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Phoenix Lights was an ET spacecraft, former AZ Gov. says

Not sure if this was posted here already.

A 10/9/97 letter from Sen. John McCain to a constituent about the so-called Phoenix Lights is making the Internet rounds (at http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2008/02/senator-john-mccain-tasked-air-force-to.html) just in time for next month’s anniversary commemoration in Scottsdale. But to the amazement of Dr. Lynn Kitei, no one has bothered to press the de facto Republican presidential nominee for an updated response.

Kitei is a Phoenix physician whose world view went sideways when an apparent V-shaped UFO surprised untold numbers of Arizonans on the evening of March 13, 1997. Kitei had seen and even photographed strange lights in the night sky two months earlier, but the mass sightings on that date ultimately drew her into the limelight as a lead investigator.

Kitei’s work wound up in a documentary and a book by the same name, “The Phoenix Lights.” On the 11th anniversary of that event, she’ll be unveiling an expanded version of the doc that features, among other things, a commercial airline pilot eyewitness and a 911 dispatcher who’ll reportedly reveal how police helicopters were involved in the drama.

Not unlike the Stephenville, Tex., UFO incident on Jan. 8 this year, the military initially denied it had planes in the air that night. But McCain reported to a letter writer that an official at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson assured him the lights were flares dropped by A-10s from a visiting Maryland National Guard unit, from an altitude of 15,000 feet, from roughly 9:30 to 10 p.m.

But according to Kitei’s timeline, people reported seeing the UFO from as early as 5 p.m. to as late as 2 a.m., with the bulk of the sightings rolling in from 8:30 p.m. to 9:40 p.m.

The story has morphed since then, most notably with the testimony of former Arizona guv Fife Symington. In 1997, when he was still in office, Symington ridiculed the reports. Last year, he reversed himself, claimed he was an eyewitness to something “enormous and inexplicable” (see http://www.freedomofinfo.org/news/symington-story.pdf), and flatly discounted the military flares explanation.

Symington has since become a public advocate for government disclosure; in November, he introduced an international cast of likeminded pilots and aviation authorities to the National Press Club in Washington.

The media has given McCain a pass on this whopper of a national security issue that asserted itself in his own back yard. Fox News’ Chris Wallace playfully asked McCain in November if he’d ever seen a UFO during his Navy pilot career (“I can’t say that I did, but I kept looking all the time”), but clearly the MSM doesn’t have the chops for an extended conversation.

“I’m really surprised that nobody has pinned him down, or even tried to,” says Kitei. “If anything, interest in what happened has just been growing and growing. Too many people have seen and are seeing things.”

Maybe, like Symington, McCain will come out of the closet once his political career is over. In the meantime, just for the hell of it, you can reach the Senator at: John McCain 2008, P.O. Box 16118, Arlington, VA 22215, 703-418-2008.

(Source: http://www.heraldtribune.com)

A 10/9/97 letter from Sen. John McCain to a constituent about the so-called Phoenix Lights is making the Internet rounds (at http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2008/02/senator-john-mccain-tasked-air-force-to.html) just in time for next month’s anniversary commemoration in Scottsdale. But to the amazement of Dr. Lynn Kitei, no one has bothered to press the de facto Republican presidential nominee for an updated response.

Kitei is a Phoenix physician whose world view went sideways when an apparent V-shaped UFO surprised untold numbers of Arizonans on the evening of March 13, 1997. Kitei had seen and even photographed strange lights in the night sky two months earlier, but the mass sightings on that date ultimately drew her into the limelight as a lead investigator.

Kitei’s work wound up in a documentary and a book by the same name, “The Phoenix Lights.” On the 11th anniversary of that event, she’ll be unveiling an expanded version of the doc that features, among other things, a commercial airline pilot eyewitness and a 911 dispatcher who’ll reportedly reveal how police helicopters were involved in the drama.

Not unlike the Stephenville, Tex., UFO incident on Jan. 8 this year, the military initially denied it had planes in the air that night. But McCain reported to a letter writer that an official at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson assured him the lights were flares dropped by A-10s from a visiting Maryland National Guard unit, from an altitude of 15,000 feet, from roughly 9:30 to 10 p.m.

