On March 13, 1997,  quite a bit of chaos began hitting the air waves over the state of Arizona concerning the strange and random appearance of "lights" hovering over several heavily populated areas.  The following is a summary of the original reports.

The first call received over the UFO Hotline (206-722-3000) was from a former police officer, who called to report that he and his family had just witnessed a bizarre cluster of red lights moving very rapidly across the night sky in the vicinity of Paulden, Arizona, at about 8:16 p.m. on Thursday night, March 13, 1997.

The man who called, a rational, sober-minded and eloquent sounding person, described having witnessed with his family a very strange cluster of distinctly red-orange lights, which consisted of 4-5 red lights "in the lead," followed by a single light which appeared to be "standing back from the others." The lights in the lead gave the impression of being in a "V" formation, somewhat like a wedge or boomerang in shape.

That was the first of many dozen calls that were received over the subsequent two days.

Subsequent calls then started pouring in to the Hotline from locations to the south of Paulden, AZ. The next calls received were from the vicinities of Prescott and Prescott Valley, approximately 50 miles north of Phoenix. Several individuals called from that vicinity to recount that approximately 8:17 p.m., they witnessed 4 or 5 very bright white lights pass overhead. Several of the observers reported that the object appeared to be triangular in shape, with a somewhat complex grouping of lights along its sides.

One of the observers in Prescott reported that the orientation of the distinctly white lights appeared to change while she and her family were observing the object. However, the lights formed a distinctly triangular pattern in the sky.

Another observer was standing outside with his wife and sons in Prescott Valley, when they noticed a cluster of lights to in the west-northwest of their position. The lights formed a triangular pattern, but all of them appeared to be red, with the exception of the light at the nose of the object, which was distinctly white. The object, or objects, which had been observed for approximately 2-3 minutes with binoculars, then passed directly overhead the observers, they were seen to "bank to the right," and they then disappeared in the night sky to the southeast of Prescott Valley…

Even though the night was very quiet, none of the observers described above heard any sound emanate from the object. All of them emphasized that the object "glided" through the sky, and made absolutely no noise whatsoever… All of the observers volunteered during their telephoned reports that they had strained their ears, trying to hear some sound from the object, but none was heard, which contributed to the eerie nature of the sighting.

 The next sighting was reported from Dewey, AZ, located approximately 10 miles to the south of Prescott. Five adults and youth were driving north on Highway 69 to an appointment in Prescott, when they witnessed a very large cluster of lights, which formed a "V" shape in the sky. The driver pulled off the road into a grocery store parking lot, and all the occupants got out of their car in order to get a better look at the object. By this time, the object was directly above them, where it appeared to hover for several minutes.

The member of this group who called the Hotline reported that the object was so large that, if he clenched his fist and held it at arms length, he could not cover the size of the object with his fist!

In addition, he reported that based on his flying experience, he estimated that the object was not over 1,000 feet above the ground. He emphasized that there was absolutely no sound emanating from the object—it was absolutely silent, and it was moving at a very slow pace, considerably slower for example than a light aircraft would have been seen to move at that (assumed) altitude.

He added that he could see a small, private aircraft in the vicinity of the object overhead, and that the aircraft appeared to be heading in the direction of the Prescott airport. More about this aircraft is described below in the description of the alleged interception of the strange object by F-15’s farther to the south

One particularly noteworthy aspect of this observer’s report is that he had called both Prescott Airport, and Luke AFB to report the sighting. The female operator at Luke AFB volunteered to him that their switchboard had been deluged with reports about the strange object. Later statements from Luke AFB alleged that they had received no calls about the object.

The next calls to arrive were from Chino Valley, Tempe, Glendale, Phoenix, Kingman, and Tucson…

Many people called from those areas, far too many to describe in detail. One of the most interesting reports, however, was from a young man, who identified himself as an "amateur astronomer," who resides in west Phoenix. His description of the object, which he saw to the west of his home, appeared to be a cluster of solid, unblinking lights, which moved in an unwavering procession from the north to south. He could discern, he thought, that each of the individual lights in fact was two smaller lights. Also, he reported that he observed two aircraft in the vicinity of the object, one of which appeared to turn away from the object to the west, and the other which turned to the east.

Another interesting report was submitted by a young mother, who stood outside her home, located in Phoenix approximately 1 mile south of Camel Back Mountain, and watched the object with her children for 5 minutes. She reported that the object was directly overhead her house, and that it was larger than her clenched fist when held at arms length! The object appeared to have lights along its sides, such that the lights gave the viewers on the ground the impression of a "boomerang" or "arrowhead" shape.

