CAVEAT LECTOR: Informed political sources indicate that former Republican Governor Fyfe Symington III may intend to run for election to public office in Arizona in 2008. Please read Symington's biographical notes at the end of this article and listen to the EXOPOLITICS RADIO episode entitled "The Phoenix Lights" with Dr. Lynne Kitei. Then consider the reliability of this alleged witness before making a final evaluation.
Based on former Gov. Symington's television and radio interviews on major media, including CNN, ABC, and Coast to Coast AM, it does appear that Gov. Symington is sincere about his having seen the reported Phoenix Lights space craft on the night of March 13, 1997. His coming forward at this time is laudatory. However, Gov. Symington has not provided a justifiable or adequate response as to why he did not report his sighting publicly in 1993, as Governor of the State. Gov. Jimmy Carter reported his 1969 UFO sighting in 1973 while Governor of Georgia. Moreover, Gov. Symington, in our view, has not provided a justifiable response at to why he called and held the "spoof" press conference, thereby reinforcing disinformational anti-Extraterrestrial stereotypes, especially since he admits he had just personally witnessed the craft.
Still, under the test of the South African Amnesty Process - that public confession of a crime yields public absolution - Gov. Symington has passed the text. In this case, the potential crime could be stated as potentially knowingly abetting the Extraterrestrial cover-up by his behaviour as Governor of Arizona in 1997.
By this view, the Extraterrestrial cover-up and embargo, aggressively held in place by the U.S. military-intelligence authorities since the early 1950s, may constitute the international humanitarian crime crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and the Geneva Conventions.
Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
Editor, EXOPOLITICS.COM
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
FORMER ARIZONA GOVERNOR ADMITS SEEING UFO
Fife Symington decides to set record straight ten years after famed “Phoenix Lights” incident
Phoenix, AZ – Ten years after the Arizona UFO incident known as the “Phoenix Lights,” former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington, III, now says that he himself was a witness to one of the “craft of unknown origin,” even though he originally did not say so publicly.
In an exclusive interview by Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter with the Washington-based Coalition for Freedom of Information, released today in the Prescott Daily Courier, Symington now admits that he saw an enormous, inexplicable craft that evening.
On March 13, 1997, during Symington’s second term as Governor, thousands saw gigantic triangular and V-shaped unidentified objects, gliding slowly and silently across the sky. Witnesses throughout the state estimated that the eerie, lighted vehicles were bigger than many football fields, up to a mile long.
They reported that these were clearly solid, technological flying machines that blocked out the stars - not merely lights. The objects were seen earlier than the row of lights near Phoenix, videotaped and shown repeatedly on television, which were most likely flares.
Symington was well known for ridiculing the incident at a spoof press conference, so his statement marks a dramatic turnaround. According to his comments to Kean, he wants to make amends to his constituents and set the record straight.
The former Governor, a cousin of the late Missouri Senator Stuart Symington, states that the incident remains unsolved, and should be officially investigated. The U.S. Government has never acknowledged that something was in the sky that night, despite official documentation of a very similar flying craft of unknown origin investigated in the 1990’s by the governments of England and Belgium.
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FORMER ARIZONA GOVERNOR NOW ADMITS SEEING UFO
FIFE SYMINGTON DECIDES TO SET RECORD STRAIGHT TEN YEARS AFTER FAMED "PHOENIX LIGHTS" INCIDENT
By Leslie Kean
Ten years after the Arizona UFO incident known as the "Phoenix Lights," former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington, III, now says that he himself was a witness to one of the strange unidentified flying objects, even though he originally did not say so publicly.
"It was enormous and inexplicable," he said in an exclusive interview from his home in Phoenix. "Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too."
On March 13, 1997, during Symington�s second term as Governor, thousands saw multiple triangular and V-shaped craft, gliding slowly and silently across the sky for half an hour beginning at approximately 8:15 pm. Awestruck witnesses, throughout the state, estimated that the eerie, lighted vehicles were bigger than many football fields, up to a mile long.
Arizona Senator John McCain, a friend of Symington�s who the former Governor describes as "open-minded," acknowledged at a 2000 press conference that lights were seen over Arizona. "That has never been fully explained. But I have to tell you that I do not have any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs," he said.
The evidence for a possible UFO, which simply means something in the sky that can�t be identified, lies in the fact that countless witnesses reported seeing low, gigantic, technological flying machines that blocked out the stars - not merely lights. Now the former Governor attests to that.
Symington says he saw a large triangular "craft of unknown origin" with lights, moving slowly. "It was dramatic. And it couldn't have been flares because it was too symmetrical," he says. "It had a geometric outline, a constant shape."
The sightings of the objects that evening are sometimes confused with the row of lights that appeared at about 10 pm, near Phoenix, and have been shown repeatedly on television news. These later lights were probably flares. People witnessed the objects at around 8:30 because they were outside on that pleasant, cloudless night watching the Hale-Bopp Comet.
