SPECIAL EDITION-Phoenix Lights 4/24/08

Monday evening, April 21, approximately 8PM, the citizens of Phoenix Arizona ( Free Photos of Phoenix ) were treated to a spectacular sighting in the sky. Eye-witness reports, photographs and video tapes have been flooding the airwaves, newspapers and National TV. Here is the latest information I have been able to gather as of 7AM today, April 23, 2008.

Strange lights reported in north Valley sky

Lights in the Sky April 21, 2008 azcentral.com

Strange lights reported in north Valley sky
http://www.azcentral.com/community/northvalley/articles/2008/04/21/20080421abrk-strangelights0421.html

Lights in the Sky April 21, 2008 azcentral.com
http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/commphotos/show.php?referer=azcentral&colid=5871&slide_nbr=1&numslides=17&go=1

Local - Phoenix news, breaking news, local news, weather radar, traffic from ABC15 News ABC15.com

Unexplained light formations spotted above Valley - Phoenix news, breaking news, local news, weather radar, traffic from ABC1..

Red Lights Over Phoenix Cause "Phoenix Lights" SightingNational Ledger - UFO Photos, Video: Phoenix Lights Part Two?UFO Alert: The Lights and Military Jets Are Back Over Phoenix

Raw video of red lights over phoenix 4/21/08 (2min 50 sec)

FOXNews.com - Residents Report Mysterious Red Light Sightings in Skies Over Phoenix - Science News Science & Technology Technology NewsHeraldTribune.com - De Void - The mainstream media's lonely UFO web log. - HeraldTribune.comSwamp gas over Phoenix - Herald Tribune

Mysterious lights spotted over north PhoenixAmerican Chronicle Lights over Phoenix: Resident launched balloons with flares?

Here's a link to a google map image of the Sky Harbor Airport, the location from which several ATC controllers viewed the events of Monday evening.Sky Harbor International Airport

UFO hunter expects more "Phoenix lights"
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/04/22/20080422phxlights042208-CR.html

Link between strange lights in the sky?
MyFox Tampa Bay Link between strange lights in the sky?
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6368247&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

This next link is to a ten minute video of the actual
object/objects in the Phoenix sky....
See for yourself what hundreds of witnesses
have reported seeing.
MySpaceTV Videos: UFO sighting Phoenix Az 4/21/08 by David(B-Rad)

Our good friend and field reporter
Huckleberry321
contacted Ian Gregor, a spokesperson for the FAA
here is Mr. Gregor's response:

"Brian, we did receive a number of reports from people who said they saw redlights in the skies on Monday night. Among them were some air trafficcontrollers who were working in the Sky Harbor tower.However, there were no unusual targets or unidentified aircraft on ourradarscopes, so the lights were really a non-issue for the FAA.We don't know where the lights came from. We're not investigating becausethere's really nothing for us to investigate.Regards,Ian GregorCommunications ManagerFAA Western-Pacific Region(310) 725-3580 (office)(424) 731-0215 (cell)

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(My personal opinion)
After I read Mr. Gregor's response,
all I could think was "Are you kidding?"
The FAA receives reports from 'AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS'
(Those highly trained professionals that hundreds of pilots and
passengers trust with their very lives)
But because nothing "unusual" or "unidentified" showed up on
their radarscopes, it is a "non-issue"???
I might be mistaken but I thought that was the exact reason the
FAA needed to investigate. It seems to me that this story is taking off a lot quicker than the original Phoenix lights or even the Chicago airport story.

(from http://news.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=814826 ):

Mystery lights reported over Phoenix
April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:46am
by KTAR Newsroom
People are looking for an explanation for mysterious red lights that appeared in the north Phoenix sky Monday night, reminiscent of a similar event 11 years ago.

"Phoenix Lights from 1997"

Dozens of listeners called News/Talk 92-3 KTAR just after 8 p.m. reporting they were watching the four mystery lights.
"From my position, it looked like they were just hanging, not moving at all," said one man, who called 92-3's "Gaydos After Dark." He said he "absolutely" saw something.
A woman caller said, "It looked like four red tower lights, but it was pretty high up in the air. I called my husband and he said, "Get home, what's wrong with you?"
A man in north Phoenix told CBS-5: "They were about 3,000 feet high, approximately. They looked as though they were kind of hovering or floating from west to east, very slowly. They were up there for 15 or 20 minutes."
Those who saw them said the lights were visible about 13 minutes before moving off to the east.
Deer Valley Airport, which was the closest air field to the lights, had no explanation for them. Neither did Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport or Luke Air Force Base, which said it had no jets flying at the time.
Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said, "A lot of people were reporting seeing some strange lights in the sky around Phoenix last night. Air traffic controllers at the control tower at Sky Harbor saw them. But, we have no idea what they were."
Gregor added, tongue-in-cheek, "It could be aliens coming down to save us from ourselves, you never know. The only thing I do know is if they were coming down, they weren't talking to air traffic controllers."
On March 13, 1997, thousands of people reported seeing a v-shaped formation of lights over north Phoenix. They lasted about three hours. Some described them as forming a carpenter's square.
Among those who saw the lights in 1997 was former Gov. Fife Symington, who initially played down the episode. However, he said last year that he believes the lights came from "crafts of unknown origin" and, " It remains a great mystery."
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http://news.ktar.com/?sid=427009&nid=6 - Former Governor says Yes, He Saw a UFO

As more and more reports come in, I will do my best to keep you up-to-date.

If any of you come across any news regarding the Phoenix event, send it in right away to DGarrison722@aol.com .
And a very special thanks to everyone who contributed to this "SPECIAL EDITION".