The Phoenix Lights were one of the largest mass UFO sightings ever reported. On March 13, 1997, these lights were seen by thousands of people in the skies above Phoenix, Arizona. The sighting was actually two sightings. The first at about 7:30 PM, were a triangular formation of lights was seen to cross the city. The second sighting, at approximately 10:00 PM, is the one where hundreds of photos and videos recorded a series of stationary lights hovering over Phoenix. Thousands of witnesses reported the event to the local Air Force bases and news stations. Due to these reports, investigators were able to ascertain the path of the lights, coming from the northwest Nevada border in a southeastern direction over Phoenix and Tucson, into Mexico.

The Air Force initially had no comment but later claimed the lights were simply a squad of A-10 Warthog jets dropping flares in formation. This has been confirmed by witnesses,… as having occurred a day or so after the sighting. Witnesses to the event included Arizona Governor Fife Symington, who was in his backyard at home when he claims he saw an immense V-shaped object, moving slowly and silently through the sky, “It was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen.”

According to his estimates, as well as those of several witnesses, the object was incredibly huge, larger than a few football fields, with strange lights. It was so large that it blocked out stars in the sky as it passed overhead. Symington, a former Air Force captain, continued, “I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies,” and, “it was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It remains a great mystery.”