From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Video at the site - while it looks like lights flying in formation the clip
isn't long enough - dang those parachuting flares .

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_038103140.html

(CBS4) PHOENIX, AZ Nearly a decade after the highly publicized 'Phoenix
Light Phenomenon', more strange lights have appeared in the night sky over
downtown Phoenix.

Tuesday night, mysterious lights lit up the western skies over Phoenix and
soon after, phones began ringing off the hook at radio, television and
police stations from witnesses wondering what the lights were.

The Yuma Marine Base claims it has the answer. Base officials said the
amber-colored flares came from training flights on the Goldwater Gunnery
Range. They went on to explain that the amber flares are used as targets.

Witnesses said it appeared the flares were flying in a formation and base
officials explained that the flares float down to Earth attached to
parachutes.

Back in March of 1997, a huge object was spotted over parts of Arizona that
many witnesses believed to be an extraterrestrial spacecraft that was
drifting slowly and silently over the region. The 'Phoenix Light
Phenomenon" became one of the most publicized and well-documented UFO
sightings in recent history.

The Air Force said they were flares from an A-10 but many critics said
flares couldn't fly on their own over such a large distance.

The Discovery Channel has done a special on the lights. A movie has even
been made about them which recently came out on DVD.

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