‘UFO Hunters’ revisits ‘Phoenix lights’ Dec. 13

December 12, 5:24 PMDenver UFO ExaminerJeff Peckman

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History Channel’s UFO Hunters  will show Arizona Lights on Saturday, December 13 at 5pm MST. Investigators will revisit the historic and still unexplained March 13, 1997 mass sighting of a UFO over Phoenix. This UFO story was part of the inspiration for the Denver ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission.

An estimated 10,000 Arizona residents witnessed this UFO event, more commonly known as the ‘Phoenix Lights’. The UFO Hunters segment is called Arizona Lights because the UFO was actually seen by Arizona residents across the state.

The show features comments by former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, former Phoenix Vice Mayor Frances Emma Barwood, Lynne Kitei, M.D. and Terri Mansfield. Dr. Kitei was the executive producer/director, author and key witness for the award-winning documentary The Phoenix Lights and a book of the same name.

The Arizona UFO story deserves a new investigation because former Gov. Symington originally denied seeing the UFO and even ridiculed the mass experience. But later he admitted to being a witness himself of what he believed to be a craft of extraterrestrial origin. He is now a strong advocate of disclosing long held secret government files on UFO’s.

Attempts at debunking the Arizona UFO sighting with alternative explanations have been dismal failures. The TV program "Anatomy of a Sighting" forcefully made the case for the lights of the boomerang array going behind the mountain, stating "so they must be flares". But the real footage of the boomerang, as well as the subsequent local Fox report, showed clearly that the TV program altered the footage. The real footage showed that the UFO was in close range of the witnesses and could not have been on the other side of the mountain and could not have been flares.
 
Gov. Symington is to be commended for coming forward with the truth. But his initial denial reinforces the need for citizens to be informed in a timely way about UFO and extraterrestrial issues from non-political sources. These sources could include the proposed Denver Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, and the newly proposed White House Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission.

Obama White House transition co-manager John Podesta stated at an Oct. 22, 2002 press conference sponsored by the Sci-Fi Channel, "I think it's time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFO's. It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there. We ought to do it really because it's right. We ought to do it because the American people, quite frankly, can handle the truth. And we ought to do it because it's the law."