out".
I have been observing these "lights" since approximately August/September, 1996. I live approximately 4
miles north of Buckeye and in an area that is in a diaganol line approximately 15 - 20 miles south/southwest
from Luke Air Force Base. The first night we observed the lights back in the fall, they appeared due South of
my home. There were three large orbs and were yellow/white in color. I called to my roomate to come and
see and she observed them at that time. We concluded they were flares of some sort. However, they
disappeared very quickly, as if a switch had been turned off. A few moments later, they appeared, all at once,
in a location several miles to the west of the original sighting. We were not at all convinced that these lights
were unexplainable, and we were mildly curious.The second sighting was perhaps a week later, with the
same type of behavior. This time, however, I retrieved my binoculars and both my roomate and myself
wathced the lights for several minutes. It appeared that there was heat emanating from the orb...we thought it
might be smoke, but it appeared more to be like radiant heat. We assumed that if it was a flare of some time,
it would gradually burn out, but once again it exstinguised itself very rapidly and we did not observe it again
that night.In visiting with my new neighbors, I asked whether they had seen these lights and they had not.
However, a week or so later, once again they appeared (in the same location), and I called them and had
them come outside to observe with myself and my roomate. They confirmed the sighting, and also thought
that perhaps it was some type of flare. The also observed the heat radiating from the orbs. They disappeared
as before.I am not a very good judge of distance or size, but if I were to estimate the size of these object in
relation to the night sky, I would say they appeared to be the size of 1/2 dollar piece. They have appeared in
numbers of 3, 4 and in a configuration of 3 with 2 to west side.I remember two other occasions in which I
observed these lights and began to feel that it was some sort of Air Force exercise or some other explainable
phenomena.The night of March 13, 1997, I was driving from Phoenix, west on I-10. I had left town at
approximately 7:45 p.m., and am guessing it was around 7:20 to 7:25 that I began to notice the lights. I
remember thinking that the lights were in a different position that I had observed them before. They were
more closely situated near the Estrella Mtns (west side) and seemed to be moving. Before, I had only
observed them being stationery. It did not really dawn on me that they were moving until I turned South off of
the interstate and began traveling south. I realized that the lights had moved to the location I was used to
seeing them...approximately 20 miles west of the Estrella Mts.By the time I was within one mile of my home, I
began to sense that these lights were moving much more erratically than I had previously observed. They had
moved even further west (it was approximately 7:25 - 7:30 by this time) and suddenly I saw the streaking
object seemingly coming from one of the larger orbs (there were 3 at this time) and move VERY rapidly
horizontally across the sky (to the northwest I believe). It seemed there was a tail of sparks or matter coming
from this smaller object and I can only compare it to a meteor, although I am certain it was NOT a meteor (it
moved in a straight line and then went out very quickly some distance from the orb). I ran into the houseand
summoned my roomate, but by the time we went outside, all signs of the objects were gone.I began asking
people at work back in Aug/Sept if they had seen any of these lights. I suppose they thought I was a bit
touched, but now that this major sighting has occured, they are remembering the days I came in with details
of what I had seen the night before. I wish I would have known how to contact someone back then.I am a
Data Processing Assistant (15 years) with a large school district in Phoenix. If you would be interested in any
other information or background information on myself or the other "witnesses" please contact me via email.
Thank you for providing this service.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:25
Reported: 7/13/2007 7:52:54 AM 07:52
Posted: 8/7/2007
Location: Glendale, AZ
Shape:
Duration:
In response to this story: http://www.nuforc.org/CB970313.html
Yes, there are F-15s stationed at Luke AFB. My father works for Boeing in St. Louis, MO (which at that time
was McDonnell Douglas) on the F-15 program. He visited Arizona several times to work with the Air Force at
that base. We even have photographs (which weren't technically supposed to take) of the jets sitting on the
base.
((NUFORC Note: We are grateful to the source of this information. We agree with the report, although we
have known since March 14, 1997, that Luke AFB was exclusively an F-16 training base. However, the two F15 "C" fighters (carrying "LANTIRN II" pods)) that intercepted an object above the intersection of 7th Avenue
and Indian School Road, at an altitude of approximately 11,500 ft altitude, we attached to the U. S. Air Force
Protection Group, which flies "cover" for any aircraft carrying either the President, Vice-President, or other
dignitaries.
We would very much like to speak with the USAF Lieutenant Colonel, who led the flight, and who had to be
helped from his cockpit, upon returning to Luke AFB that night. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:00-21:00)
Reported: 7/10/1997 01:41
Posted: 1/28/1999
Location: Tempe, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:5 minutes
Summary : I was in tempe with a bunch of my friends when we saw a group of about 5-7 lights in the sky.
They seemed to stay in the same place. This was that recent Arizona sighting. But I don't get why no one
mentions the stuff the planes were shooting in the air. They looked like missles, but they didn;t go in one
direction. They would descend, go left, bo right, go back up, go down again, and disappear. To me what I
thought it was, was the military testing missles. I got seven friends who all saw the same thing. The lights then
flew south and disappeared. I submit this so late because I thought it had to be just airplanes because the
whole city must have seen it. I was suprised to see this phen
The same thing as up above. All observers are college students at Arizona State
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 3/13/1997 20:30)
Reported: 3/12/2009 11:35:56 AM 11:35
Posted: 3/19/2009
Location: Goodyear, AZ
Shape: Unknown
Duration:5 minutes
The object sat a while in a field next to us, then slowly floated right over us until it disappeared.
I just watched the YouTube videos about the lights over Phoenix. I have to tell you that our military and
government makes me so mad. Everything has to be a cover-up with them. Maybe they should be more
honest with us; don’t we at least deserve that? I was 17 years old and I was teaching a Pop Warner cheer
squad on a football field out in Goodyear. There were also other Pop Warner cheer and football teams there
practicing. I don’t remember the exact time but it was between 8:30 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. from what I
remember. There weren’t less than 500 people there easily, parents, coaches and kids. I noticed that in the
field next to us there were several bright lights, almost like street lights. I didn’t pay much attention to them
because they weren’t moving and it wasn’t interesting. It did get interesting though when they starting
floating towards the field where all of us were practicing.
