[CaptainCrunch]

would love all the debunkers and non believers out there to tell me what they think the Phoenix Lights were...oh let me guess, they were "flares"

Mitch Stanley's account through his 60x telescope

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...12.html?&wired

Flares caused the second sighting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix...and_skepticism

The second event has been more thoroughly covered by the media, due in part to the military's backing of the explanation. The USAF explained the second event as slow falling, long burning flares dropped by an A-10 Warthog aircraft on a training exercise over Luke Air Force Base. An investigation by Luke AFB itself also came to this conclusion and declared the case solved.[23]
Air National Guard pilot, Lt. Col. Ed Jones, responding to a March 2007 media query, confirmed that he had flown one of the aircraft in the formation that dropped flares on the night in question.[23] The squadron to which he belonged was in fact in Arizona on a training exercise at the time, according to the Maryland Air National Guard. A history of the Maryland Air National Guard published in 2000 previously asserted that the squadron, the 104th Fighter Squadron, was responsible for the incident.[24] The first reports that members of the Maryland Air National Guard were responsible for the incident were published in The Arizona Republic newspaper in July 1997.[25]
Military flares[26][27] such as these can be seen from hundreds of miles with correct environmental conditions.[1] Later comparisons with known military flare drops were reported on local television stations, showing similarities between the known military flare drops and the Phoenix Lights[2] An analysis of the luminosity of LUU-2B/B illumination flares, the type which would have been in use by A-10 aircraft at the time, determined that the luminosity of such flares at a range of approximately 50–70 miles would fall well within the range of the lights viewed from Phoenix. However, this was not brought forward until July of 1997, and the flares were reportedly dropped before the sightings took place.[22]