The Phoenix Lights | Ep. 101

Welcome to another episode of Believing the Bizarre. This week, we finally venture back into the wonderful world of aliens. But first, let’s take a trip to the 90s!

Back in 1997, thousands of folks in Arizona saw what they claimed as a huge object in the night sky – 6000 feet long – with countless lights.

It blocked out the stars and was completely silent as it moved across the sky. Could this be proof of aliens? Or perhaps an unknown military ship? Listen now!

The Phoenix Lights: The Mysterious Lights That Were Spotted In Arizona

Have you ever seen mysterious lights in the sky?

What if you had credible proof of aliens, and it was swept under the rug?

Could you ever look at the sky the same after seeing unexplained lights drift above?

What’s up Bizarros?! This week we dive into the story of the Phoenix Lights.

What Are The Phoneix Lights?

The Phoenix Lights were a phenomenon that occurred on March 13th, 1997. From Approximately 7 pm to 11 pm the lights were seen in the skies over Phoenix Arizona and parts of Nevada The object was also spotted towards the Northern Arizona city of Prescott and Dewy about an hour after the first sighting.

The lights presented over miles in the night sky. They were in the shape of a giant “V”. The object was seen as an outline. This was a massive object. The craft moved southwest towards a valley.

The lights were what appeared to be portlights in the side and behind the giant structure was a blanket of black that blocked out the stars above.

However, this ship was not seen after around 8:30 pm. That’s when the SECOND sightings started to happen. From 10 pm to around 11 pm the new sighting started coming in.

A decidedly different shape of a boomerang was seen coming back across the city of Phoenix. This was a giant object guessed to be around 6,000 feet in length. Like the v shape lights along the side of the shape were seen and then the sky was blacked out beneath it.

Maybe this is the same object but may be spread out from a v to a more elongated boomerang mode. Nearby air traffic controllers claim to physically see the lights but were unable to pick up anything on their radar.

There were around 700 hundred separate eyewitness scouts to the Phoenix lights.

But according to MUFON, it was more likely the sightings were in the 1000s.

Months later governor Fife Symington was on his second term when he held a press conference to address the aerial incident.

He said in his conference that they needed to arrest the people responsible for the lights. And at that moment a tall man in a foil suit came onto the stage with giant alien hands and a fake alien head. It looked like a tall grey. It was his chief of staff in a mask.

However, about 10 years later he talked to CNN about the Arizona lights in the night sky.

He told CNN in 2007 that he was told to cover up the Phoenix UFO event even though he was actually really unsettled by the situation.

He said “I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I’d ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people.”I don’t know why people would ridicule it.”

He also said “enormous. It just felt other-worldly. In your gut, you could just tell it was other-worldly.”

Eyewitness Accounts Of The Phoenix UFO

Alien lights eyewitness account.

“I was skating with my friends at these overflow banks that made a pretty awesome skate spot right next to the 101, a 1/4 mi east of 51st ave in northern Phoenix. After skating for a while, the 8 of us had a seat to relax before we took off. A friend of mine noticed the lights as they were lighting up. We sat there, smoking cigarettes and staring as they lit up and faded out.

The only audible sounds came from the ambiance nature in our surroundings, and the occasional car passing by on the 101. We heard no motors or aircraft sounds. Slowly, they faded out, and we went back to drop off our ATVs. As soon as we got back in and went to our “clubhouse” (one of our friends had a single mom who really was never around), we saw it all over the news! We couldn’t shut up about it after.

It wasn’t really “otherworldly,” per se, but it was pretty weird. Phoenix has tons of desert and a very important Air Force base. We all had our speculations of what went down.

It was almost overhead of us. More like around south of our position at around 20 degrees shy of looking straight upwards. The lights looked like points of light. No halos, but definitely a very slight twinkle, as if there was hot air moving in front. They lit up 1 by 1 and were stationary in the sky in subtly bluish-white light. They faded in and stayed for a few minutes, then out as fast as they could right before you can stop saying that they did so “slowly.” Kind of like a 2-second fade-out. No audible sounds could be heard from that direction.

One witness from Prescott who wished to be known only as J.R. said he watched a boomerang-shaped object glide over Granite Mountain, and it was at least a mile wide. He said there’s no way it was from this planet.

