Did You See The Ahwatukee Lights?

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Newspaper Article.

By Allison Hurtado. 

Ahwatukee Foothills News.

Just over a month after the anniversary of the Phoenix Lights some mysterious lights appeared over Ahwatukee Foothills.

I didn’t see the lights myself, but Ahwatukee Foothills resident Laurie Elle did and she did her best to snap photos and video before the lights disappeared.

Laurie said it was Saturday, March 24 when she saw the lights. She was sitting in her front room working on Facebook and getting ready to leave for the night. When she opened her door she saw some strange moving lights near Pecos Road.

The lights were flashing red and moving from west to east in clusters of about 10. Laurie says the lights were very close but they made no noise.

As someone who grew up with a dad in the military and later married an airplane technician, Laurie said she would be someone to recognize an airplane or helicopter and that’s not what this was.

“I just cannot figure it out,” Laurie said. “How could something be so low and so close and make no noise? It was just incredible.”

Laurie wasn’t the only one to see the lights. A posting on ufoworldnews.com tells the story of several orange-red lights seen moving from west to east over Ahwatukee around the same time.

The poster saw six to eight lights in a formation first, then more lights lower on the horizon in no apparent formation moving much quicker.

“In all, I believe I saw approximately 18 lights moving around the sky,” the post said. “What we saw did not seem to fit with anything that any of us had seen before. These lights did not match the videos of the original Phoenix Lights… These objects weren’t following any of the usual airline traffic patterns and did not have the same lights as commercial aircraft. We could see other aircraft coming in to approach Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and other regional airports at the time of this sighting, and these lights were in a very different area, displaying different colors, and behaving very differently.”

I asked the Federal Aviation Association about the lights and Ian Gregor, spokesperson for the FAA, said they had not observed any unusual aircraft in the area.

He didn’t offer any guesses of his own as to what the lights could have been.

Brian Vike, who runs his own blog documenting strange sightings (http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.ca), said so far in his research he hadn’t seen anything about the lights over Ahwatukee on March 24, but that he’s seen a rise in sightings recently.

“I might have something in the inboxes, but I am so swamped with sighting reports it isn’t funny coming from worldwide,” Vike wrote in an email. “Seems we can post anywhere from 10 to well over 20 sighting reports per day.

“So far in 2012, this is for January, February and March, we have posted 1,179 and there is still close to 70 to 80 reports to get to. For some unknown reason, sightings are up over every kind of object you can think of.”

Vike encourages anyone who has seen something to tell him about it through his email, houstonbri7@gmail.com.

So with a rise in sightings worldwide, is there something going on or just more paranoia?

Laurie said if it was something strange flying over Ahwatukee on March 24, it was nothing to be feared.

“It was peaceful,” she said. “If it was them, then they didn’t do anything. They were in a hurry, they were quick, checking things out, and then they were gone, and I just watched. There was nothing scary about it.”

Ahwatukee Foothills News -  https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/

The Newspaper Article - https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/the_valley/ahwatukee/did-you-see-the-ahwatukee-lights/article_36a8c8ae-b88a-56ea-a814-f012cf1c369b.html

Did Close Encounter Light Up Our Skies?

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Newspaper Article.

Forget Roswell - it seems Strines maybe the new Area 51 after claims a UFO was spotted in the sky on Sunday night. Pub-goers at the Royal Oak on Strines Road were mystified by three red lights in a triangular formation slowly moving across the sky at around 9pm.

The lights were also spotted by residents in Romiley and Marple, who wondered whether they were having a close encounter of the third kind.

Jameson Moon, 39, landlord of the Royal Oak and an aviation enthusiast, immediately consulted his radar and discovered the ‘object’ was not registering.

He said: "One of the customers was outside having a cigarette when he saw the lights and we all went outside to have a look.

"The lights were moving very slowly across the sky and they were some distance apart it eventually moved behind a cloud. There is no way it was a plane and it didn’t show up on my radar.

"I was amazed. I have never seen anything like this before and may never seen anything like it again. I am usually a sceptic but after seeing this I am not sure."

Jameson’s mum Grace added: "Everybody in the pub saw it. I think the whole village saw it and we hadn’t had too much to drink."

Christine Smith, 56, from Romiley, added: "My husband and I saw the lights hovering above Marple. They were there for about 15 minutes then disappeared.

"We live under the flight path and it is normally very busy but I have never seen anything like this before."

Brian Vike director of HBCC UFO Research, based in Canada, explained that recent sightings of lights either on their own or in a group have turned out to be Chinese lanterns.

Mr. Vike said: "The lanterns people release are for some kind of festival, weddings or some other event. Or people just playing around maybe hoping to get some type of excitement over something strange happening, when indeed it is nothing to get excited over."

However, UFO expert Nick Pope, who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project, is not convinced that the explanation lies with lanterns and believes the object could have been a large UFO.

He said: "It’s an intriguing image - something extremely interesting has been captured here. While many recent UFO sightings in the UK have been attributable to Chinese lanterns, I’m not convinced this is the explanation here.

