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Originally Posted by troutman
Is this pilot lying?
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Could be, I doubt we'll ever know for certain. I do find it strange that it took 10 years for the guy to come forward, and that Luke didn't mention this earlier. Also, those that live around the base would have quickly made note of that and debunked it earlier. One last thing about the "flare" story that makes no sense, military jets are noisy as hell, especially the wharthog, so for these jets to drop these "flares" without being heard doesn't add up. Something else that kind of blows the theory of a training exercise out of the water is the fact that people in Glendale and Avondale reported the lights as well. Phoenix is east fo those two, and Luke is west. The flight corridor for Luke is over the Estrella range, which is south of the base. It would be like someone living on broadcast hill obvserving something over the Calgary tower, and then the explanation being that the "flares" were dropped over Okotoks by planes that resided in Bragg Creek. I know, I know, don't let little things like geography enter into the equation.
Any how, what I saw was definitely NOT flares from an A10 from Luke, since Luke is on the other side of the city and there are no training reserves near where this took place. So unless the military is dropping flares into the Tonto National Forest, during a fire ban, using super quiet aircraft, I don't think it was flares.