My Uncle is a Staff Seargent with the Arizona Rangers. He has had 3 different UFO sightings, one of which was the 1997 Phoenix Lights incident.
He is adamant that they were not flares. He said he saw a craft, and you could unfold a newspaper, hold it above your head, and it would not block out the view of the craft (it was that big). Thousands of eyewitnesses and the US Government called it "flares".
I am not sure about the 1977 sighting ... could you tell me what it was?