But according to Kitei’s timeline, people reported seeing the UFO from as early as 5 p.m. to as late as 2 a.m., with the bulk of the sightings rolling in from 8:30 p.m. to 9:40 p.m.

The story has morphed since then, most notably with the testimony of former Arizona guv Fife Symington. In 1997, when he was still in office, Symington ridiculed the reports. Last year, he reversed himself, claimed he was an eyewitness to something “enormous and inexplicable” (see http://www.freedomofinfo.org/news/symington-story.pdf), and flatly discounted the military flares explanation.

Symington has since become a public advocate for government disclosure; in November, he introduced an international cast of likeminded pilots and aviation authorities to the National Press Club in Washington.

The media has given McCain a pass on this whopper of a national security issue that asserted itself in his own back yard. Fox News’ Chris Wallace playfully asked McCain in November if he’d ever seen a UFO during his Navy pilot career (“I can’t say that I did, but I kept looking all the time”), but clearly the MSM doesn’t have the chops for an extended conversation.

“I’m really surprised that nobody has pinned him down, or even tried to,” says Kitei. “If anything, interest in what happened has just been growing and growing. Too many people have seen and are seeing things.”

Maybe, like Symington, McCain will come out of the closet once his political career is over. In the meantime, just for the hell of it, you can reach the Senator at: John McCain 2008, P.O. Box 16118, Arlington, VA 22215, 703-418-2008.

(Source: http://www.heraldtribune.com)

Gary Tuchman (CNN) on UFO debate at National Press Club

This is probably old news for some of you, but worth reposting, due to the “Unusual Reporting Quality by CNN”.

Gary Tuchman from CNN reports about the UFO debate which took place at the National Press Club on November 12th, 2007.

Coalition for freedom of information – Transcript of the latest NPC with Fife Symington

BREAKING NEWS!

Nov. 12: Former Arizona Governor Fife Symington moderated a distinguished panel of former high-ranking government, aviation,
and military officials from seven countries who discussed encounters with UFOs and official investigations. The event was organized by filmmaker James Fox and journalist Leslie Kean of CFi.

Read transcripts of the press conference
and view additional information

International Declaration to the U.S. Government
Requesting the re-opening of the U.S. Government’s investigation
into UFOs

Read the declaration here

(Source: http://www.freedomofinfo.org/)

Former Arizona gov in Washington to talk UFOs

Former Arizona gov in Washington to talk UFOs on national stage.

http://www.azfamily.com/video/localnews-index.html?nvid=192242&shu=1

And I would like to quote him :

Nothing to fear, it’s absolutely fascinating

Group urges U.S. to re-open UFO investigations

CTV.ca News Staff

The Coalition for Freedom of Information is calling on the U.S. government to re-open investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects that it shut down 30 years ago.

James Fox, producer and director of the documentary film “Out of the Blue” joined forces with the Coalition to organize the panel.

“We want to demonstrate that the phenomenon is real and that it’s happening world wide and we want the United States government to start an international exchange of information (and) dialogue on an official level, openly,” he told CTV.ca

Using previously classified documents, the group intends to discuss many well-documented cases, including two already investigated by the American government.

The two cases include a Peruvian Air Force pilot who fired several rounds at a craft that was not affected and an Iranian pilot who claims his control panel became inoperable when he attempted to fire on a UFO.

Both pilots will speak publicly about the events on Monday at a panel discussion in Washington D.C., moderated by Arizona Governor Fife Symington.

The panel will include former government, aviation and military officials, with representatives from France, England, Belgium, Chile, Peru, Iran and the U.S. It will call for the U.S. government to re-open its UFO investigations.

The panelists have all either sighted UFOs or conducted an official investigation.

Symington himself claims that he had a sighting 10 years ago during his second term as governor. He said he witnessed a massive object navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona.

A pilot and former Air Force officer, Symington said the craft didn’t resemble any man-made object he’d ever seen.