Everyone just seemed to stop and look up. It couldn’t have been more than 200 to 300 feet above us. We
couldn’t see anything; it was just dark like the night sky. We just saw that the lights moved together in
perfect formation and floated right over us until it faded off, almost like it disappeared. I didn’t really pay
attention to its shape because it was so large in circumference, and so close to us. The lights were not too
close together, but close enough together that we could see that it was an object. It also made no sound at
all.
I am angry because the military says that the lights were caused by flares. That is crap. Do they think we’re
stupid? Last time I checked, flares could not stay in perfect formation with each other, as if they were
connected. And I also wasn’t aware that flares could float over a crowd of people without moving up or
down, and then all go out at the same time. These lights all went out together, at the same time as if they
disappeared. I personally don’t believe that our military has the kind of intelligence to create something like
I witnessed that night.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30
Reported: 4/3/1997 00:07
Posted: 1/11/2002
Location: Chandler (app. 20 miles E/SE of Phoenix), AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:1.5 min
Summary : My wife and I witnessed a craft passing in front uf us that was close to a mile long.This
boomerang/trianglar craft became "transluct" when it passed through the light of the moon.
It was 8:30 pm., mst, 3/13/97, and I wasgoing to bed. I went to close the window,when three huge, white,
bright lights caughtmy eye. A plane was crashing from SkyHarbor Airport in Phoenix, the angle andspeed
would not allow a plane to survive.I ran to the living room, grabbed my glasses,and told my wife of 25 years,
Get outside,NOW! Never said that before, in that tone.We were standing on our porch within 8-10seconds.
This craft was 3000 ft. off thesurface. at least 1 mile in length. Thereis no doubt in our minds that what we
wereseeing, was one object. It appeared to betriangular or wedge shaped. Three bright whitebeams of light
up front, and 4-5 solid, non-blinking red lights on east side and rear.The moon at that time was at 45 degrees
anddirectly facing us. I told my wife, "We'llbe able to see detail as it passes in frontof us, directly in front of the
moon. As thecraft passed thru the light of the moon, thecolor of the moon changed to dingy yellow,and we
could see horizontal "waves" as itpassed. These waves were similar to gasolinefumes if one to take the lid off
of a gas can,and look at the reflection of the fumes. Thecraft was viewed by us from a straight linenorth to
south. It never moved irratically,nor did it make a sound. It was totally quiet.Our viewing sight was
approximatly 2 milesfrom the craft. We witnessed a plane in landingformation pass right over the object. It
neveradjusted its course. It didn't see it. I toldmy story to MUFON on 1-15-97. We were on,"Strange Universe"
on 3/31/97 as witnesses tothis great event. The video on the news and tvis not what we saw at or near that
same time.Our sighting was one solid object. We live inthe far eastern part of Chandler, and had anexcellent
view point. This craft had no visiblemeans of propulsion and was totally quiet.Itnever changed course and
went straight southtowards Tucson, Az. The object was dark andwas not big in height, but beyond huge
inlength. We were back inside by 8:45 in totaldisbelief of what we had seen. It wasn't untilwe saw the news
the next day, did we realizethat others had seen massive sightings. I am44 years old, married for 25 years,
threegrown boys, and twin granddaughters, I am aUS Navy veteran, with 14 years education.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30
Reported: 3/18/1997 16:01
Posted: 8/5/2001
Location: Chino Valley, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:3 to 5 Minutes
Summary : Observed 5 white lights approaching from thenorth west at what appeared to be a low levelbut
rising as they approached. 3 lights infront in a triangular pattern, followed by 2 lights to the rear forming large
triangle. Lights went out as passed over. No sound.
The lights moved at a relatively slow pace incomparison to commercial jet traffic in thearea and as the lights
passed overhead theywent out as though they were all on the fronte dges of the object and were obscured by
the object as it passed. All lights were uniformin size and all appeared white. Path of travel would seem to be
from the area of Kingman, Arizona passing just west of Chino Valley and on toward Prescott Valley. Path
would be slightly north and east of the Prescott airport "Love Field".
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates a time of "11:33," but does not specify whether am or pm. We have
arbitrarily assigned what we feel is the correct time of the event, which was approximately 2030 hrs. on
13MR97. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 03/13/97 18:30)
Reported: 1/7/2000 07:22
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Chevron
Duration:20 minutes
Witnessed the object travel south along Interstate 10 toward Casa Grande
On the evening of March 13, 1997, my son and I were driving on I-10 where it flows due East through Phoenix
AZ. The time was approximately 8:30 P. M.. I noticed what I initially thought was a long line of commercial
aircraft approaching Sky Harbor International Air Port from the North preparing for a Westerly landing. I
remember thinking it odd that they all appeared to be at the same elevation and none were changing position.
As we continued on, I-10 turns South heading toward Casa Grande and Tucson. At that time I lost sight and
interest in the lights. We left I-10 at the Riggs Road exit and headed East towards my son's home. I again
noticed that the lights were still in the same type of pattern and at the same altitude. They also appeared to be
much closer. We arrived at my son's home some 5 minutes later and I went outside to check on the lights
while the rest of the family ate dinner. By this time, it was clear that the lights were not separate lights but
actually fixed in position relative to each other. They appeared to be part of a structure that was in the shape
of a very large v and were moving South and appeared to be over, or very close to, I-10. The lights were on
the leading edge of whatever this was. I remember that there were approximately 10 to 13 lights which would
appear to extinguish and re-light in no particular sequence. (Could the lights be some form of propulsion?) To
say that the object was large is an understatement. It was traveling South approximately 30 degrees above
the horizon, moving very slowly and with absolutely no sound. If it was directly over I-10 1 mile to the West, it
would be in the range of ½ mile wide. I followed the vehicle for nearly 15 to 20 minutes as it passed through
my field of vision from what would be North by North West to South by South West. Using 15 minutes to
traverse this roughly 210 degree arc, 1 mile away equates to a an approximate air speed of 15 to 20 mph.
