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Rant: I found a government document from 1997 that admits they tracked a UFO over Phoenix for 17 minutes
I was digging through old Air Force reports online and found a declassified memo about the Phoenix Lights. It says radar tracked an object moving against the wind for almost 20 minutes before it vanished. Has anyone else seen this file and what do you think it was?
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irisowens3mo ago
Wait, have you actually read the full memo or just the part that got posted online? Because old government docs get taken out of context all the time. Radar glitches were way more common back then, and a 17 minute blip could easily be a flock of birds or some weird weather balloon getting picked up wrong. They declassified it because it's boring, not because it's proof.
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jakewhite3mo ago
Finding that kind of proof must be so validating after all these years. The radar data is the hardest part to argue with, especially when it shows movement that defies normal flight. It makes you wonder what else is still buried in those old files. That memo adds a huge piece to the Phoenix Lights puzzle for sure.
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Seventeen minutes on radar going against the wind" is a solid detail that's hard to write off as a glitch. But I gotta ask, do you know if the memo said anything about multiple radars locking onto it at the same time? That'd be the clincher for me, because a single radar can mess up, but two or three tracking the same spot is way harder to explain away.
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robertcarr3mo ago
Seventeen minutes on radar going against the wind is a long time for a mistake. That memo is the kind of thing people who saw it that night needed to hear back in 97. It's rough when you know you saw something real and everyone just calls you crazy. Finding a paper trail like that has to feel like a bit of justice, even if it's way too late.
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