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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Fife is cracking. His father was cracked.
I'm pretty sure those lights were proven to be military parachute flares.
That's just what THEY want you to believe...
;-)
ROFLMAO!!!
Tucson astronomer and retired Air Force pilot James McGaha said he investigated two separate sightings over Phoenix that March night and traced them both to A-10 aircraft flying in formation at high altitude.
McGaha said he talked to an amateur astronomer who observed the A-10s and to the National Guard unit that flew them.
"It was clearly aircraft in formation, flying at two different times and then dropping flares and it's clear to any rational person that's what it was," McGaha said Thursday.
McGaha said Symington "is not a trained observer and what he feels in his gut doesn't make any difference."
...I see you don't read DEBKA.
The world is ending! We're all gonna die! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
For your amusement ping. :)
What the hey it was good enough for the peanut farmer.
I remember a documentary some years ago that had the usual video of the lights.
They overlayed a daylight pic of the mountain range. No question the lights were flares on the other side of the range.
OTOH, a lot of people claim to have seen lighted triangles or boomerang shaped objects overhead.
I'm a skeptic on the Phoenix lights.
I've never understood this panic thing. What exactly was he afraid folks would do?
Nice tubes.
So, if you don't believe McGaha your irrational.
...McGaha said Symington "is not a trained observer...
Exactly how does one become a "trained observer"? I never saw Observer 101 in my college course catalog.
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