“It was truly breathtaking,” Symington told CNN on Friday. “I was absolutely stunned because I was turning to the west looking for the distant Phoenix Lights.”

The governor said that the incident was witnessed by hundreds of concerned Arizona residents who called his office.

The U.S. Air Force eventually claimed responsibility, admitting that they’d dropped flares. However Symington said that what he saw was something else, as flares don’t fly in formation.

There are many high-ranking officials who share Symington’s concerns, and they want the U.S. government to stop telling the public that all UFOs can be explained in down-to-earth terms.

“I would now like to set the record straight,” Symington said. “My office did make inquiries as to the origin of the craft, but to this day they remain unanswered.”

Fox told CTV.ca that they have overwhelming evidence that, although they officially ended decades ago, the U.S. government has continued UFO investigations covertly.

“Several generals are here, and they said that it’s difficult for any military force to disclose information that would suggest they don’t have control, and expose their weaknesses,” he said.

Fox, who is producing a follow-up to his UFO documentary, thinks the outing of such information “would definitely have a unifying effect on all of us, and it would give us the bigger picture of how we fit into the universe. We’re not the only planet with life or the only intelligence in the universe, which in my opinion would be rather depressing.”

(Source: http://www.ctv.ca)

Symington: I saw a UFO in the Arizona sky

Former Arizona Governor Fife Symington will be moderating a November 12 event at the National Press Club where he will discuss the Phoenix Lights incident. He says he will be joined by 14 former high-ranking military and government officials from seven countries who will share evidence from what they call their own UFO experiences and investigations.

(CNN) — In 1997, during my second term as governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality.

I witnessed a massive delta-shaped, craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned because I was turning to the west looking for the distant Phoenix Lights.

To my astonishment this apparition appeared; this dramatically large, very distinctive leading edge with some enormous lights was traveling through the Arizona sky.

As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I’d ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation.

The incident was witnessed by hundreds — if not thousands — of people in Arizona, and my office was besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians.

The growing hysteria intensified when the story broke nationally. I decided to lighten the mood of the state by calling a press conference where my chief of staff arrived in an alien costume. We managed to lessen the sense of panic but, at the same time, upset many of my constituents.

I would now like to set the record straight. I never meant to ridicule anyone. My office did make inquiries as to the origin of the craft, but to this day they remain unanswered.

Eventually the Air Force claimed responsibility stating that they dropped flares.

This is indicative of the attitude from official channels. We get explanations that fly in the face of the facts. Explanations like weather balloons, swamp gas and military flares.

I was never happy with the Air Force’s silly explanation. There might very well have been military flares in the sky that evening, but what I and hundreds of others saw had nothing to do with that.

I now know that I am not alone. There are many high-ranking military, aviation and government officials who share my concerns. While on active duty, they have either witnessed a UFO incident or have conducted an official investigation into UFO cases relevant to aviation safety and national security.

By speaking out with me, these people are putting their reputations on the line. They have fought in wars, guarded top secret weapons arsenals and protected our nation’s skies.

We want the government to stop putting out stories that perpetuate the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth conventional terms. Investigations need to be re-opened, documents need to be unsealed and the idea of an open dialogue can no longer be shunned.

Incidents like these are not going away. About a year ago, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport experienced a UFO event that made national and international headlines.

What I saw in the Arizona sky goes beyond conventional explanations. When it comes to events of this nature that are still completely unsolved, we deserve more openness in government, especially our own.

(Source: http://www.cnn.com)

Former Governor Admits Reality of Phoenix Lights

Governor of Arizona 10 years ago, Fife Symington reveals on CNN that he accepts the reality of the Phoenix Lights phenomena of 13th of March 1997. Back then Fife laughed the event off, and insulted the people that were asking serious questions, by bringing a man in an alien suit to his press conference. On 17th of March 2007, the former governor admits that he lied ten years ago to prevent public panic.

At last a politician that has the guts and decency to admit he has lied to the people!

(Source: http://ufowatcher.blogspot.com)