WHAT WAS THAT?

In Phoenix, there were unconfirmed reports that phone calls flooded into local police departments, TV and radio stations and even Luke AFB. Citizens wanted to know what they may have seen.

At approximately 10 p.m., another series of lights were seen to the southwest of Phoenix, over one of the mountain ranges that surround the Valley of the Sun.

The lights were southwest of Luke AFB and in the general direction of the Barry M. Goldwater Range, a large training area operated from Luke AFB for aerial gunnery, electronic warfare, tactical maneuvering and air support, equipment and tactics development and other defense activities.

The lights appeared to be military flares.

Some additional reports from the public and researchers alleged that additional lights may have been seen that appeared to be neither the large V-shaped object at approximately 8 p.m. nor the apparent military flares to the southwest at approximately 10 p.m.

What was going on that night?

Because of the apparently large number of witnesses who state they saw a large, solid object, many people seem to conclude that a craft of some kind did fly slowly over the Phoenix area.

Former Arizona governor Fife Symington, who was governor at the time, has come forward on the record and said he saw a very large object that did not appear to be any kind of U.S. aircraft that he was familiar with. Symington is a former Air Force officer and pilot.

As for the apparent military flares that the Air Force later said were from training exercises of a visiting Air National Guard group, it seems to be the case that flares actually were dropped in the area of the Goldwater Range, but possibly further north and nearer metro Phoenix than may be standard operating procedure.

Were the flares a coincidence in timing and location or were they some kind of deception activity to provide disinformation and a cover-up of the alleged boomerang-shaped object? This remains unclear to many researchers and interested people.

If there was a huge object cruising slowly and silently - but very visibly - over Phoenix that evening, what could it have been?

OURS OF THEIRS?

A few answers seem to be possible. It was an advanced U.S. craft of some kind or it was something else. The "something else" could have been a craft from a a foreign country, a private company or group, or from a more exotic and mysterious location - extraterrestrial and/or extra-dimensional.

On the topic of the first option, people have naturally asked that if the U.S. had a huge, secret craft, why would they fly it over Phoenix on a clear and pleasant Arizona early evening?

Since it was first sighted near Henderson, Nevada, and there actually are secret U.S. testing areas in that region for advanced aircraft, this scenario might be worthy of more consideration.

Why would such a U.S. craft (if it was that) be made intentionally visible to a huge American metropolitan region? One of the answers that may come to mind is that it was a test of some kind to see how people would respond to such an incident. Would there be widespread panic? How would the media and local public safety officials handle it?

The same could be said if the object was an extraterrestrial and/or extra-dimensional visiting craft. How would the humans handle it? Would they scramble F-16 fighter jets from their air defense bases?

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