After approximately 5 minutes, the object began to move slowly to the south. However, before the object disappeared from sight to the south, it appeared to "fire" out to the front of it a red beam of "laser light" for an instant. Then, as it moved slowly to the south, the lights of the front and sides of the object seemed to dim and fade from sight. There were no lights visible on the aft end of the craft as it moved away from the observers. The object just disappeared from sight in the southern sky…

The object was next seen in Tucson, where a man watched the formation of lights for what he estimates to be 15 minutes…from 8:45 to after 9:00 p.m., he estimates. He reported to us that the lights had come from the northwestern sky, maneuvered overhead for 5-10 minutes, and then moved off to the south in "nose to tail" formation, disappearing from sight as they moved over the mountains.

The last location to report was Kingman, AZ, where a young man, en route to Los Angeles, called from a phone booth to report having seen a large and bizarre cluster of lights moving slowly in the northern sky.

"A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't."
--Irvin Cobb, American Humorist, 1876-1944

I received this in my e-mail, forwarded to me by a friend.  Although the original author is unknown, it still drives one to really think about its meaning:

Question 1:  If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had eight children already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion?  Read the next question before looking for the answer at the end of this article.

Question 2:  It is time to elect the world leader, and your vote counts.  Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:

When minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate on November 30, 1998, everyone was expecting the usual generalities.  What they heard, instead, was a stirring prayer calling our country to repentance and righteousness.

The response to Minister Wright's prayer was instantaneous.  A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.  In just six weeks, the Central Christian Church had logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired the prayer on "The Rest of the Story" on the radio and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

The Prayer:

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance.  We know Your Word says "Woe on those who call evil good," but that's exactly what we have done.  We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.

We confess that:

• We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism.
• We have worshiped other gods and called it multi-culturalism.
• We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.
• We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
• We have neglected the needy and called it self reservation.
• We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
• We have killed our unborn children and called it a choice.
• We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
• We have neglected the discipline our children and called it building self esteem.
• We have abused power and called it political savvy.
• We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
• We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
• We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

I ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Chris.  Amen.

There is a legend building, gaining more and more followings of curious persons with each passing day.  Beginning in 1976 when imaged for the first time by the Viking Orbiters, the haunting pictures taken of the lone sentinels resting on the surface of Mars literally seem to call to us, and spark emotion from utter disbelief and outrage to the spawn of hope that finally, humanity has discovered definitive proof that life had existed on our sister planet.

The flat plain of Cydonia Mensae, laying in the northern hemisphere of Mars, specifically at 41 degrees North latitude, 9.5 degrees longitude, has become the epicenter of scrutiny, debate, hopes and dreams.  Many scientists have refuted the images taken from the Viking Orbiters as nothing more than pictures of massive rock structures in this region, daunted by a play of light and shadow.  Nothing more.  Yet other scientists refuse to accept this skepticism, going through great painstaking strides to find mathematical constants surrounding these structures, accentuating the probability of these structures being artificially made.

It is not my intention with this article to say these findings are absolute proof positive that life had existed at some point on the surface of Mars.  It is, however, my intention to bring to you some of the findings which have surfaced from the study of these structures, and allow you to extrapolate from these facts and let you make your own decision.

Even with the extreme contrast between the 1976 images and the 1998 images, others contend that if the Face is artificial then it would naturally be highly eroded with the tremendous age the structure must be.  Citing the erosion rate of the Sphinx of Egypt (which is only a few thousand years old at last estimate), it is easy to contrast the deformation of the stone structure here on Earth with the climatic changes and affects on such a structure on Mars.  Even if this structure on Cydonian is quite probably thousands or even millions of years older than the Sphinx.

For A Complete Detailed Description on the findings of the Mars Global Surveyor and contrasting analysis from the Viking Orbiter, click on this link to find an article written by Mark J. Carlotto.

Analysis of Global Surveyor Imagery of the Face on Mars
by Mark J. Carlotto

Recommended Reading To Learn More:

Carlotto, M. J., "Digital imagery analysis of unusual Martian surface features," Applied Optics, Vol. 27, pp 1926 - 1933, 1988

Brandenburg, J. E., DiPietro, V., and Molenaar, G., "The Cydonian hypothesis," Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1991

Hoagland, R., "The Monuments of Mars:  A City on the Edge of Forever", North Atlantic Books, Berkeley CA, 1987.

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