The vehicle was obviously solid in nature. As it passed by, the stars in the field of view were not visible behind
the vehicle (or whatever it was). As it passed by, the number of lights still visible was reduced as the
starboard leading edge was blocked from view. This only served to further substantiate my opinion that the
phenomenon was solid. I was located in an area that had very little ambient light so the stars were clearly
visible. It passed from view as it traveled toward Casa Grande, 25 miles to the south. It is important to note
that the lights I witnessed had nothing to do with the widely reported Phoenix Lights that descended behind
South Mountain, West of my position. I did not observe those lights which have been reported, from at least
one source, that they were a diversion to draw attention from the vehicle that I saw. Name to be withheld,
please.
((NUFORC Note: We have corrected the time to 2030 hrs.. Witness indicated "1830" hrs., which we feel is an
error. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 03/13/97 2030)
Reported: 5/15/1997 09:37
Posted: 1/28/1999
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:3-4 minutes
Summary : Phoenix UFO sighting March 13, 1997
My wife and I were standing out front while she was smoking. We always look in the sky when were outside at
night and I had just went in the house and sat down at the computer. I didn't even touch the keyboard when
she was hysterically yelling for me to come outside. I ran outside as quickly as I could because I thought there
was something happening to her. She pointed into the sky and told me to look at these lights. It was clearly
obvious that it was a craft of some sort. We could see the area between the lights which had a tiangular
shape, was solid and was a different shade (darker) of black than the night sky. It moved towards Sky Harbor
airport as it moved away from us. It made no noise as it went by.We are in the flight path of Sky Harbor and
look at the planes as they go over (about 5000 feet). In comparison, you could of lined 3-4 jet airliners end to
end and hung them underneath this thingI was an aircraft maintenance specialist in the Air Force working on
B-52's, KC135's, C-5's, and C141 aircraft. I have hundreds of flying ours with about a hundred of those in
hostile airspace over Vietnam.I also spent 3 years in the Army Special Forces (Green Berets) as a light
weapons specialist, a nuclear, biological, chemical warfare specialist. I am a certified Quality Assurance
Specialist in Electronic and Software commodities for the Department of Defense and I am presently working
as a Software Quality Engineer for Honeywell. I have an A.S. degree in Quality Assurance and a Bachelors
degree in Management.My wife is a Network Specialist for the Arizona State Internal Revenue Service. She
has an A.S. degree in Law and is working on her Bachelors degree in Information Systems.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30
Reported: 4/17/1997 00:59
Posted: 8/5/2001
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:5 min +
Summary : 4 orange lights at about 30' elevation looking to the North/North-East. Appeared in a wide
trapazoid formation. Very slow moving.
Four bright orange lights were seen just after sundown at about 30' elevation looking to the North/North-East.
They were in a trapazoid-type formation. We also noticed some smaller white lights appearing around the
orange lights that looked as if they might have been associated in some way. The lights seemed to be moving
very slowly toward the South. The formation gave the impression of a plane, only much, much larger.
((NUFORC Note: We believe the correct time of the sighting to have been approximatel 2030-2040 hrs.. We
have changed the time here. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:30)
Reported: 4/6/1999 05:15
Posted: 4/26/1999
Location: Gila Bend (G.B.AUXILLARY FIELD, ), AZ
Shape: Chevron
Duration:20 MINS.
At approx. 2015 hrs.flares dropped were close enough that I could see the white smoke as each burned, but
the parachutes were not visible. 15 flares were dropped in close succession into a near-perfect V shape. They
burned about 15 mins. before they went out.
As a security officer for the GBAF at the time, I was on patrol duty and located at the salvage yard at the
Southern end of the Base. At approx. 2015 hrs. I observed 15 flares dropped in close succession with in 3
mls. of my location. This was unusual because the area seemed to be over 'D' area or Dart Drop as it is called
but is NOT used for night target exercises because of the close proximity to the Base. The closest target area
is South in Range 3 - EastTac another 5-8 mls. SE. The flares dropped were close enough that I could see
the white smoke as each burned, but the parachutes were not visible. 15-16 flares were dropped into a near
perfect 'V' shape pointing west. I had only observed 2-5 flares used at a time and usually staggered. Another
officer remarked on his radio that he thought a bunch of people were going to report a UFO after seeing that.
Someone else said he did hear on the news over the radio that people were reporting a v-shaped ufo over
PHX. Later, I listened to the Art Bell show for the begining 10 mins. and heard the same. There are at least 3
mt.ranges between here and Phx., all of which are at a higher elevation than the height of the flares I
observed. The closest town is Ajo another 40 mls. S. of Gila Bend, and I doubt that anyone there could have
seen these flares. And about 10 mls. further N. on hwy.85 the ranges start blocking the South view. It seems
obvious to me that the connection of my observation of an unusual flare drop to the 'Phx. lights' that evening
was a pretext to the authentic ufo reports.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 04/19/1997 20:00)
Reported: 1/18/2004 4:00:25 AM 04:00
Posted: 1/22/2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape:
Duration:hour
Phoenix lights were were explained on the Art Bell website by Ed Dames (Dr Doom) many years ago. I would
email my copy but it was saved on a hard disk that no longer workd. Ed Dames said it was theatrical lazers on
a rooftop in south Phoenix that were invisible to the eye until they crossed in the air. Since the sighting,
somebody fed the press a picture they took of parachute flares being droped far to the west-south-west, that
were clearly parachute flares on another date completely. By the way, I'm a retired Air Force Pilot with a
million miles of flying, and another million miles of driving trucks and taxi cabs, and I've never seen aliens in
the sky. Yes there are UFO's - for example when I see a 747 I try to count the upper floor windows to see
what series 747 it is. The 747-100 was glued together and they're not flying anymore - it had fewer than 7
upper deck windows. The current 747-400 has two rows of upper deck windows. It's an unidentified 747 until I
can get a look at how many windows the upper deck has, but it's not an alien ship, just a Unidentified 747.
There are no flying saucers, sorry. I've never seen one. I've seen thousands of unidentified flying objects but
none of them were alien spaceships. Goodness. Get your act organized. Ed Dames long ago explained the
Pheonix lights.
