THE UFO CHRONICLES


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     How can some of these people claim the “Phoenix Lights” case was “fairly well investigated and presented?” Do they understand that no one from MUFON AZ or Sky Watch International made written reports from witnesses? How could a case be examined without written or recorded reports? Both Richard Motzer and Bill Hamilton perceived the “5” 10 PM videos as the “holy grail” and failed to start at the beginning of the first report of unusual activity. By that I mean 8:16 in Paulden, AZ. No one started there. How about 5:30 PM at Sunset Point near Crown King, AZ? No one investigated that as well. And again thru Chino Valley, Prescott, Prescott Valley, Dewey Wickenburg, and well into the northern most part of the Phoenix metro area. No reports. They did not do a fairly good job at all. They did nothing! In fact it was done so poorly, how can these people claim to be researchers at all?

Witnesses in the 8 o’clock hour such as myself, my wife, Tim Ley and his family, Ozma Linderman and her boy friend, Max Saracen and his wife, Stacy Rhoades, none of these people made a written report with any UfO organization—period! So how can this incident claim to be “fairly well investigated?” You have to be kidding! The media didn’t investigate. The police didn’t investigate. The only investigating that was done was the two 10 PM witnesses to the diversionary flare drop. And they both wrote books and failed to share any information. Dr Lynne was hiding in the closet for 6 or 7 years and doesn’t reveal any names of any of the many events that took place that night.

Now for some reason the media and Ufologists have settled on the premise the 2 events happened on the night of March 13, 1997, in the state of Arizona. One, the 8 o’clock events with unexplained sightings of at least 3 profoundly massive V shaped craft, a variety of orbs, a solid black triangle, and reports of a massive disk. Then we have the “diversionary” 10 PM flare drop southwest of the Phoenix area and probably not even in Maricopa County.

But what about the 5:30 PM event near Crown King; what about retired airline captain Trig Johnston’s sighting from northern Scottsdale area at app. 10:20 PM that evening? He claimed the object he and his son witnessed was over a square mile in area! And that he could land his 727 on it! Doesn’t that fit into the so-called investigation?

See, in my opinion, nearly everyone was satisfied with the late night flare drop so much, nothing else mattered. Why investigate? Why start at the beginning? We have video of a wondrous sighting…and 5 of them to boot! The diversion worked perfectly. And nearly everyone fell for it. Besides, if it isn’t on video, it probably didn’t happen, right?

What so many fail to understand is that there are thousands of witnesses in the 8:00 o’clock hour and just a handful to the 10 PM flare drop. The reason is this: the flares had to be ignited around 16,000’ altitude to be seen in the Phoenix metro area. And all 10 PM witnesses shared one thing: mountainside homes and elevated locations. Oh, and one more thing they shared. Five of them shot video of a diversionary high altitude flare drop.