Ufos phoenix lights. This is not a series of events, nor is it weather-related. The city of Phoenix lights up nightly with its own unique form of UFO activity—fluorescent flashing light picks up in the western sky, and then 10 seconds later comes a huge explosion on the horizon. These include UFOs, flying saucers, or space ships as they are commonly known. Some people believe that this is aliens coming down to Earth or something similar; some think they are just a lighting effect caused by gas fires from distant construction projects; others think there’s an occasional meteor strike that produces this phenomenon and sometimes causes damage to property and livestock.
The Phoenix Lights first appeared on May 19, 1997. For three nights that week, witnesses saw bright lights in the western sky over Phoenix and surrounding areas at around 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., and 10:30 p.m., just as the sun had fallen below the horizon. The lights were described as diamond-shaped and silent. They moved through the sky at a leisurely pace, but not slowly enough to make them identifiable as civilian aircraft. The movements were too slow to be meteors or space debris reentering the atmosphere, and they were seen by too many people to be any kind of illusion or natural phenomenon.
Some people claimed to have observed the lights as far back as May 24, 1997. The night of May 19th was extremely hot and dry, with almost no humidity at all. People swore that they'd seen the lights and heard a strange noise on May 24th and 25th. Residents in nearby homes reported seeing what seemed like magnesium flares on the horizon. They said that the flares were very bright and floated toward them about 1,000 feet above ground level. They did not come in any particular formation or pattern, but many witnesses reported seeing three beams of light moving from one end of the horizon to another.
In the days following the Phoenix Lights, residents from many nearby communities saw similar lights in their area. These included Fountain Hills, Carefree, Maricopa, and Paradise Valley. Because the lights were so close to one another, witnesses began to suspect that they were not flares from construction or fires. They said that the lights appeared to be brighter than normal city lighting by night and made a constant "whoosh" noise as they passed overhead.
In the early morning hours of May 21st, a local television news station filmed one of these lights moving across the sky at a high rate of speed about 30 miles southeast of Phoenix. The same night, two police officers in nearby Glendale saw the same lights. These were the only two incidents that could be considered "official" observations of the lights.
In the days following the sightings, residents from many communities reported seeing the lights, but they did not appear to be connected together with any more than what was happening by chance in all of those areas at almost exactly the same time. There was no mention of this being reported in other cities for five days after that and local news media began to lose interest in covering it after a month. However, there were many other reports made by people who had seen them farther away from Phoenix who contacted law enforcement officials.
The official response from the military, it was simply flares. However, the Phoenix lights were so bright that at first, they rejected the flares explanation. They began to research the flares theory and discovered that these flares had been seen all over the world over recent days. National Guard members were ordered to search for balloons or aircraft that could have been explaining the lights but found nothing.
Many people in Phoenix are convinced that there was more to this than just a random explanation of bright flares from construction or fires and would like their government to conduct an investigation into this event once and for all. Others simply want it dropped as an unexplained occurrence when there are so many other things they would like addressed more directly by their government.
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