The Phoenix Lights Explanation Doesn’t Explain Everything | GITN Condensed

On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across Arizona reported strange lights moving through the night sky.But what became known as the Phoenix Lights may not have been one event.Earlier in the evening, witnesses described a massive V-shaped formation moving silently across Arizona. Some said it appeared to be a single solid object so large that it blocked out the stars as it passed overhead.Later that night, another formation of bright lights appeared southwest of Phoenix.The official explanation for those later lights involved military illumination flares dropped over the Barry M. Goldwater Range. But does that explanation account for everything witnesses reported that night?In this GITN Condensed investigation, we examine the two Phoenix Lights events, the A-10 and flare explanations, eyewitness accounts, amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley's observations, Governor Fife Symington's surprising admission, and the evidence that continues to make March 13, 1997 one of America's most famous UFO mysteries.Were the Phoenix Lights completely explained—or did something else cross Arizona that night?Welcome to the strange side of reality.