((NUFORC Note: Witness gets date for the "Phoenix Lights" wrong; it is March 13, 1997. We have corrected
date above. Ed Dames, appearing on the Coast to Coast radio program with Art Bell, its host, declared that
through a process of "technical remote viewing," he had determined that the entire event over Arizona had
been caused by "two, blue-green, one-half, split-beam lasers," which allegedly had been mounted on the tops
of buildings in downtown Phoenix, and had projected the images into the night sky above Phoenix. The
proposition is so absurd, in our opinion, that we won't bother to address the issue here, but rather leave it up
to the reader to make up his own mind. We will comment to the extent, however, that the "lasers" would have
to have been able to project their beams through clouds, dust, and even mountain ranges (!!) in order to have
been able to do what is claimed by Dames. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 03/13/1997 20:30)
Reported: 7/17/2005 8:23:54 PM 20:23
Posted: 9/2/2005
Location: Chandler, AZ
Shape: Unknown
Duration:3-10mins
i was driving north on I-10 from gila river indian community.
i got on the ramp i-10 north..at queen creek rd.around 8pm or before 9pm on i-10 and before chandler blvd
the object was in the air above the highway.
i passed under the object at 40mph as all the other cars and semi trucks.
i looked with my head out my driver side window right under it.
the object was bigger than two or three football fields (( you can tell by not seeing the stars)).
the lights of the cars ,trucks , and highway lamps did not refect off the object.
this object was maybe 200 ,300 feet high ((from the bottom surface to the ground..
from all these years from the event i don't remember how many lights but they were orange in color....
under the object, the orange diameter 15 to 20 ft... to 10 12 ft high the light is like a glow...
but the glow is from straids in this diameter...
this is how the color look is //// the flash bulb of a 50's camera , the straids are orange...
the straids did not move in the diameter. no heat or sound...
you can see a darker blackness inside the diameter circle..
the bottom of the diameter is open to the atmosphere..
all i can say is that the straids of a flashbulb orange glow today there is el wire neon wire that looks like it but
in a gas fade look..
i felt a calm manner under it..
the sound from outside of the car can be a mmm transformer or just the tires, hard to tell under the object it
felt like a long time.. about 3-10 mins from the miles before to miles after ( after in the mirror)) this event was
on my mind for years.. thanks for reading
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:30)
Reported: 1/18/2009 1:30:52 PM 13:30
Posted: 3/19/2009
Location: Tempe, AZ
Shape: Light
Duration:20 min
Nothing WE have, could have done what we all saw that night.
I was a witness of the famous "Phoenix lights" mass sighting back on the eve of March 13th 1997. This event
changed everything for me... Later that year my wife left with the kids, followd by a nasty divorce. I tried to
forget what I know I saw... for 10 years I made it, working nightly in the same outdoor welding shop that I
was working in, on THAT night. The guy on the radio starts talking about the upcoming 10 anniversary of the
"Phx Lights" mass sighting, and it was like a switch in my head came on. I was instantly awakened... no
longer can I hold back on what I saw, and it has become an obsession. I then reported my story on any ufo
website that had the ability. That's been a few years now and I have yet to be interviewed on what I saw.
The vision of the massive yet elegant airshow that was displayed to those who were watching that night, will
continue to play on my head like no other memory I can think of. As I watched it silently make a banked turn
as it glided gracefully at the same elevation (or below) as the South Mtn range that it was effortlessly
floating along as it flew away from me. When I first saw it, it was floating over the S.East end if the airport
area, and it was in a semicircle pattern about 5 miles wide. Each of the orbs that made up the outline could
move individually (and a few did). The light of each orange/red orb came from within and didn't radiate out
(like molten metal). The orbs started moving and formed into a V shape with one side lopsided by on or 2
orbs. when it pivoted to start moving the orb in the middle became the nose of the now V craft and when it
pointed as if it were going to come my way... I panicked and turned to run... I then realized that this thing
my be 9 miles away from me. I turned back around and instantly my fear was gone and as I watched it for
the next 15 minutes, I tried not to blink, as I didn't want to miss a second of it. I then told a few people and
mentioned it to my wife, and it lay dormant in my head until t! he hype of the 10 year anniverssary of it
brought it all back. The "flare" explaination is insulting to my intelligence... I've lived here in the Phx valley all
my 52 years and have seen my share of flare drops... Not even close. We have nothing on this earth (maybe
inside it or interdimentionally) that could put on a show like we saw in Phx that night.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:30 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:30)
Reported: 2/17/2000 17:59
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:3 min.
Another report on the Phoenix lights, but every prospective is important to get the whole picture and or map
the object as it decended on Phx.
On March 13,1997, I decided to walk my small dog in the neighborhood, it was a nice evening,I walked NE,
then back SW back toward my home. I was at the corner of Ramuda and the block behind my home when I
somehow became aware of many lights coming toward me very slowly and deliberately. They were red in
color and not too bright but low, very low to the ground coming right towards me. At first I thought,oh it's
helicopters from the airforce base or something. The lights were in a v shape but a very wide or fat v. I saw 4
lights that seemed to be evenly apart and one lagged behind, uneven compared to the rest. As they got closer
still, I was acutley aware that this wasn't just helicopters because they were close, low and no sound could be
heard from them at all. I just stood there in total awe. Even the dog seemed to be aware of this object or
objects. The object changed altitude right in front of me, I tried to see stars throught he middle of the lights but
saw none. As the object moved away it turned toward the west from coming south and west. As the object
changed direction,I could only see 3 lights,still red in color. It also changed speed. I live in North Phoenix in a
subdivsion called Tatem Highlands closest crossroads being Tatem and Jomax. Many of my neighbors walk
dogs late at night, however I seemed to have been out alone this particular night. There were three folks I
yelled at immediatly after the object moved away from me, but they didn't seem to understand what I was
saying. My husband is an astronomy teacher and "poohed,poohed" me when I told him what happened. Of
course the next day when the story was in the news, he seemed more interested.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:40 (Entered as : 03/13/97 19:40)
Reported: 7/13/2000 22:00
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:4 minutes
I saw seven UFOs apppear in formation then disappear.
