PHOTO: Phoenix Lights, 1997

Phoenix Lights -August 13, 1997

Phoenix, Arizona - August 13, 1997.  (Series.)

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Las Lomas' UFO OVNI Over Mexico City - August 6, 1997

UFO OVNI Over Mexico City - August 6, 1997

This is a still image from one home video of a UFO OVNI over Mexico City on August 6, 1997. This is known as the Las Lomas' UFO video.  While many claimed to have seen the craft that day, some military-backed "experts" say it may have been a hoax.

Exactly one week later, the famous Phoenix Lights event occurred. This case is sometimes called The Phoenix Incident, although the lights were seen as far away as Sonora, Mexico, and Nevada.

Were there one or more physical crafts flying around Mexico City and Phoenix, Arizona during the week of August 6 to August 13, 1997?  If so, were they manmade?  And, if not, where did these unexplained aerial phenomena (UFO) come from -- and where have these OVNI gone?

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Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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PHOTO: Phoenix Lights - Arizona, 1997

Phoenix Lights - Arizona, 1997

[First in series]

This is an eyewitness photograph of The Phoenix Lights, a major UFO sighting featuring multiple witnesses which occurred in Phoenix, Arizona on August 13, 1997.  Another famous Phoenix Lights eyewitness photo appears in one of our OddBlog banners, sometimes displayed above.  Sometimes referred to as The Phoenix Incident, the lights were seen as far away as Mexico, with reports of unexplained aerial phenomenon coinciding all the way to Nevada.

Another infamous UFO case from the late 1990s had occurred only one week earlier over Mexico City.  The size and shape of the crafts differ significantly in either case, but the general area suffered several, inexplicable aerial incidents involving craft at this time.  Eyewitnesses throughout North America, of which there were thousands, say this was no formation of individual units, but a single, immense craft.

While incredulous skeptics have fallen all over themselves to debunk the event as "flares," and the US military has kept mum, there is no official explanation for the August 13, 1997 Phoenix Lights UFO Incident over Sonora, Mexico and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Smugglers Attempt to Launch Drugs Over Border with Catapult

"It looks like a medieval catapult," Border Patrol spokesman, David Jimarez, told Reuters. He was speaking of a metal framed catapult that was attached to a sports utility vehicle Border agents seized from drug smugglers near Tucson. Agents seized 45 lbs. of marijuana from smugglers who were apparently attempting to launch the drugs into the States using the catapult.

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Mexican Authorities Find Corpse Dumping Ground

Mexican authorities say they have discovered an abandoned silver mine where as many as 25 bodies have been dumped over the years by violent drug traffickers and gang members. Police learned of the mine's location and purpose from an arrested criminal.

Police the victims, many of whose hand and feet were bound, appear to have been thrown down a 650' ventilation shaft over an extended period of time. Reports do not say if the victims had been killed before being dumped, or if they were simply bound and thrown to what was certainly their protracted death amongst the other corpses. Police and soldiers are using breathing equipment to recover the bodies.

The mine is located in Taxco, a city in Guerrero, which is a popular, Colonial-era tourist destination, and also a center of the drug-related violence which has plagued Mexico in recent years.

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Human Head Left as Tribute at Drug Lord's Tomb

A severed human head with a single, red flower sticking from its ear was placed on the steps of the tomb of Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug lord killed in a raid last month. The body was found in the same cemetery, wrapped in plastic, alongside the gravesite of another drug lord who was killed in 2006. The cemetery is the resting place of many Mexican drug lords. The identity of the dismembered body remains unknown at this time.

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Mexican Officials Seek "Lost Island"

Mexican officials are desperately searching for Isla Bermeja, a long-lost island which first appeared on 18^th-Century maps.  They claim the US is encroaching on Mexican borders, and locating the island would help prove this claim.  Experts believe the sea bottom in the area, to which Mexican officials have already made claim, to be rich with oil.  However, reconnaissance allegedly shows nothing in the area.

Old maps were largely made by copying existing maps, and errors could appear on maps for centuries.  As more explorers made their ways into unchartered territory, and more of the land was explored, these errors were corrected on newer maps.  Isla Bermeja may never have existed, though other popular theories say an earthquake could have removed it, global warming could be to blame -- or the US bombed it!

Experts dismiss this latter claim, but say they will seek more funding to continue searching for the lost island of Isla Bermeja.

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Mexican Cannibal Arrested

A man alleged by police to be a cannibal was arrested in Mexico City.

Jose Luis Calva reportedly told Mexican police he was an aspiring horror novelist and poet who was working on a novel entitled Cannibal Instinct. He also admitted to police that he was a fan of Sir Anthony Hopkins, who portrayed a cannibal in several related horror flicks (though I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with anything - a perfect example of the kind of grasping-at-straws tactics cops love to use in order to bolster their cases).

Circumstantial, anecdotal evidence aside, police claimed to have found a female torso in a cabinet, a leg in the refrigerator, and bones in a cereal box. Calva's girlfriend, a 30-year old mother of two, was reported missing some days back by her family.

Cops are now looking into two other disappearances, including Calva's former girlfriend and a prostitute. Chunks of meat in a frying pan on his stove are being tested to discover if they are human.

Mystery Illness Psychological?

About 600 of the 1400 girls who attend the Villa de las Ninas school outside Mexico City have been stricken by a mysterious disease authorities say is "80% psychological." The girls apparently complained of harsh treatment and heavy discipline. The most significant symptoms include nausea and difficulty walking.

Authorities seem to insist this strict environment is what is causing this "mystery illness." Mother Superior Margie Cheong denied the allegations, but admitted she should have informed parents of the illness earlier. It first started appearing in the students last October. She said she would take responsibility if authorities decide this strict discipline is the crux of the matter.

Now, when I was a kid, the principal of my elementary school put a stoplight in the cafeteria. True story. It was wired for sound. See, the cafeteria had become really, really loud and the teachers and at least some of the students were constantly complaining about the noise, so this was his solution. Unfortunately for me, I happened to be blamed for talking two days in a row when I honestly was not! I forget what the punishment was, but it was based on a three-strikes rule and I'm pretty sure the result was corporal in nature. Of course, my stomach - quite literally - got tied in knots. It was so bad that I couldn't even go to school for a few days! So the idea that this mystery illness is psychological in nature holds some water.

But in a totally unrelated article, Japanese scientists have determined that some strains of flu are showing amazing resistance to powerful, and widely-used, anti-flu drugs. This got me to wondering if maybe these young women weren't being afflicted by something of that nature. Of course, I have no idea what the other symptoms are, nor any other details aside from those I gave you, but it's food for thought.