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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 23:03:50 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:17:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Phoenix mass 'UFO' sighting

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, UFO UpDates - Toronto wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:21:34 -0400
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: Steven Kaeser <steve@konsulting.com>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Phoenix mass 'UFO' sighting

Hello all,
> ....
> The "flare explanation" does nothing to explain the number of sightings
> that occured along a line that passes through Phoenix, since the flares are
> alleged to remain stationary because of their special parachutes that
> capture the heat and keep them aloft (or slowly floating downward).

And I'd like to know how they're supposed to have stayed in such a smooth,
regular line over several minutes, was it?, even if the "flares" were
released at uniform intervals.  The parachutes would likely open at
somewhat different times, causing them to be at noticeably different
altitudes, and they'd be swaying back and forth, some more than others.
The hot air from each flare would tend to rise vertically, but the
parachute wouldn't always be above the right spot to intercept it due to
its swaying.  So they'd fall at different slowed-down rates, causing their
horizontal alignment to be even more akilter.

And of course, the questions raised by others shouldn't be ignored -- why
were no parachutes found later in Phoenix, why no airplane(s) seen or
heard at the time by those closest to the lights, why would they be doing
their exercises so close to Phoenix, etc.?

Jim Deardorff