It was about 7:40 pm. I had just left work.I boarded Interstate 10 northbound from chandler Blvd.As i was
looking north I noticed 5 then 6 then 7 bright lights suddenly appear in the sky afew miles ahead.they formed
a straight line, then formed a V shape formation then back to a straight line this lasted afew mintues.Then I
noticed the lights blink out one by one. I started to get goose bumps up and down my arms.I drove faster to
get home and turn on the news to see if I was seeing things or if infact other people saw this too. When I got
home A friend of mine was waiting outside my apartment for me and seemed very excited about something!!
The first words out of his mouth were "Hey Kevin you will never guess what I just saw!!" I said "Did you just
see a bunch of UFOs over there?(pointing northwest). He said "YES!!". We went inside my apartment and
turned on the TV.But nothing about it was on yet.We compared our stories and they were the same. Neither
one of us could shut up!!!.When the news came on we learned that we were not the only ones that saw
this,and that there was also a seperate second sighting of a V shaped object that flew over the entire state
witnessed by hundereds of people.We were both very excited and very concerned.We kept on talking about
our sighting.
((NUFORC Note: We believe the witness may have erred with respect to the time of the sighting. It may have
been 2040 hrs., not 1940 hrs., but we will check with the witness and correct the time, if necessary. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:40 (Entered as : 20:30-50)
Reported: 3/20/1997 01:26
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Mesa (at Mesa Community College), AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:2-3 MINUTES
Summary : LARGE TRIANGULAR OBJECT WITH 5 DIM AMBER LIGHTS (ONE IN EACH CORNER AND 2
MORE NEAR FRONT) MOVED SLOWLY NW TO S-SW WITH NO NOISE.
I SAW THE OBJECT AT MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WHERE I AM A STUDENT. THE TIME WAS
APPROX. 8:30-8:50 PM (I DIDN'T CHECK THE TIME UNTIL LATER, SO THIS IS AN ESTIMATE) AND I
WAS WALKING WEST. I WAS LOOKING AT THE CONSTELLATION ORION (SW) WHEN I NOTICED A
CONSTELLATION LIKE TRIANGULAR CLUSTER OF 5 DIM AMBER LIGHTS (NW) OPPOSITE ORION. I
BEGAN TO OBSERVE THIS CLUSTER OF LIGHTS AND QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THEY WERE
SLOWLY MOVING (NW TO S-SW) AND THAT THEY WERE PART OF A TRIANGULAR SHAPED OBJECT.
THERE WAS A LIGHT IN EACH CORNER AND 2 MORE NEAR THE FRONT, WHICH FORMED A
SMALLER TRIANGLE.. *. .* .* .* . .. .*I HEARD NO NOISE. I ASKED ANOTHER PERSON WHO WAS
READING THE SCHOOL PAPER IF HE SAW IT, AND HE SAID HE DID AND NOTED THAT THEY WERE
MOVING. THE OBJECT APPEARED TO BE MUCH LARGER THAN ANY AIRCRAFT AND DID NOT
APPEAR TO BE ONE. ALSO, I NOTED THAT THER WERE AT LEAST 3 AIRCRAFT IN THE SKY AT THE
TIME (2 NORTH AND 1 SOUTH), ALTHOUGH NOT CLOSE TO THE OBJECT. I OBSERVED IT FOR AT
LEAST 2-3 MINUTES UNTIL IT WAS NO LONGER VISIBLE IN THE S-SW (IT APPEARED THAT THE
LIGHTS DIMMED BUT IT MAY HAVE BEEN OBSCURED BY CLOUDS?). IT MOVED IN A SLIGHTLY
CURVED, ALMOST STRAIGHT PATH.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 20:45 (Entered as : 03/13/97 20:45)
Reported: 7/10/1997 17:14
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:3 minutes
Summary : Unexplained Arizona Sighting
At approximately 8:45PM I went the front yard of my Phoenix home which is located in the southern part of
the city, an area called Ahwatukee. I looked to the east and saw a very strange looking craft flying (?) very
slowly in the sky. It was moving away I assume as it was getting smaller. It was very visible against the
Superstition Mountains. It moved slowly from north to south and back again in what appeared to be a ric-rac
pattern. It was quite large, I agree with the others who put their arm up and measured with a closed fist. It
appeared triangular in shape, I related it to a "squashed" pyramid. I saw three very bright white lights, one in
each corner and one at the top of the "pyramid". In the center was a very, very bright pulsating red light,
bigger in circumference than the three white lights. I would describe the white lights as three powerful strobe
lights. We watched the object for several minutes and we amazed that something that large could move so
gracefully! and so silently. We could hear no sound at all. It gradually faded into the south east sky.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:00
Reported: 2/24/2005 8:47:00 PM 20:47
Posted: 5/24/2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Diamond
Duration:2 to 5 minutes
I witnessed th "Phoenix Lights" the evening of March 13th 1997 from a distance of one to two miles.
I witnessed the "Phoenix Lights" on March 13, 1997
My mother and wife were watching TV and I went out to the back patio to have a cigarette around 9:00 pm
and within minutes saw the lights moving South over Squaw Peak just east of our home. I wanted my wife to
see them but was fixated on watching and figured she would not have time to get outside before they were
gone.
My watching time was a couple of minutes or so and I immediately knew I was seeing something not
natural/normal. I was watching six or more bright orange lights in a V formation (like a boomerang) moving
slowly at a low altitude. There was no sound.
The minute it had passed I went in the house and told Mother and wife what I had just seen. I wondered if
others had also witnessed the happening.
The next morning it was big news and was seen by hundreds from towns starting in northern
Arizona.....through Phoenix and on down to Tucson.
I called the Arizona Republic and told the reporter what I had seen and assured her I was not into UFO
happenings and was hopeful of an explanation.
To this day a reasonable explanation has never been given.
(I am a retired corporate VP living in North Phoenix)
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:00
Reported: 2/24/2005 8:48:45 PM 20:48
Posted: 4/16/2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Diamond
Duration:2 to 5 minutes
I witnessed th "Phoenix Lights" the evening of March 13th 1997 from a distance of one to two miles.
