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Originally Posted by Flacker
I was simply correcting your assumption that because it wasn't over Bruce, it couldn't be flares. My assumption is that while it may not be flares, it is most likely military testing that they aren't going to be forthcoming about, for obvious reasons. You don't think the US military would have been testing drones a decade, or even two decades ago?
And secretive military testing only occurs in publicly defined test areas? They also publish all the times so that the soviets can get all their satellites on target...
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Seems you were the one making an assumption without knowing all the details or the logistics of the environment. The story of flares during the original event wouldn't stand up to reason as the lights were directly over the city, and moved over South Mountain and went all the way over Tucson, before returning. The military does not drop flares over heavily populated cities, and those flares do not maintain formation for hours, traveling hundreds of miles. The decade later, they wouldn't drop flares over mountains and national forest, not in bone dry Arizona.
Bruce [sic] better known as Luke AFB is quite restricted for space and flight corridors because of city expansion. They fly fighters out of Luke (F18 and F16 back then, F16 and F35 today). Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson has an A-10 wing, but it is ridiculous to suggest that they flew to Phoenix and deployed flares over the populated areas of the state capital. Next closest airport with any military presence was Gateway, which used to have a tanker wing and fly trainers, but that was phased out a while ago and is almost exclusively commercial and private traffic. The reason Gateway went the way of the dodo for the military was urban sprawl, and the airport is pretty much completely surrounded by homes and business. The east valley is not a place you go to fly test vehicles of any sort.
If this were a secret drone or experimental aircraft, why would they fly them over public lands, when they have numerous ranges where they can fly them without prying eyes? Why fly them over the Tonto National Forest when you can fly them in restricted airspace of Groom Lake or the Dugway Proving Grounds? If you don't want the public to see your ####, don't fly your #### where the public is going to see it. Just saying.