Phoenix Lights

Two events the same evening drew thousands of reports: around 8 p.m. a slow, silent V of lights crossed Arizona, which some witnesses described as one huge craft blocking the stars, and around 10 p.m. a line of hovering orange lights appeared south-west of Phoenix and was widely videotaped. The 10 p.m. lights match illumination flares dropped by A-10s over the Barry Goldwater Range, which the Maryland Air National Guard confirmed months later. The 8 p.m. V is attributed to a formation of A-10s from Operation Snowbird flying to Tucson, which an amateur astronomer said he saw as aircraft through a telescope; witnesses who saw a solid shape dispute it, and no video of the 8 p.m. event exists. Governor Fife Symington, who mocked the reports at the time, said in 2007 he had seen the craft.

An A-10 formation at 8 p.m. and LUU-2 flares at 10 p.m.

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  David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122Watch from 3:27:20 on YouTube

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  Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs HearingWatch from 1:47:55 on YouTube

• Unverified3:27:20David FravorUnsourced

  Fravor states the Phoenix Lights mass sighting remains unexplained in his view, and specifically disputes the Air Force's flare-drop explanation on the grounds that flares do not burn long enough to match witness reports.

  the phoenix lights is unexplainable, although i know the air force had said something about it was an a-10 drop in flares, no, i don't think so... flares don't burn that long

  Said in David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122

• Wikipedia: Phoenix Lightsen.wikipedia.org