I witnessed the "Phoenix Lights" on March 13, 1997 My mother and wife were watching TV and I went out to
the back patio to have a cigarette around 9:00 pm and within minutes saw the lights moving South over
Squaw Peak just east of our home. I wanted my wife to see them but was fixated on watching and figured she
would not have time to get outside before they were gone. My watching time was a couple of minutes or so
and I immediately knew I was seeing something not natural/normal. I was watching six or more bright orange
lights in a V formation (like a boomerang) moving slowly at a low altitude. There was no sound. The minute it
had passed I went in the house and told Mother and wife what I had just seen. I wondered if others had also
witnessed the happening. The next morning it was big news and was seen by hundreds from towns starting in
northern Arizona.....through Phoenix and on down to Tucson. I called the Arizona Republic and told the
reporter what I had seen and assured her I was not into UFO happenings and was hopeful of an explanation.
To this day a reasonable explanation has never been given.
(I am a retired corporate VP living in North Phoenix)
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:00 (Entered as : 03/13/1997 21:00)
Reported: 11/10/2007 11:29:31 AM 11:29
Posted: 11/28/2007
Location: Phoenix (north of), AZ
Shape: Chevron
Duration:30
Five V-shaped lights heading south on I-17 toward Phoenix
My wife and I were driving from Sedona, Arizona to Phoenix on the evening of March 13, 1997. We were
traveling south on I-17 about 30 miles north of Phoenix. It was slightly after dark.
My wife and I both noticed a V-shaped formation of 5 lights flying south at a slow speed. The lights were to
the right of us and almost above us (we needed to lean forward and look up and to the right through the
windshield of the car).
The lights continued south along I-17 at roughly the same speed as our car for almost 30 minutes. There was
no visible object between the lights.
The lights were moving slowly for an aircraft and we assumed it could only be something like a group of
helicopters flying in formation.
We drove to a hotel near Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix. When we got out of the car, I scanned the sky again
for the lights and did not see them.
I do not recall the exact time of this incident, but I believe it was around 9:30 or 10pm when we arrived at Sky
Harbor. The lights were visible along the west side of I-17, traveling south, for at least 20 to 30 minutes.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:00 (Entered as : march 13,1997 about 9:00)
Reported: 7/31/1997 09:43
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape:
Duration:
Summary : me,my uncle,my friend,and my dad were outside(in our backyard)when we saw 5 or 6 brightly
lighted lights in the sky(about a mile long or so,in formatian)at first we thoght nothing of it,but then they started
darting back and forth. later on we asked Luke A.F.B what the lights were,they told us that they were
helicopters in formation,but i don't belive that.they were much to fast.
((NUFORC Note: We presume the witness means 9:00 p.m., and we have changed the time here. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 2100)
Reported: 3/13/2002 3:00:34 PM 15:00
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration:4 minutes
My wife and I were walking our dogs on the south side of South Mountain in the mountain park when we saw
the ufo come over the mountain at low altitude (500'appx) headed southbound. It was s i l e n t and had 5
white globes along the leading edge of a black triangle shaped object which blacked out the stars and was
about a mile wide.
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:00 (Entered as : 2100???)
Reported: 3/19/1997 08:27
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Prescott, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:30 seconds
Summary : Saw 5 bright lights in triangle formation in the northand heading southeast at an extremely fast
speed.
Here's what I saw. I was taking the dogs out before bed (I'mnot exactly sure what the time was, around 2100 I
think)and I looked to the north and saw 5 very bright white lightsin a triangle (or V) formation moving really
fast southeast.Then they broke formation. The light in the back and below(from my angle) slowed up. Now I
started to wonder what I waslooking at because most planes would keep formation or at leastbreak formation
completely. Never saw a plane with lights asbright as these also. The group seemed to rotate 90 degrees
tothe left and go a little south of Mingus mountain. I was suprisedthat I couldn't hear them so I listened harder.
I did hear thesound of a faint rustling in the sky, not like a jet, but of somethinmoving extremely fast through
the air. The sound was a ways behindthem also and did seem to follow them. I then started lookingaround at
two other planes flying. Sessna's by the sound andspeed of them. Also by the red flashing lights. I saw the
lights fadeinto the distance and I headed back inside. My first notion was whathas our government got up
there? New stealth technology? Then whythe lights? I also thought the lack of sound could have been some
formof some top secret frequency cancellation system that the governmentis checking out. But still, why the
lights?It didn't hit home that these could possibly be UFO's until I heardpeople talking about it on Friday. Then
I knew I had seen somethingthat was definately unexplainable. At least by me.It was definately not the comet,
flair, balloon, or any other thing ofthat nature.Anyway, feel free to call if you want more information
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:00 (Entered as : 3/97 21:00)
Reported: 1/4/2007 5:29:19 PM 17:29
Posted: 2/1/2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Other
Duration:
A spaceship flys through the sky in a V shape.
It was about 9:00 pm and I saw this V shaped thing with lights on the bottom.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. We suspect that he may be
alluding to the events of March 13, 1997, so we have changed the date above. We will write to request more
information. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 21:15 (Entered as : 03/15/1997 21:15)
Reported: 11/21/2007 12:25:40 AM 00:25
Posted: 11/28/2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Rectangle
Duration:approx. 10 min.
03/15/1997, 21:15 Phoenix, Arizona 20 rectangular objects in "V" formation, performed circular spin, etc.
March 15, 1997 Possible UFO Sighting over northwest metro Phoenix, Arizona.
Location: Observed from side street near major intersection of 43rd Ave. and Peoria Ave.
Sighted multiple objects flying in formation, first noticed in SSE position moving south to north.
Objects had a slight tan, copper toned color, which I at first thought might be the reflection of city streetlights.
