The Phoenix Lights: two events within one famous evening
On March 13, 1997 observers saw an earlier moving formation and a later row of bright lights. The flare explanation for the later display should not automatically be assigned to every earli…
Sightings, declassified records and video analysis.
On March 13, 1997 observers saw an earlier moving formation and a later row of bright lights. The flare explanation for the later display should not automatically be assigned to every earli…
A photograph attributed to spring 1990 became an emblem of the Belgian wave. In July 2011 its maker told RTL-TVI that he had photographed a suspended polystyrene model.
Reports in 1989–1990 prompted an F-16 interception. The military acknowledged a failure to identify the phenomena; radar locks did not establish an extraterrestrial vehicle.
A cargo Boeing crew reported unusual lights. The FAA preserved communications and interviews, attributing an extra ground-radar target to a split return from the aircraft itself.
A single-witness 1981 account investigated by the gendarmerie, GEPAN and laboratories.
Servicemen reported lights in the forest; surviving records distinguish the early account from later additions.
A sequence of observations became famous through footage filmed aboard a freight aircraft.
A US military channel preserved Iranian accounts of a bright object, radar contact and instrument failures. The document establishes the reporting, not an extraterrestrial interpretation.
An Air Force-sponsored investigation collected new cases and revisited older ones; its overall recommendation and individual case analyses operate at different levels.
Two children reported a bright object and four small figures. GEPAN's later reconstruction preserved their memories but did not measure the original event in real time.