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The 13 March 1997 Phoenix incident doesn't get a mention in <em>Mirage Men</em>, but this article by a journalist who spent months investigating the case for <em>Readers' Digest</em> raises some valid questions.

The lights certainly belonged to something/s, though I lean towards a misguided, <em>Independence Day</em>-inspired hoax rather than a psyops job. Either option remains a possibility however, while the media storm and trail of blown minds that followed would be an A+ result for whoever was responsible.

<em>People either thought they saw a gigantic vehicle visiting from another world, or else a formation of planes that was behaving oddly. Were there observers in the ‘extraterrestrial craft’ category of witnesses who trained binoculars on the lights that night?  If so, I never found them. Everyone I know of who studied the lights through binoculars came away insisting that the lights were five separate objects that appeared to be planes.</em>

Read the full article <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-27763-Skepticism-Examiner~y2010m2d24-Were-the-1997-Arizona-Lights-a-psychological-warfare-experiment-Part-One" target="_blank">Part one</a> / <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-27763-Skepticism-Examiner~y2010m2d28-Part-Two-Were-the-1997-Arizona-Lights-a-psychological-warfare-experiment?cid=examiner-email" target="_blank">Part Two</a>

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