As they approached closer, nearly overhead, they appear uniform in color and seemed to be illuminated with
a glow similar to Christmastime luminaria (candles placed in brown paper sacks or bags). I could not tell the
altitude of the objects. They were moving due north in a wide “V” formation. There were about ten objects in
each arm of the “V” all the same rectangular (shaped like a postage stamp, slightly longer in the north-south
dimension, the direction of travel). Meantime, a commercial airliner was climbing out on a NE heading as if it
were heading for Denver (very noisy) to my left that would place it over the far northwest area of Glendale,
probably over 67th Ave. and Bell Rd. or slightly farther north, possibly over 67th Ave. and Union Hills Rd. I
was riding a bicycle on a dark side street facing east. As I recall, the evening was clear and moonless. I
figured that the “V” formation would cross the path of the jet airliner and I would be able to get an idea of the
altitude and size of the objects as they intersected with the airliner.
As the “V” formation approached overhead, slightly to the east, if low, possibly traveling above 35th Avenue.
If higher, they possibly would be above Black Canyon Freeway (I-17), over the Metrocenter regional shopping
mall. The “V” formation was not directly overhead, but slightly to the east of me at an undetermined altitude.
As I watched the “V” formation approach the point directly east of me, the objects did a coordinated
maneuver: They moved out along the “V” and spun in a coordinated circular pattern and then moved close
together in a circular group packed tightly but none of them overlapping. They moved out of the “V” formation
in opposite directions and formed two separated circular clusters. In doing this complicated maneuver, they
never changed speed or their north-south orientation. The motion out of the “V” formation reminded me of the
Paramount logo at the start of Hollywood movies where the star flow up an around the mountain forming a
circle of stars.
This happened out of the arms of the “V” forming a rotating circle of rectangular objects that then tightened
the circle into a paced grouping also having a roughly circular perimeter with all the objects maintaining their
north-south direction only now formed into two separate circular tightly packed cluster – still moving toward
the jet airliner. The separation between the two clusters was approximately the length of the ends of the “V”
when I first saw it and when it reached the point direct east of me..
These objects continued moving due north and at some point would intersect the path of the jet airliner –
either In front of it or behind it – at least one or the other of the now two separate circular tightly packed
clusters. The jet airliner continued NE. The two clusters were moving toward the rear quarter of the plane and
I was sure one of the cluster would intersect and pass over the plane either above it or below it and that would
give me some idea of their relative size and altitude. As the two clusters moved toward the rear quarter of the
plane, probably at about a 45 degree angle if a passenger on the plane were looking back over the plane’s
horizontal tail assembly. As both clusters approached the plane and reached a point fairly close, both clusters
simultaneously blinked invisible – as if the simultaneously and instantly turned on some kind of “cloaking”
effect that rendered them invisible. Neither cluster passed over or under the plane. They just suddenly turned
invisible. The jet airliner continued it NE heading, the pilot or crew or passengers, unaware that a large cluster
of rectangular objects had nearly intercepted it.
When I arrived home, about a half mile from where this sighting occurred, I looked in the White Pages and
found two listings for UFO reporting. The first one I called rang with no answer. The second one I called, UFO
Watch I think was the name, located in Fountain Hills east of Scottsdale. The man I talked to said it was
extremely unusual to see rectangular objects and even more unusual to see multiple rectangular objects. He
said the complex coordinated maneuvers I described the objects performing would not be possible from any
current technology he was aware of. The U.S. Air Force didn’t have anything capable of such a complicated,
coordinated maneuver and they certainly would not perform something as complicated as the circular spin
and tight formation clustering over a densely populated city such as Phoenix. He told me to make a note of
what I had seen and leave it at that. He said no one would believe me. I told him that I had two thoughts. One
was that this was the first UFO sighting I had ever experienced and couldn’t believe that it occurred over a
metropolitan area. I thought UFO sightings usually were seen over remote, rural areas. And second, that this
occurred in the early evening and surely I wasn’t the only one who had witnessed it. People would be out
playing tennis or shooting baskets or doing other outdoor activities and would have seen the same “V”
formation and the maneuvers that I had seen. I watched the news the next couple of days and never heard
any report of such a sighting or similar UFO report. I find it hard to believe that I was the only one who
witnessed this unusual event. There was a different sighting reported over Phoenix of some kind of unusual
“lights” but they were moving in the opposite direction, from what I have heard, moving from north to south. I
told the man in Fountain Hills that I was sure that if I went out and purchased some video or photography
equipment that it was unlikely that I would encounter such an unusual display of UFO mass coordinated
maneuvers in the rest of my lifetime. I probably would be wasting my time expecting to see such a sighting
again and hoping to record it on videotape or on photographic film. But what I had witnessed spanned about
ten minutes at the most, maybe not that long. The objects were not moving very fast, no faster than the jet
airliner. If I move my hand to trace the movement of the objects, the time lapse is more like one or two
minutes, possibly less than one minute. When I first saw the “V” formation, it was about halfway between the
hor! izon to the SE and zenith looking due East. This is the first time I have ever given a written report of that
sighting. I have told family and friends what I saw. Each time a movie started showing the Paramount
Pictures-Gulf & Western stars spinning in a circle, I would mention that’s what I saw those UFO objects do as
they moved out of the “V” formation.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. However, we assume that he
describes here the "Phoenix Lights" event, of March 13, 1997, so we have changed the date above, in order
to reflect that fact. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 22:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97 22:00)
Reported: 8/5/2006 8:43:39 AM 08:43
Posted: 10/30/2006
Location: Tucson, AZ
Shape: Light
Duration:10 mins?
We saw unidentified lights that didn't blink or make noise and moved very, very quickly.
It was late at night as my friends and I were driving home from a school event. We lived in North Tucson and
my friend's house was in a pretty undeveloped area, so it was very dark out. I was riding in the front
passenger seat when I looked out the window and saw bizarre lights in the sky, toward the north. I pointed
this out to my friends and we pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road to watch. It was a formation of 4
bright white lights, they were in a crescent shape and they didn't blink or move. We had no clue what we were
seeing; as we got out of the vehicle to look further, the formation suddenly changed shape in one very fluid
motion to where the lights were in a very large triangular shape, the fourth of the lights down next to the
bottom right corner of the triangle. The lights were still white, we didn't hear any sounds and they didn't blink.
