Dr. Lynne Kitei Is One of the Witnesses
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FLARES? NO! ® m a g a z i n e The Phoenix Lights m a g a z i n e Ten years ago, they were seen by tens of thousands, across three states. Dr. Lynne Kitei is one of the witnesses. $5.99 US $7.99 CAN March 2007 30 0 7 4 4 7 0 0 7 2 3 8 6 Vol. 22 No. 3 PHOENIX LIGHTS Ten Years and counting © 1997–2007 Lynne D. Kitei, MD By William J. Birnes and Sean Casteel 32 March 2007 UFO © 1997–2007 Lynne D. Kitei, MD The bottom line is that we are being visited by something, and whoever has been visiting us here in Arizona—and around the globe at an increasing frequency—is doing it in a gentle way. Has it really been ten years? My, how time flies, if been recreated. Even so, this maneuver satisfied most of you’ll pardon the pun. On March 13, 1997 a mass sight- the general public eager to hear a plausible explanation. ing event with thousands of witnesses lit up the night But Dr. Lynne was far from satisfied, particularly since skies over Phoenix, Arizona. What has come to be called she had photographed the same massive equidistant the Phoenix Lights was attested to by commercial pilots array of lights in the same location two years and two and air traffic controllers, and it was also captured on months prior to the Arizona event. She began a tireless video by several people with enough presence of mind to campaign to learn the truth about the March 13 sight- go running for their camera. ing that eventually led to a book, The Phoenix Lights … Enter physician and community health educator Dr. A Skeptic’s Discovery That We Are Not Alone (Hampton Lynne Kitei, who prefers to be called Dr. Lynne. She is Roads, 2004) and an internationally award-winning doc- a Phoenix resident who had been photographing similar umentary film called The Phoenix Lights … We Are Not lights in the months and years leading up to the March Alone. Dr. Lynne has played a key role throughout the 13 event. In spite of her growing collection of UFO vid- past ten years in keeping the issue of what happened in eotapes and stills, including the signature footage of the Phoenix that night alive and open to further study. giant three points of light hovering over the city during “Before I came forward with the book,” Dr. Lynne said, the historic sighting, she actually saw very little of what “it was pretty much a dead issue. The military had an- happened that night. But whether by coincidence or de- nounced they were flares, even though people who had sign, Dr. Lynne was scheduled to meet with a MUFON seen this firsthand knew it was much more than flares. representative the next morning to talk about her photo- Having witnessed and filmed these anomalous phenom- graphic evidence, and it was he who first informed her ena myself just yards from our bedroom window in 1995, about the mass sighting the previous night. I was skeptical that we had this kind of technology. What It took several months for the story of the lights to make were three amber orbs in a rock-solid pyramid formation major headlines nationwide, but on June 18 USA Today doing hovering over a private, gated mountainside com- finally ran an article about the munity anyway? It was just too mystery, opening a floodgate awesome and mind-boggling. of other media interest. After a “Even if we have this kind of curious, even concerned public technology,” she continued, “why began demanding some kind of would the military orchestrate a official comment, a month later parade throughout the state for on July 25 the military offered many hours when people were up the theory that the lights had purposely looking up at the sky simply been flares fired off by at the Hale-Bopp Comet and then the visiting Maryland National deny it for months? It just doesn’t Guard “Operation Snowbird” make sense. unit doing practice-flying ma- “It needs further investigation. neuvers. After years of requests But just because we may not have for a reenactment, a dismal at- the technology yet to definitively tempt was made by three Air Na- define what these things are, that tional Guard Units to restage the doesn’t mean they’re not real.” Phoenix Lights by shooting off Even though the silent, low- flares on March 7, 2000. To this gliding, mile-to-two-mile wide day the phenomenon has not V-shaped craft or “lights that © 1997–2007 Lynne D. Kitei, MD UFO March 2007 33 Phoenix Lights seemed to be attached to something,” have never been “In ten years of hundreds if not thousands of people addressed, the debunking of the mass sighting was for reporting their experiences on March 13, 1997, there has the most part successful, according to Dr. Lynne. not been one report of harm, threat, or abduction con- “The topic was pretty much buried under the carpet,” nected with the mass sighting event. Quite the contrary. she said. “Looking for a logical explanation, many people, Witnesses were in awe, excited, even grateful to have had particularly outside of Arizona either fed into the flare such an extraordinary experience. That’s pretty signifi- theory or figured that it was some kind of military thing. cant when you think about it.” Understandably, they are both comforting excuses. As part of the general educational agenda, Dr. Lynne “But the people who really saw it up close and personal works closely with Rebecca Hardcastle, who has a long knew in their heart of hearts academic background in the- that something happened © 1997–2007 Lynne D. Kitei, MD ology and philosophy and here that affected them at a works as a hypnotherapist very, very deep level. In the and life coach as well as book, I delve into the positive counseling people who have transformation that took place had paranormal experiences. within people who really ex- In 2005 Hardcastle taught a perienced it. Certainly some course in extraterrestrial real- people just ignored it, some ity at Scottsdale Community people couldn’t deal with it College, one of the few such and just denied the whole UFO classes ever offered. thing, some people forgot “I’ve been very active in the about it. And that’s okay. For UFO and experiencer commu- some, it may take longer than nity here,” Hardcastle said. others for it to sink in. Every- “I teach craft sightings, and I one in their own time. But as think that the whole body of a physician and experiencer, I knowledge of craft sightings can appreciate the healing that is integral to understanding takes place just being able to contact and extraterrestrial talk about it without the criti- phenomena. I also feel that cism and ridicule that has per- where my kind of calling has meated this topic for so long.” been is to work with people who are ex- Dr. Lynne sees her current role in the periencers.” drama as serving to educate the pub- Hardcastle radiates enthusiasm about lic about the Phoenix Lights and unex- this tenth year anniversary of the Phoe- plained phenomena in general. “I’ve nix Lights. “I really believe in my heart,” been an educator for 30 years,” she said. she said, “that Phoenix is a global, if not “It’s been my life’s work and passion to a universal, center of influence and por- disseminate information concerning the tal of contact. This whole area always reality of vital health issues to the com- has been, is today, and always will be munity, particularly to young people. © 1997–2007 Lynne D. Kitei, MD playing that role in terms of contact.” “That’s why I felt it was so important Hardcastle explained that we were in to come forward, after seven years of anonymity, to share the Christian season of the Epiphany, which commemo- the reality of this vital issue. I’ve essentially done the rates the time when the three Wise Men journeyed to find homework for others who, like me, had no interest or Christ by following a star. “That whole phenomenon,” knowledge of the subject. In the end, the data speaks for she continued, “philosophically, religiously, spiritu- itself. ally—human beings want to follow stars. They want to “And if my dedicated effort helps to wake people up follow anything that comes out of the skies. and to raise awareness in a credible yet caring way, then I “And I think that the whole Phoenix Lights phenome- have done something prolific. My hope is that others will non is one of the things that make us aware of that. People take a look at it with an open mind and heart. Then they move to Phoenix because of the lights. If anybody would can decide for themselves. do a survey about ‘Why did you come to this area?’ they “It is also important not to freak people out about the would be astounded at the number of people who chose compelling evidence confirming that we are not alone. to come here because of all the sightings. People are here The bottom line is that we are being visited by something, for the stars.” and whoever has been visiting us here in Arizona—and The upcoming sixtieth anniversary of the Roswell in- around the globe at an increasing frequency—is doing it cident is scheduled for this summer, and the event has in a gentle way.