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SUBJECT: ARIZONA SIGHTING FILE: UFO3086
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PART 1
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Sent: 01 Dec 92 12:32:00
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From: Steve Gresser
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Topic: Arizona Sighting
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Well, last night it happened - I _FINALLY_ saw something. It is strange
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mostly because there have been, apparantly, some sightings in the area.
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Beyond that, I would have an extremely difficult time accepting a prosaic
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explanation without a recreation of the event. It is, of course, possible.
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Background: I am in Scottsdale, Arizona, which borders (mostly) Phoenix's
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eastern side. I live in the northeastern end of Scottsdale. To the north
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are mountains, and there are houses obscuring portions of the horizon on all
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sides but the west. Several miles west of me is a hospital that has a
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helipad, so I regularly see helicopters. I am grateful that my walls are
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thick because I am nearly directly on the approach path to Phoenix Sky Harbor
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International Airport, and a great number of the aircraft going towards
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Scottsdale Municipal Airpark also fly over my house, or nearly so. Until
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construction begins on the other two houses, I also have a mostly
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unobstructed view to the south, where I can see aircraft coming in for quite
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a long time before they turn to Phoenix. Also, I am a pilot. Suffice to
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say, my wife and I are familiar with aircraft lights, helicopter lights,
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military aircraft lighting on a general scale, stars, meteors (the sky is
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beautiful at night because we are slightly elevated above the smog), and a
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variety of other natural phenomenon that are highly visible over the Phoenix
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valley area.
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Report (well, it's about time!): Last night, at about 10:17pm MST, I was in
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the street in front of my house (E/W double cul-de-sac) w/no cross streets).
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I was going to tell my sister-in-law something in her van, so I walked E
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towards it, turned towards her (N) and spotted something out of the corner of
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my eye (W). I turned west and said, "What's that?", thinking that it was
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another aircraft coming in low with its lights towards me, a common sight but
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still pretty spectacular. She replied, "It's an airplane," which I beleived
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at first, but I still wanted to watch it. Then I realized that the object
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was not lighted like any aircraft I have ever seen, and the lights were
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flashing without a sequence that I could register (rotating beacons, position
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lights, etc. have a pattern to them - usually "flash, flash, flash" or
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"flash-flash, flash-flash, flash-flash" - but this had neither) and the
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lights were brighter than even the closest aircraft that I had seen - but
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VERY sharp. My wife was coming out of the house, and I was moving across the
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street to keep the object in view as it moved northward, closer than the
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hospital. I kept calling her over to see it but she was in the wrong
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position and nearly fell as I moved W down the street to keep in in view. I
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kept thinking, "This has got to be an aircraft!" But it never resolved
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itself into something my mind could recognize. It was pointed maybe thirty
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degrees down in the direction of movement, and it moved more quickly than a
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helicopter, and VERY smooth movement, but not as fast as, say, a low-flying
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jet.
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When my wife finally got it in to view, she said something that I had seen
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but not noticed - "That son-of-a-***** is ROTATING! What is that, Steve?" A
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series of colorful expletives followed. As my wife looked at it, it began to
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turn northeastwards, as if to go behind the mountains, and she decided to
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dash down to the van my sister-in-law was in and chase it. I was about to
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lose sight of it, so I ran down too (by this time I was at the intersection
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of my street), but we never got sight of it again.
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On first sight, it appeared to be an overly-lighted aircraft, kind of long,
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with many lights on it. But the lights looked more light arcing electricity
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than lights, and were exceptionally sharp and bright. This looked nothing
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like a helicopter with a search light, nor like any other lights I've seen on
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an aircraft. My wife and I were both wearing our glasses, and her sister
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does not wear glasses. The incident frightened her enough that she was
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scared to go home down Pima Road (the major N/S access road near the
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hospital). The incident was over by 10:19pm MST. The object appeard almost
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to be in three sections because of the lighting and was slowly rotating (if
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looking from above the object) in a counter-clockwise motion. I estimated
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its altitude to be between 1200 and 1500 feet, but my wife says it was below
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1000 feet. The object itself was not clearly visible to me at all.
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So now I join the ranks of all the kooks and looneys who have seen these
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things before. All I can say is, all the years of dreaming and imagining
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what it would be like do not prepare you for the sense of the object being
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out of place that you get when you actually see one. It just looks ...
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strange.
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I welcome questions regarding this sighting and would appreciate no
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accusations of substance abuse or fabrication. I have had many oportunities
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to fabricate UFO stories before, but as someone who is sincerely interested
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in the phenomenon, I feel that particular action is equatable to rape. I no
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longer smoke, I almost never drink, I do not take drugs (but I inhale
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regularly <G>), and my prescription on my glasses is "plano" for a mild
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astigmatism (I'm not sure what "plano" is, but I bet SOMEONE knows).
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I thank you greatly for your time reading this. I know it is a long story.
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Thank you again,
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Steve
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