Phoenix Lights — Mass Witnessed V-Formation

FAA tracking data and Arizona National Guard communications, released in the 2026 archive context, document one of the most widely witnessed UAP events in recorded history. On March 13, 1997, a large V-shaped formation of lights moved from Henderson, Nevada across the length of Arizona over approximately three hours. Witnesses including sitting Arizona Governor Fife Symington, commercial pilots, and law enforcement described an enormous craft 'the size of multiple football fields' moving silently at low altitude. The FAA records include radar tracks that do not correspond to any filed flight plan for the formation event. A secondary event later that evening involved widely photographed stationary lights over Phoenix; the Air Force attributed those to A-10 Thunderbolt II flares over the Barry M. Goldwater Range. The formation event — the first pass — received no official explanation in subsequent Air Force Project Blue Book successor reviews. Governor Symington, who publicly dismissed the sightings in 1997, later publicly stated he personally witnessed the formation and described it as 'otherworldly.' The 2026 FAA archive release includes previously unprocessed radar overlay maps from Sky Harbor approach control.