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UFOs flew over Phoenix in '97, Symington says
ARIZONA DAILY STAR ^ | 3/23/07 | Tom Beal

Posted on 03/23/2007 7:05:34 PM PDT by Pro-Bush

The Arizona Daily Star Published: 03.23.2007

UFOs flew over Phoenix in '97, Symington says By Tom Beal ARIZONA DAILY STAR

"The universe is a big place, and we're conceited to think we're alone." Fife Symington, former Ariz. governor Former Gov. Fife Symington says now that those strange lights that appeared over Phoenix a decade ago were from another world and that he had a close encounter with an alien craft on March 13, 1997.

"I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people," Symington said Thursday. "I don't know why people would ridicule it."

Symington, who was in his second term as governor of Arizona during the Phoenix Lights incident, recently told a UFO investigator making a documentary that he had kept quiet about his personal close encounter because he didn't want to panic the populace. He repeated his story Thursday on CNN, saying the craft he saw was "enormous. It just felt other-worldly. In your gut, you could just tell it was other-worldly."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; pheonix; tinfoilalert; ufo
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To: ilovew

You weren't yet born when UFO sightings and claims of rides in space crafts and abductions by aliens were the rage.


21 posted on 03/23/2007 7:22:03 PM PDT by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: Pro-Bush
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22 posted on 03/23/2007 7:22:24 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Vinnie

I'm a UFO buff, sorta.

There is a show on the History Channel (I think) called UFO Files.
I've seen many of them. One in particular has me going Hmmmmm.
It concerns airline and Air Force pilot's reports.
They play actual pilot to controller tapes.
Pretty spooky.


23 posted on 03/23/2007 7:23:16 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Pro-Bush
They came to warn us about Nukes in the '50's and now they are back to warn us about the Goracle.
24 posted on 03/23/2007 7:26:28 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Vinnie

http://www.flyingrods.com/sitefl/show_cntry_lst.asp?id=1

People in Alabama see more Flying Rods than any other state. I have always found that odd.


25 posted on 03/23/2007 7:29:22 PM PDT by devane617 (Let's take back our country -- get a job in the MSM, or education system. We need you.)
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To: Pro-Bush

A more crediable report was from a police helicopter who encountered a strange object on a night patrol over Phx. It would have to be awfully "strange" for a police helicopter pilot to report a object as something "strange."


26 posted on 03/23/2007 7:29:33 PM PDT by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: onyx
You weren't yet born when UFO sightings and claims of rides in space crafts and abductions by aliens were the rage.

I was, I was.

George Adamski... Read several of his books back in the '50s.

Then there is that nut in Switzerland (?), Billy Meyer. Although I think he is more contemporary.

27 posted on 03/23/2007 7:29:41 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: onyx

Rides in spacecrafts? Hey, that sounds pretty cool. ;) Lol some things I'm really glad I missed...


28 posted on 03/23/2007 7:30:34 PM PDT by ilovew ("Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer." --Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Image hosted by Photobucket.com tooo damn funny...
29 posted on 03/23/2007 7:30:48 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Pro-Bush
Fife's cousin, Stuart, was the first Secretary of the Air Force...appointed in 1947...the same year as the Roswell incident. Coincidence...I don't think so.

</conspiracy theory>

30 posted on 03/23/2007 7:30:50 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (Global Emergency!)
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To: FReepaholic

I don't know what Symington saw. But the Phoenix lights was pretty obviously flares. I lived in Scottsdale at the time and the flares disappeared in a pattern that matched the mountains


31 posted on 03/23/2007 7:31:37 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! If you are military please sign at: http://appealforcourage.org)
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To: Vinnie

You're GOOD. I don't remember any of their names. I do recall the one black guy and his wife making a claims of abduction.


33 posted on 03/23/2007 7:32:44 PM PDT by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: ilovew

Crackpots and attention seekers. They were laughable but they got a lot of media attention.


34 posted on 03/23/2007 7:33:37 PM PDT by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: Vinnie

I have a college friend who is a AF pilot. He says that many experienced pilots have witnessed UFOs. However, these guys keep quiet about it almost universally because they don't want to be take off flight status (permanently).


35 posted on 03/23/2007 7:35:05 PM PDT by rbg81 (1)
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To: bnelson44

The lights were not just seen in Phoenix that night, it was reported from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson within about a 3 hour time frame.


36 posted on 03/23/2007 7:35:36 PM PDT by Pro-Bush (hater)
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To: devane617

Hasn't the flying rods been proved to be artifacts caused by insects flying fast enough to leave a streak on the tape?
I recall seeing a video of flying rods around the mouth of a cave, lots of rods. Strange place for alien craft.


37 posted on 03/23/2007 7:37:35 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: devane617

Nice cups...


38 posted on 03/23/2007 7:37:49 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Pro-Bush
"The universe is a big place, and we're conceited to think we're alone."

Thinking we're probably not alone in the universe is one thing. ....a reasonable view.

Maintaining that a craft from one of these alien civilizations buzzed Phoenix in '97 is quite another.

He repeated his story Thursday on CNN, saying the craft he saw was "enormous."

Uh oh. The fabled Mothership?

39 posted on 03/23/2007 7:38:40 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Vinnie
I've always found UFO and ghost accounts to be like Alice in the looking glass shop. All the shelves were full, but when you looked directly at any one shelf, it was empty, but all the ones around it were packed.

I hear all these stories that sound compelling, but every time I check on an individual story, there's nothing to it.

40 posted on 03/23/2007 7:39:26 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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