Phoenix
Also: Phoenix Lights
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Phoenix skyline at night
Downtown Phoenix after dark, from the south. Location photograph · context — the lights of 13 March 1997 were seen across the valley and are not in this frame.
Alan Stark · 2012 ↗CC BY-SA 2.0Licence terms ↗James Fox · 1:22:03
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedThe Arizona city over which thousands of people reported a silent V-shaped formation of lights on 13 March 1997. Documentary maker James Fox describes breaking the story, a bank of six lights over Sky Harbor airport, and an object said to span more than a mile; officials later attributed lights to military flares.
Where the pin is
33.4484, -112.0740 approximate
City of Phoenix from public gazetteer; sightings ran along a corridor from the Nevada line to Tucson.
Arizona, United States
What is claimed
Fox recounts that on 13 March 1997 thousands of people in Phoenix witnessed a massive V-shaped formation of lights moving silently, and that officials claimed military flares.
- 1:22:03 The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) · James Fox ▶
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 the phenomenon sparked widespread speculation about UFOs while some officials claimed the lights were military flares
- 1:22:03 The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) · James Fox ▶
Fox says witnesses described the object as over a mile from wing tip to wing tip.
Fox describes a bank of six lights in a triangle over Sky Harbor airport and says he broke the story.
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
- 1:22:03 ▶ James Fox
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 the phenomenon sparked widespread speculation about UFOs while some officials claimed the lights were military flares
- 1:22:03 ▶ James Fox
because it was over a mile from wing tip to wind tip this is the famous Phoenix Lights Phenix light 1997
- 1:23:38 ▶ James Fox Fox describes a bank of six lights in a triangle over Sky Harbor airport and says he…
there's these Bank of Lights six lights in the shape of a triangle going back right over the airport there's a lot there yeah huge so anyway so I break this
- 1:22:03 ▶ James Fox
Named in 13 uploads (automatic name matching, 31 mentions)
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- Did Henry Kissinger Oversee A UFO Crash Retrieval Program? ×1
- Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg ×1
- “My Hospital Operated On An Alien!” -Top Surgeon [Exclusive Interview] ×1
- "I Located A UFO Base In Arizona!" -Ross Coulthart ×1
- “UFO Secrets Are Held By A Global Cabal” (Ft. Steven Greer) ×1
- Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg ×1
On the map
Phoenix, Phoenix Lights home videos. Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- Phoenix — Wikipedia
- 1:22:03 The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) · James Fox ▶
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 the phenomenon sparked widespread speculation about UFOs while some officials claimed the lights were military flares
- 1:22:03 The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) · James Fox ▶
because it was over a mile from wing tip to wind tip this is the famous Phoenix Lights Phenix light 1997