"While it’s possible that three Chinese lanterns might briefly end up in a triangular formation, it’s inconceivable that they’d hold such a pattern constantly.

"It seems a very strange coincidence that three lanterns would be snapped in the shape of a perfect triangle. This raises the intriguing possibility that what we’re looking at here is the underside of a triangular-shaped UFO, with lights at each corner. If this is the case, the object is massive.

"The fact that the three lights held the pattern makes it highly likely that we’re dealing with lights on the underside of a single object, as opposed to three separate objects.

"That the object disappeared behing cloud suggests it was vast, as one would expect the cloud base to be at a height of several thousand feet.

"When working at the Ministry of Defence I investigated many sightings of such triangular-shaped craft."

Manchester Evening News - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/

The Newspaper Article - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/did-close-encounter-light-up-our-skies-965881

Did UFOs Cause The Burn Marks On Witnesses Home Kenosha County Wisconsin

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Date:  December 7, 2005

Time:  6:30 p.m.

I adopted a rescued Havanese from a rescue group approximately 3 weeks ago. I sit out with him in the back yard trying to train him to do his duty outside.

About one week ago I saw something going across the sky south to north. It seemed longer then a plane and lights seemed to stretch the length of it. Mostly red lights. What I noticed was the extremely slow pace it went and there was no sound.  

Last night I was sitting facing east in the dark with Nate. I looked up at the stars and noticed nothing but the star in the east that is the brightest right now. Suddenly, and approximately directly under the north star, down a little I saw what appeared to be a string of lights again. No sound.

I would try and describe it as like a string bean or Chestnut tree whip with lights from one end to the other. Not straight, but rather bent back, maybe like a boomerang but with not as much bend, just curved slightly. 

As I looked up another appeared to the right and one to the left behind it. I just looked down at the dog and said "see ya" and went immediately in the house. I tried to get my daughter on the phone and then my son and one neighbor and finally got one to look outside and they saw nothing. I finally had the courage to look and saw nothing. then saw it towards the west almost straight up, as I went to tell the neighbor on the phone about it, I looked again it was gone.

They hover, not fly in any direction. The first and last appearances were separated by about an hour. They do not fly away, they simply disappear. I am hoping there is just something wrong with my eyes, but just had complete eye exam by Dr. (doctor's name removed).

After I went in the house after talking to neighbor the phone ran and all that was there was a noise like muffled helicopter blades, later I thought I heard that outside but figured I was just losing my mind. This morning the television will not go on, will have to check batteries, light in kitchen would not go on, will check bulb.

Curved slightly backwards string of lights and two or three times the size of a plane? No sound, hovers/fly's slow and silent. 

Additional Information:

Okay I finally remembered to take a picture of the burn marks on the garage from November 2005. They are right under the overhang and I cannot think of anything that would be that high up to make them. They have been there for two years - rain snow sleet hail. 

They were there the next morning after the first time I thought I saw the three UFOs.  The light on the wall directly opposite these marks in the house was also blown out, as was the television cable setup and during the evening the phone in the kitchen had rung and you could only hear what sounded like chopper blades whirling.

Thank you to the witness for the really interesting report.

File your UFO sighting to Brian at: brian_vike@telus.net or please use the online Sighting Report Form. 

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Did This Huge Triangular Craft/UFO Black Out My Radio Ancaster Ontario

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Date:  March 13, 2007

Time:  12:35 a.m.

Location of Sighting: Over house on Melanie, Ancaster.

Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: A line of lights on an angle, chevron in appearance.

Full Description of event/sighting: First thing I would like to say is that I was really shaken by what I saw during the early morning of March 13, 2007. This is my birthday. 

I had just dropped off a friend and was on my way home driving on a street called Amberly. I went to stop at a stop sign on Amberly at Melanie. I looked to my left to notice a huge triangular object approximately 240 feet away from me sitting still over a house. 

The UFO was larger than the house. Several lights were noted on the object and all were appearing to be a reddish colour. My car radio went silent. It was as though the object was staring me down. It looked as though it was starting to come toward me. It suddenly moved rapidly up and down, then quickly out of sight. This was not a jet nor helicopter.

It was huge and I could make it out and identify it as being different than a jet or plane, etc.. I was petrified and raced home to notice that a person in another vehicle on the road was motioning me to stop. I believe to talk about what he had just seen as well.  He looked in disbelief.  I was too much in awe to stop and chat about it. I raced home. Once out of the car, I looked every where to see if it was still around. I was really bothered by it all. 

I called a friend and my father woke up a family member to talk about what I had seen. I turned on radio to listen to the local news station and heard nothing about what I had seen. 

At approximately 1:15 a.m. several jets wanting to land at Mount Hope Airport were heard. My house is over a flight path. One jet after the next was heard, and more than usual. It was like they were held back for a period of time until this "whatever" it was left the area. 

I have held back from reporting this until now, because I have had a bit of a time coming to grips with it all. I have done nothing but researched and read about similar happenings. I am now a believer in all of this.

Thank you to the witness for the report.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.