“We don’t have anything that big,” he said. “It was totally silent. I’ve never seen anything even close to the colors from the exhaust that propelled that thing. It was as big as downtown Prescott and completely blocked out the stars.”

Phoenix Arizona UFO Sightings From Quora

I have never talked about the lights until just recently. A friend of mine who wasn’t here 20 years ago asked me about the lights seen in several Southwest states that March evening in 1997. The lights made national news by morning with our own Governor making jokes about UFOs as the explanation of flares from nearby Barry Goldwater Range came from the Air Force.

I have lived in Arizona for all of my 52 years and have seen the nighttime Phoenix sky at its most beautiful. That night was one of those nights but those lights weren’t stars, planes, weather balloons, or flares. I can say now with confidence what I watched that night I have never seen before or since and doubt I ever will see again.

Lights In Phoenix AZ Eyewitness Account

I had this great idea after our second child was born that the city was not where I wanted to raise a family. Pregnant with our third we said goodbye to downtown Phoenix for our new home North of the Valley in Desert Hills. In 1995 there was nothing out there and Del Webb had just started selling lots for a new community.

Anthem was so popular people camped out for premium pieces of land to call home. Desert Hills was spread out a little more as most homes were on an acre plus of horse property.

We knew our neighbors from a comfortable distance and when the weather was beautiful we would get to know each other during nightfall walks. The grown-ups took happy hour outdoors as we would stop along the trail to talk about the rattlesnake, scorpion, or coyote sighting of the day. That was all the excitement we needed.

Cameras and video on a cellphone had yet to be the norm so documenting that evening to memory was all we had. I do remember one neighbor having a video recorder that only caught a glimpse of the experience you had to see with your own eyes to appreciate.

Then there was that feeling that I will never forget of restlessness and calm amazement in the air in an unusually silent night. No noise came from the bright formation that looked like a smooth sloping V to the South of us as the brightness of each light would vary but never go out.

They were communicating.

Who or what “they” were or why I still today know “they” were in conversation I can’t explain. I can’t tell you what my own husband thought of what we were watching or what our happy hour crowd talked about that evening as we took in the view.

All I remember is the lights were there and after what seemed like hours later they were out. Out like someone flipped a switch off. We never turned on the news or called the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The next morning as we watched the local morning news I didn’t pay too much attention because I was there. I didn’t need an explanation.

We didn’t love the country life. I hated every minute away from my city and we moved back to downtown Phoenix later that year. The night of the light show was never forgotten but it was never talked about either until now and I don’t think I’ll share this again.

What  Are Some Theories About The Lights In Phoenix Sky?

Mass Hysteria Psychology

Mass hysteria started to be taken as an actual event when one of the first recorded records of it was written down. In France, during mid-evil times there was an outbreak of dancing people would stop and dance. It happened for years, no one could control themselves, then all of the sudden it was over. There are still modern-day events that cause mass hysteria like sheep shock or environmental events.

Was the Phoenix lights one such event?

Could Valley Fever Explain The Lights In Phoenix Sky?

Valley fever is a disease found commonly in the southwestern United States. It is a fungus that infects the host. It gives them a cough, fever, and tiredness. Also possible hallucinations. Valley fever is spread through the dirt when disturbed it can also pass through the air.

Was the sighting a mass hallucination from valley fever?

Could The Government Be Responsible For The Downtown Phoenix Lights?

The Air Force denied any involvement at first, but when the public became insistent on the fact that they saw “something” the Air Force put out a statement saying the lights were flairs dropped by A- 10s during a training routine.

Why I don’t think it’s this. Flares don’t explain the stars being blacked out by a shape of a ship. They also don’t explain the spacing of the lights. They were not random. The lights didn’t fade out they moved in the same pattern. If the wind had moved the flares then they would have spread more randomly.

What Do You Think Of This Arizona Incident? Are The Phoenix Night Lights Man-Made, Or Alien?

What do you think Bizarros?  Is the government behind the lights that hovered over Phoenix in March of 1997?

Could it be we were visited by an otherworldly visitor?

What could cause so many people to see the same lights, even though they were miles apart?

What do you think is behind the Phoenix Lights in 1997?