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== The 1973 UFO Flap - Phoenix ==

by Mary Alice Bennett

[[Image:Ufoflap.jpg|right|thumb|Did Mary Alice see an object similar to this?]]

It was March 31, 1973 and I was hiking alone in the desert out at Four Peaks Mountain.

The yellow Palo Verde trees were in bloom and I stayed out there to see the sunset before I walked back to the road. By the time I hiked back in, it was dark.

My transistor radio kept me company as I tried to remember where the turn-off parking lot was. After I tuned my radio off suddenly there appeared in front of me about 10 feet away, two bright red lights suspended in the air, they were about the size of softballs.

They burned brightly for a minute and blinked out. I was stunned and fearful. Just when I had decided that they were some kind of tail lights from the highway in the distance, they reappeared, burning like round cherry red sparklers about four feet off the ground.

After they went out again, I stood and waited to see what would happen next. When they turned back on, there were three of them in a triangle. They remained stationary for a moment and then rotated clockwise, returning to their triangular formation. They disappeared again and I waited patiently for whatever was going to occur next. The last time I saw them they burned bright white and seemed larger, and there were just two of them.

This seemed to be the finale and I felt that I was free to leave to find my car. For many years I felt that I had experienced what I was looking for, since I had been on a spiritual quest, but I had no idea what I had seen.

It was not until 13 years later when I saw "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" on television that I realized that the lights were UFO related. There were individual red lights in the movie that followed the craft as it flew over the rise. 
 
Back in 1973, cars had just two taillights. Whenever I see the modern type of triangular red taillights, I remember those lights in the desert. It turned out that there was a UFO flap going on in 1973.

Others have seen anomalous lights out there. I would like to interview the miners up on the right-most peak of Four Peaks Mountain where there is an amethyst mine. I'll bet they've seen some things from up there!


== Credits ==

Special thanks to [[UFO Digest]].


== External Links ==

* [http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0208/phoenix-flap2.html Original UFO Digest Article]


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