mystery lights over phoenix arizona

UPDATE: Man claims responsibility for Phoenix mystery lights

April 23rd, 2008 @ 10:04am
by Hanna Scott/KTAR and KTAR Newsroom

A Phoenix man says he caused the red light display that mystified thousands of people as it floated across the north Phoenix sky Monday night.

The man, who did not want to be identified, said he used fishing line to attach road flares to helium-filled balloons, then lit the flares and launched them a minute apart from his back yard. He said he believed turbulence created by a passing jet caused the balloons to move around.

Lino Mailo said he saw his next-door neighbor launch the balloons.

``I saw the guy releasing the balloons with the flares on them," Mailo said. ``There is no doubt that they came from here."

He added, ``I don't think it's a cool prank because it can panic people."

Phoenix Police helicopter pilot Bruce Bates, who saw the lights, said the balloons explanation makes sense.

``People say they saw different shapes -- a square, a diamond, an arrow, all these different shapes. Well, that's just the balloons moving around in the wind currents," he said.

Some people will always think the lights were UFOs, Bates said.

``I think people want to believe what they want to believe."

A sky lantern company's web site said skylanterns can last for up to 20 minutes, rise about a mile high and can travel for miles.
http://www.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=814826

mystery lights over phoenix arizona
Tony Toporek was talking with his neighbors in north Phoenix when the lights appeared at about 8 p.m.

He grabbed his video camera and started taping.

Witnesses reported that the lights formed a vertical line, then formed a diamond-shape, followed by a u-shape.

The lights reportedly moved from side to side and upward before disappearing one by one.

Toporek said the last light vanished and then briefly reappeared before disappearing again.
http://www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=ccaef901-51a0-4b49-8df2...

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[tomkat1983]

is there a better copy than videoing the tv ?

[wesawthat]

click 'more info' and try the link within the body of the post.

[BudPeters44]

Remember for those who have not read the bible.its tells us of the last days."cheriots of fire will come from the sky claiming to be our Gods or the ones who made us and put us here.Even though they will not look like us many will fall for this lie and then be decieved to follow them.Satan is real,not a cartoon charactor as we have been programmed to see him as.And Satans are many as they fallow Lucifers hell upon mankind.God is not to be proven to anyone but found from those who seek him.

[narutofoxdemoncell7]

dude i live in az and i remember when they came in 2002 or 2003 it was scary shit!!

[Optimus489]

omfg thats my birthday..:O

[WanderingRiley]

they're back! ahhh! i remember that night. it was freaky and kinda cool. i didn't see the one years before that though. and trust me, it's not helium balloons and crap i did that once it looks nothing like it.

[part2themovie]

We're in a forest reserve called ignorance.

Hoaxers feed on the gullable while skeptics feed on hoaxers. I believe the skeptics are cannibals.

Universal Geographic

[drugsandsolvents]

Yo ill get technical on ya :

Helium ballons and... get this..

CANDLES ! and get this get this .. STRING and wait get this get this . BALSA wood...

out of this world?

BULL shit

[drugsandsolvents]

helium balloons and LEDs

[fastwalkers47]

How mutch time you had waste to make this dumb thing..do you really think you are the only one in your pathetic small world the universe is infinite stop making these dumb flaslight thing and read some books..

[eeveesnoopy]

when u think about it, a ufo is just an object that u dont really no what it is. so for all we no, it could have been a flare, or an alien ship, but we dont no for sure what exactly it is until we find out. until we find out, it may never be an ifo(identified flying object)

[voiceoftheuniverse]

Its good to be sceptical, BUT NOT rude.. thats my thought : )

All the best