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From: RSchatte@aol.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 23:21:39 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 00:49:31 -0400
Subject: Military Takes Blame for UFO Lights

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Subj:    Military Takes Blame for UFO Lights
Date:    97-07-25 22:59:42 EDT
From:    AOL News

.c The Associated Press

      By STEVE ELLIOTT

      PHOENIX (AP) - Military flares - rather than UFOs - might be
behind those mysterious, bright lights that caused such a stir in
Arizona four months ago.

      Visiting jets from the Maryland Air National Guard were using
high-intensity flares over a bombing range near Phoenix the night
of March 13, when many people reported seeing lights, military
officials said Friday.

      The flares would have created quite a light show in southwestern
Arizona, where many people reported seeing the lights in a
boomerang formation. The lights, captured on videotape, created a
media frenzy when the tape aired nationally last month.

      Capt. Drew Sullins, a spokesman for the Maryland Air National
Guard, said eight of its A-10 ground-attack jets were flying
training missions that night over the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force
Range, 60 miles southwest of Phoenix.

      The planes were dropping high-intensity flares from 15,000 feet
to illuminate the target area, Sullins said. The flares fall slowly
by parachute and illuminate a wide area.

      Before returning to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson that
night, the planes dumped all their remaining flares at high
altitude, which would have created what one pilot called ``one hell
of a light show,'' Sullins said.

      But the flare explanation may not solve the mystery. It doesn't
explain sightings that came from northwestern Arizona - up to 200
miles away.

      And Frances Emma Barwood, the Phoenix city councilwoman who's
been pushing for the Air Force to investigate the lights, said the
explanation was just too convenient.

      ``If that is their explanation then they need to do a
re-enactment so people can say that's what they saw or not what
they saw,'' she said.

      AP-NY-07-25-97 2250EDT
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