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Phoenix Lights home videos
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The visual record
Illustrations, recordings and archival references — each with its own provenance. A documented source is a starting point for investigation, not a verdict on its explanation.
The witness's photograph gallery
The gallery covers different dates. Separate stationary-light recordings from moving-formation accounts. Held at the source; linked, not reproduced here.
Lynne Kitei / Phoenix Lights Network ↗Link only — rights with the publisherPhoenix skyline at night
Downtown Phoenix after dark. Location photograph · context — the March 1997 lights were filmed by residents to the south-west of the city and are not in this picture; the recordings remain with their owners and broadcasters.
Alan Stark · 2012 ↗CC BY-SA 2.0Licence terms ↗ABC15 Arizona: the Phoenix Lights, 28 years on
ABC15 Arizona's 2025 retrospective, which replays residents' 13 March 1997 camcorder recordings of the row of lights and interviews witnesses. Broadcaster's own upload; the original home videos remain with their owners. Timecode not marked — the footage runs through the piece.
ABC15 Arizona (KNXV) ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player from the broadcaster's own channel; not relicensedLicence terms ↗American Alchemy · 1:22:03
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:13:23
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedCamcorder recordings made in Phoenix on the evening of 13 March 1997 showing a row of lights above the southern horizon that faded out one by one. Thousands of people also reported a large silent V-shaped formation earlier that evening. The Air Force attributed the filmed lights to flares; witnesses in the corpus reject the flare account.
The recording
| Shot | |
|---|---|
| Shot by | Several Phoenix residents (Mike Krzyston, Tom King and others) with camcorders civilian |
| Released | March 1997 — Local television stations; USA Today national story 1997-06-18 |
| Official status | The Arizona Air National Guard and the US Air Force said the 10 pm lights were LUU-2 flares dropped by A-10 aircraft from the Maryland Air National Guard over the Barry Goldwater Range. |
| Kind | video |
| Where | 33.448, -112.074 approximate |
| Media rights | See each item in the visual record |
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) 28 September 2024
Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) 21 December 2025
On the map
Phoenix Lights home videos, Phoenix. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 1:22:03 The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) ▶
this is the famous Phoenix Lights Phenix light 1997 March 13th in 1997 thousands of people in Phoenix Arizona witnessed a massive v-shaped formation of Lights moving silently across the sky known as the Phoenix Lights
- 0:13:23 Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) ▶
I investigated the Phoenix Lights case and and a lot of the witnesses hate when you say Phoenix Lights. They're like, "Wasn't a bunch of lights. It was a massive craft, you know,
- Phoenix Lights