The Phoenix Lights are a series of unidentified lights reported in the skies over Arizona and Nevada on March 13, 1997.
The Phoenix Lights is the name given to a series of lights reported in the skies over Arizona and Nevada on the night of March 13, 1997. Eyewitnesses described two distinct events: a large V-shaped or triangular formation, followed later by lights that appeared stationary near the Phoenix area. Reports spanned a wide area, from Nevada through Phoenix and extending near Tucson, with thousands of people claiming to have seen the lights.
A common official explanation attributes at least part of the event to military aircraft and flares used during a training exercise. Sources link the sightings to Operation Snowbird, a winter training program of the Air National Guard from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. However, some sources describe the V-shaped formation as a phenomenon that remains unexplained.
The event has become one of the most well-known UFO cases in Arizona's history, and it continues to appear in documentaries and anniversary coverage. The existing explanations do not negate the fact that witnesses reported lights, but they also do not prove that it was an extraterrestrial craft or phenomenon.
This is the name given to a series of unidentified lights reported over Arizona and Nevada on March 13, 1997.
Eyewitnesses described a large V-shaped or triangular formation, and later, stationary lights near Phoenix.
A common official explanation attributes at least some of the lights to military aircraft and flares during a training exercise. Other sources describe the V-shaped formation as unexplained.
The reports spanned from Nevada through Phoenix and extending near Tucson.