After a few moments the formation shape changed once again, the lights moved into a straight line and
CHANGED COLOR from white to red. They then started moving in a line very quickly in a south-west
direction (I think), before suddenly all disappearing at once. We were pretty scared at this point, we jumped
back in the car and peeled out toward home!!
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 22:00 (Entered as : 03/13/1997 22:00)
Reported: 6/27/2005 7:23:32 PM 19:23
Posted: 7/5/2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape: Other
Duration:30 minutes
This was real, and not flares!
It was the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997. I was living in an apartment in Phoenix Arizona at the time and
had some friends over that night. We all went outside and I noticed several lights in the sky over Phoenix.
Soon my friends and I were all staring at these lights in the sky. There was no noise at all coming from these
lights. They were yellowish-orange in color. As I focused my eyes on the lights I could make out the shapes of
actual solid craft in the sky. It wasn’t one large craft, it was several craft which made a large triangle shape,
then a large oval shape! My friends also could see the shape of these craft in the sky. These craft would
move up and down, and left to right but didn’t move all that much. They didn’t shoot across the sky or
anything like that. But I could see the shape of these craft in the sky. This lasted for about 30 minutes and the
lights turned off and the craft disappeared. I have spent 8 years in the Army and I know what flares look like
and how they act. These were not flares. I can say this with confidence. The U.S. Government stone walled
the people of Phoenix. Thousands of people had to have witnessed this event that night.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain anonymous. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 22:00 (Entered as : 03/15/1997 22:00)
Reported: 4/14/2005 11:27:47 PM 23:27
Posted: 4/16/2005
Location: Casa Grande, AZ
Shape: Formation
Duration:8 seconds
Phoenix lights witnessed in Casa Grande, AZ
On this night I was riding in the backseat of my friends car, he was driving and his wife was in the passenger
seat. We were heading out of town to his house travelling west on HWY 87. My friend suddenly pointed out of
the front window and shouted, "look" or something to that effect. I leaned forward in my seat and all 3 of us
witnessed lights in the sky.
It was a row of lights about five across. They appeared to be very close, the windows were down and we
heard no sound. I did not have much time to consider what they were before this happened: each light, one at
a time in order went out, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and in the same timing/rythm all five came on together, stayed for a beat
longer and then all five blanked out at the same time. We saw no more, heard nothing, the lights did not fly
away or appear to have moved about. They just went out.
In Casa Grande, on this road in particular, there is nothing to obstruct the view of the sky. No streetlights, no
tall trees, and no hills or mountains. It is flat.
I refueled helicopters at Fort Hood, Texas and it did not appear to be anything that I have seen before.
Furthermore there would have to be five helicopters together generating lots of noise and hovering very, very
close togther or a LARGE helo with five landing lights.
This did happen at the same time that the Phoenix lights appeared. I am certain that this was a part of that
occurence.
((NUFORC Note: We have amended the date above to March 13, 1997, which was the date of the "Phoenix
Lights" sighting over Arizona. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 22:05
Reported: 1/22/2008 11:42:29 AM 11:42
Posted: 2/14/2008
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Shape:
Duration:
I have just watched UFO over Phoenix on the discovery channel. I have seen the program several times,
however this time while watching with my entire family we noticed what looks like a small air craft with its
strobes on flying from left to right in front of the unknown lights.
We were wondering why no one on the program mentioned this or if they even noticed it. It is hard to see.
Maybe its worth looking into.
Thanks
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
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Occurred : 3/13/1997 00:00 (Entered as : 03/13/97)
Reported: 3/13/2002 1:16:38 PM 13:16
Posted: 3/21/2003
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration::40 minutes
2002 submission of March 13th mass UFO sightings over Phoenix
At 2220 hours, Arizona time, myself and 3 oter witnesses sighted what we initially thought was an inbound
formation of airplanes in the vicinity of Cave Creek, AZ. Even initially, it was an exciting event. This was a
huge object. Following a precise course and maintaining an exact altitude, this craft intercepted Scottsdale
Road, made good a southerly heading until approximately Indian School road, turned over Sky Harbor Airport
and eventually disappeared in the vicinity of "South Mountain." As the craft approached, we began to
eliminate what it wasn't. Not airplanes, helicopters, blimps etc. It's speed was estimated at 40--50 mph. It was
titally silent. It featured large amber lights on the leading edge with some smaller lights underneath, some on
the side (left from our vantage point) and some visible aft. As it passed 90 degrees and aprx 1 1/2 mile, we
thought we could see substance to it, i.e, blocking out lights behind it but transparent at the same time. I
estimated it's altitude to be 10,000 feet at the iniitial contact, roughly the same altitude as inbound air traffic
bound for PHX... as it passed, the lower portion of the craft was an estimated 200 feet from the ground. Note:
There was nothing to compare this machine to, so size, etc. could be quite different. I am a retired airline pilot,
have flown for 40+ years, have flown everything from the J-3 Cub to the 747. I retired as a 727 Captain for
one of the big 4. I have never seen anything like this - not even close. The assertion that this craft was flares
is a pathetic attempt at coverinvg up the truth. I have no idea what it was, but definitely know what it was not.
Flares do not maintain altitude, nor navigate a precise course. The sighting/s are well known at this point, and
have been the subject of many TV documentaries, etc. Yet, no word is forthcoming. The paripherial events
surrounding the sightings are nothing less than erie. Unfortunately, this and other events are falling into
obscurity because we as a society! are all owing that to happen. I am happy to discss this with anyone. Be
advised I am NOT seeking any publicity, etc. Since reporting this sighting, long time friends look at me with a
jaundiced eye, strangers who hear the story often think I'm crazy, etc. On this the 5th anniversary of the
Phoenix Lights the image is fresh in my mind. This did happen. Had the comet not been in the skies that
evening, I doubt we would have seen it.
((NUFORC Note: This report is submitted by a retired airline captain, who had accumulated 13,700 hours of
flight time at the time of his sighting, and who is well known to NUFORC. He is well known in the Phoenix
area, and he has been one of the more visible, and vocal, witnesses with regard to the dramatic "Phoenix
Lights" sighting of 13MR97. PD))