File this one under mysterious but true.
On March 13, 1997, something mysterious happened in Phoenix that would ultimately change the beliefs of some residents forever as to whether we are alone in the universe. In the late evening between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm MST, multiple witnesses claimed to have seen mysterious glowing lights in a V-shaped pattern which seemed to hover in the night sky.
This phenomenon later become known as the
Phoenix Lights and will celebrate its 15th anniversary this year. To this day there is still no official explanation for their origin. And although there are several "scientific" explanations as to their appearance, at least two prominent Arizonans believe that there is a more "supernatural" explanation.
Fife Symington, Arizona's governor at the time, went on record 10 years later, in an
AP article featured on MSNBC, claiming that he believed the Lights were an "alien spacecraft" and stating that "you could just tell it was otherworldy."
Yet perhaps the most vocal advocate of the Phoenix Lights is author and lecturer Dr. Lynne Kitei, M.D. With just a quick glance of her
website, it is evident that Dr. Kitei (who by the way, for all you trivia buffs out there, played Florence Arizona in the 1987 movie Raising Arizona starring Nicholas Cage) believes that these lights were some type of UFO. And just in case you don't believe her she has the book and documentary to prove it!
Based on the Governor and the good doctor's opinions, along with a host of other eye-witnesses, it is apparent the general consensus is that these Lights are connected somehow to the UFO phenomenon. Yet what does the Bible have to say about this event, if anything? Oddly enough, the Bible may be more in agreement with these viewpoints than you may think.
In 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12, the Apostle Paul writes to the Church of Thessolonica concerning the End Times:
9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
Just what is this powerful delusion? Some Bible teachers believe this powerful delusion could come in the form of an "alien" visitation to our planet during a time of upheaval. However, they go on to teach that rather than true extraterrestrial aliens, these beings will be interdimensional Fallen Angels masquerading as aliens. They believe that this inevitable event will help our world transition from a multitude of people groups with different beliefs and cultures to a more unified One World Government system in which the Anti-Christ will be able to take control.
This theory may sound far out but when you realize that the whole UFO phenomenon can be linked to the Days of Noah, as recorded in the Bible (Genesis 6) and the Book of Enoch (chapters 7 and 8), as well as the UFO pehnomenon's link to the occult workings of Aleister Crowley, it becomes a little more down to earth and reasonable.
Are we being prepared for an inevitable disclosure event through our media and culture saturated with this Alien/UFO meme? It's time to
WAKE UP!
**To celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Phoenix Lights, Scottsdale Harkins Shea will be showing the 2005 documentary “Phoenix Lights: We Are Not Alone” on March 11, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.
Click here for more info.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
If you have the time, here are some interesting quotes I have pulled about the Phoenix Lights from the following Source:
Phoenix Lights Ten Years and Counting, UFO Magazine, March 2007 pp32-45
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“It is also important not to freak people out about the compelling evidence confirming that we are not alone.
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. Nobody was hurt.
“In ten years of hundreds if not thousands of people reporting their experiences on March 13, 1997, there has not been one report of harm, threat, or abduction connected with the mass sighting event. Quite the contrary. Witnesses were in awe, excited, even grateful to have had such an extraordinary experience. That’s pretty significant when you think about it.” pg 34
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Rebecca Hardcastle, who has a long academic background in theology and philosophy and works as a hypnotherapist and life coach as well as counseling people who have had paranormal experiences. In 2005 Hardcastle taught a course in extraterrestrial reality at Scottsdale Community College...Hardcastle radiates enthusiasm about this tenth year anniversary of the Phoenix Lights. “I really believe in my heart,”
she said, “that Phoenix is a global, if not a universal, center of influence and portal of contact. This whole area always has been, is today, and always will be playing that role in terms of contact.” Hardcastle explained that we were in the Christian season of the Epiphany, which commemorates the time when the three Wise Men journeyed to find Christ by following a star. “That whole phenomenon,” she continued, “philosophically, religiously, spiritually—human beings want to follow stars. They want to follow anything that comes out of the skies. pg 34
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The night of March 13 also brought it with other strange events, which Dilettoso said he finds very interesting.
For instance, he recalled reading an article in the July 1997 issue of Scientific American that reported bursts
of gamma radiation, a very unusual phenomenon, were detected by the Hubble Telescope that same March evening. The gamma radiation was eventually traced back to somewhere within our own solar system, and Dilettoso wonders if the extraterrestrials may travel as an energy field that gathers mass and momentum as they arrive here on earth. Also on March 13, 1997, then-president Bill Clinton fell down and broke his knee while visiting the home of golfer Greg Norman. “Clinton had to be hurried away in a helicopter,” Dilettoso said, “and kept at Bethesda Naval Hospital underground for over two days. There were press conferences showing diagrams of all the surgery that was going to have to be done and how long it was going to last and why he had to cancel his big meeting in Sarajevo with the prime minister of Russia. “A few days later he’s walking around and he’s okay. It never came up again.” Government secrecy theorists might be easily led to the conclusion that the broken knee was a cover story designed to hide the perceived need to get the
commander-in-chief to safety in the wake of the unnerving events happening out in the Southwest desert.
Another strange incident Dilettoso related involved an A-10 fighter pilot who had been scrambled to investigate the lights in the sky of unknown origin on March 13. A member of the pilot’s ground crew even called Peter Davenport at the National UFO Reporting Center, and he appeared to be very shaken by what was happening. Several months later, the aforementioned pilot was flying in formation with two other fighter jets between Phoenix and Flagstaff. “He broke formation and flew northeast towards Colorado,” Dilettoso said. “He disappeared from radar. No radio contact. He did not respond. “About two days later, his plane, in bits and pieces, was found slammed into a mountain. They interviewed his family, his crewmates, everyone who knew him, and they said, ‘Hey, this is a rock solid guy. We don’t have any idea what he was thinking when he did that.’ ” Still another March 13 event involved a satellite, manufactured in Chandler, Arizona, by the American Satellite Company. “The satellite went dark and missing,” Dilettoso said, “never to be found. The number of unusual things that happened that same night puts this in a breadbasket of paradox.” pg 36
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“I’ve never said what they are,” Dr. Lynne said, “only that they are. It’s not just an ET possibility. There are interdimensional possibilities, intelligences, spirit-world possibilities, time-traveler possibilities. There could be a combination of all these possibilities. pg 36
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Terry Mansfield witnessed the life-changing events first-hand
Somewhere out there, Mansfield realized, there was life in the universe. And the presence of that object over her head—literally only hundreds of feet above her—meant that life in the universe had come to her. She and her guests and all of Phoenix, for that matter, had suddenly been put in touch with a great link of all creation. There were others out there, not just humans, but other species. And in that moment, Terri Mansfield had been touched by them. It was a feeling of genuine awe for the vast presence of life and her connection to it.
Mansfield reiterated that the feelings of peace and joy she experienced when she saw the object floating above had completely overwhelmed her. She said she had a sensation that not only was everything right with the world, but that she had made a connection with a larger presence. She said that the sighting reaffirmed her commitment to work for peace and to establish institutions that would seek peaceful resolutions to conflict. As part of her work since her sighting, Terri has campaigned for the establishment of a U.S. cabinet-level position called the Department of Peace, whose secretary would be in charge of seeking nonviolent resolutions to conflict. Since that night, Terri has not ceased to marvel at the opportunity she had to participate in the Phoenix encounters. As she continues her campaign for a Department of Peace, she recalls that it was the vision of the huge floating object in the Phoenix skies ten years ago that propelled her on her journey to work for peace around the world. pg 44-45
