- I have two items of interest to those
who have followed the story on the Phoenix sightings of March 13.
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- 1) I have finally received the statement
published in Tucson Weekly on those A-10s from Maryland.
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- "Lt. Keith Shepherd, public information
officer at Davis- Monthan Air Force Base, confirms that an eight-plane
squadron of A-10 fighter-bombers from the 175th Fighter Wing, based in
Baltimore, Maryland, landed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base at approximately
8:30 p.m. on March 13, returning from the Phoenix area. The Baltimore
unit was in Arizona to conduct training exercises." and "Shepherd
says an initial check at Davis-Monthan revealed that all of the planes
permanently stationed at the Air Force base had landed before 6 p.m. on
March 13. It was a recent report from a Marana Air National Guard unit
that inspired a deeper look at the records." (Tucson Weekly Vol. 14
No. 21 July 24-30, 1997)
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- When this was published in the Arizona
Republic, some facts got changed including the time of landing. This caused
some skeptics to proclaim that the videos of the Phoenix Lights taken close
to 10 p.m. that night were the flare drops from these A-10s that had landed
an hour-and-a-half earlier! These flare drops, accomplished before 8:30
p.m. on that night, do not account for the horizontally moving formation
of lights seen over Phoenix at around 8:30 p.m. We are back to "unidentifieds".
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- 2) One of the sightings on March 13
was of a formation of amber lights (more than a mile in span) that was
seen by a retired airline pilot, Trig Johnston, at about 10:20 p.m. moving
south above Scottsdale Blvd. A second witness, named Curtis, has now come
forward and given the same description as Trig from a different viewing
location. This second witness claims to have videotaped those moving lights
from his roof. He says that he was going to deliver this tape to City
Councilwoman Frances Barwood after talking to her on the phone. The day
he grabbed the tape to go to the post office with it, he heard a knock
on the door. He says, two men dressed in black suits, black ties, black
business hats and wearing sun glasses were at the door stating they had
come from Barwood's office. They collected the tape, saying they would
deliver it for him. When they went to walk away, one turned asking Curtis
if he had made a copy for himself, and Curtis replied that he did not whereby
the MIB said, "good"! Was Curtis telling the truth about this
incident? We do not know yet. His recounting of the sighting matches
our pilot witness, but the bizarre MIB element has finally reared up on
this case. Why he did not make a copy of this tape is something we cannot
answer at this time.
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- If any MIBs out there have this tape,
we would appreciate a copy please and would also like you to correctly
identify yourself. (FAT CHANCE).
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- Sincerely,
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- Bill Hamilton
Exec Dir
Skywatch International
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