Phoenix PD Releases 911 Tapes From Recent UFO Sighting!

By Deborah Stocks
abc15.com
5-9-08

     PHOENIX, AZ -- Police have released dozens of 9-1-1 calls tied to an April sighting when hundreds of Valley residents spotted 'mystery lights' in the night sky over Phoenix.

The two CDs released Thursday have 40 to 50 minutes worth of audio from callers who saw the strange lights on April 21 and expressed everything from fear to disbelief.

Investigators now believe the lights were not UFOs, but instead flares attached to helium balloons.

If police find the person(s) responsible, they could be charged with disorderly conduct and public endangerment.

The lights made national headlines as videos shot by Phoenix residents were aired.

They also served as a reminder of the unexplained lights seen over Phoenix 11 years ago.

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Man Admits Launching Flares Monday Night, Says Phoenix Lights Was Something Similar

By BRIAN WEBB
KTVK-TV
4-23-08

      PHOENIX — Many Phoenix-area residents reported seeing mysterious red lights in the sky over the north Valley Monday night. Some said they could be seen for miles, leaving many to wonder what was going on.

Those who saw the four lights said they appeared randomly. Some said the lights made shapes — a straight line, a square and a triangle. The lights reportedly were visible for between 15 and 30 minutes at about 8 p.m.

An area man who does not wish to be identified claims that he was behind the mysterious phenomenon.

He told KTVK-TV that after the sun went down Monday night, he tied road flares to four large helium-filled balloons using fishing line. Then he released the balloons one-by-one, at one-minute intervals.

"Very impressed," the man said. "Very bright, and something I'd never seen before."

According to Deer Valley Airport and air traffic controllers at Phoenix Sky Harbor, no planes were on the radar, although people at both locations reportedly saw the lights.

Luke Air Force Base said it had no operations in the air at the time the lights were seen. NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) also confirmed no activity on its radar Monday night.

Some Valley residents said the lights might have been a UFO.

"It was really close to the star, and when it would go really close, and then go fast far away," said Annie Braslawsce. "It was just unbelievable. I thought it was the coolest thing. It was pretty intense."

The man who claims to have launched the flares said an aircraft did get near the balloon-borne lights. He figures that the atmospheric disturbance left in the plane's wake caused the flares to move in a pattern.

Monday night's sighting comes about a month after the 11th anniversary of the famed Phoenix Lights, when thousands of people reported seeing several lights in a "V" formation hovering over the city. The Air Force eventually said those lights were flares, but not everybody believes that explanation.

The man who said he launched Monday's sky show said he thinks the 1997 Phoenix Lights could indeed have had a similar, terrestrial origin — but that it wasn't his doing.

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Phoenix man: Neighbor Caused Monday's Mysterious Lights

By azcentral.com
4-22-08

     There could be a more down-to-earth explanation behind the strange lights that appeared over Phoenix on Monday night, according to one Phoenix man.

Lino Mailo, 44, said he saw his neighbor launch several helium balloons with flares attached to them from the back porch of his north Phoenix home. Mailo said the balloons took off about 8 p.m., right before the mysterious lights were spotted.

“It's pretty tricky, because the higher the balloons get, the harder it is to tell what they are,” Mailo said.

A helicopter pilot with the Phoenix police department who was flying last night also saw the objects and said they appeared to simply be some flares hanging from helium balloons. Mailo said he has no idea why his neighbor released the balloons, but he regrets not filming the act.

“I feel bad for the people freaking out about this,” Mailo said. “I could've put this whole thing to rest.”

Civilian and military aviation organizations said Tuesday they had idea what caused the lights.

An official with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which monitors the skies for security threats, said Tuesday the organization did not know where the lights came from.

Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said that though air traffic controllers at Sky Harbor Airport witnessed the lights, they do not know the cause. Nothing appeared on radar and Gregor said the FAA will not be investigating.

“There's nothing to look into,” Gregor said.

Several Valley residents reported seeing the lights in the sky on Monday night and Gregor said the FAA received numerous calls. Witnesses said they saw four lights in a square shape that eventually became a triangular shape. The lights were moving to the east and they disappeared one by one.

Phoenix resident Kent Titze and his wife watched the lights from their house near Loop 101 and Cave Creek Road.

“It was something I've never seen before,” Titze said. “Right away I thought ‘UFO'.”

Titze's wife Fran rushed to take pictures of the lights.

“To me it looked like clusters of red lights - like three or five of them in each bundle,” Kent Titze said.

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