Phoenix Lights — Mass Sighting Multiple Events 1997

On the evening of March 13, 1997, Arizona experienced one of the largest and most documented mass UAP events in US history. Two distinct phenomena occurred: an enormous V-shaped formation of lights, estimated by witnesses to be over a mile wide, moved from Henderson, Nevada southward through Arizona over the course of several hours, observed by tens of thousands of people across the state from Prescott through Phoenix to Tucson. The formation moved slowly and silently. A separate phenomenon — a cluster of stationary amber lights — appeared over Phoenix later in the evening and was filmed by multiple residents. Arizona Governor Fife Symington held a press conference the following week in which he produced a staffer dressed in an alien costume — widely criticized as mocking the witnesses. A decade later, Symington publicly reversed position, stating that he himself had seen the V-formation from his home and described it as 'otherworldly,' and that he had made inquiries through military channels that produced no satisfactory explanation. Military witnesses from Luke AFB and Luke's F-16 wing declined to comment officially. The Phoenix Lights remain the most witnessed UAP event in US history and became a reference benchmark for mass UAP observation events globally.