Symington was known for ridiculing the incident at a spoof press conference, so his statement marks a dramatic turnaround. He wants to make amends to his constituents and set the record straight.
On the morning of June 19, 1997, when pressure was building from frustrated citizens who wanted answers, the Governor announced on television that he was ordering a full investigation and would make "all the necessary inquiries. We�re going to get to the bottom of this. We�re going to find out if it was a UFO," he said in a serious tone.
Later that same afternoon, Symington suddenly called a press conference and told viewers that he had found the source behind the Phoenix Lights. His chief-of-staff, Jay Heiler, was escorted in by public safety police officers while handcuffed, wearing a large rubber mask and dressed as a space alien. The Governor presented the costumed extraterrestrial as the "guilty party." While laughter filled the room, he joked that "this just goes to show that you guys are entirely too serious."
"It was an insult to the intelligence of the witnesses," Barwood recalls. "The message to Arizona citizens was that reporting this was stupid."
"If I had to do it all over again I probably would have handled it differently," Symington explains. He says that the state of Arizona was "on the brink of hysteria" about the UFO sighting when he called the press conference, and the frenzy was building. "I wanted them to lighten up and calm down, so I introduced a little levity. But I never felt that the overall situation was a matter of ridicule," he says.
The former Governor, a cousin of the late Missouri Senator Stuart Symington, states that the incident remains open and unsolved, and should be officially investigated. The US Government has never acknowledged that something was in the sky that night.
Phoenix city councilwoman Frances Barwood was the only elected official to launch a public investigation in 1997, but she received no information from any level of government. Barwood spoke with over seven hundred witnesses, including police, pilots and former military, who provided very similar descriptions. "The government never interviewed even one witness," she says.
Symington also attempted to find an explanation. He called the Commander at Luke Air Force Base, the General in charge of the National Guard, and the head of the Department of Public Safety in 1997. None of these officials had answers, and they were "perplexed," he says.
In 2000, the Department of Defense maintained that it could not find any information about the triangular object, in response to a court-ordered search requested by a U.S. District court in Phoenix, as part of a class action suit filed by witnesses.
"How could they possibly not know about these huge craft flying low over major population centers? That�s inconceivable, but it�s also frightening," Barwood commented.
Symington�s announcement is bolstered by the fact that similar flying objects have been documented by the governments of England and Belgium.
On March 30, 1990, the Belgian Air Force sent two F-16s armed with missiles to intercept a black triangular UFO displaying bright lights on its underside. The object could accelerate or dive at tremendous speeds, starting from a stationary position, as recorded on radar. It flew at the speed of sound without making a sonic boom.
The Belgian Ministry of Defense released all its data on the UFO to the press, after eliminating American stealth aircraft and all other possible explanations.
On the night of March 30, 1993, three years later to the day, a vast triangular-shaped craft, also capable of rapidly accelerating in seconds from a virtual hover, was seen by over a hundred witnesses in England, including police officers and military personnel. The British Ministry of Defense stated that "none of the usual explanations put forward to explain UFO sightings seem applicable" and concluded that the evidence showed that "an unidentified object (or objects) of unknown origin was operating over the UK."
According to an April 1993 MOD document, the agency sent a letter to the US Embassy which was "disseminated to all �interested Agencies� in the US" to find out whether the March UFO could have been attributable to some US prototype such as the Aurora.
"The answer I got back was extraordinary," reports Nick Pope, the MOD official who investigated the 1993 sighting. "The Americans had been having their own sightings of these large, triangular-shaped UFOs and wanted to know if the RAF might have such a craft."
This statement, four years before the display over Arizona, contradicts the 2000 claim by the US DOD that the department had no information at all about the triangles. To this day, US officials continue to keep the lid on the Phoenix Lights and other well-documented American sightings of mysterious giant triangles.
"I wish that government entities would stop trying to shut down these investigations by putting out some flakey story," says Symington, a long-time pilot, drawing an analogy to the November sighting of a hovering disc by many aviation witnesses at O'Hare airport, which the FAA explained away as a "weather phenomenon."
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Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines around the world such as the Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Providence Journal, Sacramento Bee, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Newark Star Ledger, The Nation magazine, International Herald Tribune, Globe and Mail, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Bangkok Post, the Kyoto Journal, and the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Her stories have been syndicated through Knight-Ridder Tribune, Scripps-Howard, New York Times Wire Service, Pacific News Service and the National Publishers Association. She is the co-founder of the Washington-based Coalition for Freedom of Information.
EXOPOLITICS RADIO Program March 10, 2007
"THE PHOENIX LIGHTS" with Dr. Lynne Kitei
including coverage of former Arizona Republican Governor Fife Symington, III
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
"Governor Symington was born in New York City in 1945 and was raised in Maryland. He graduated from Harvard University in 1968. Governor Symington served with the United States Air Force and was stationed at Luke Air Force Base, Glendale, Arizona. He received the Bronze Star for service in Vietnam and he attained the rank of captain. He was partner with Lincoln Property Company from 1972 to 1976 and was the founder of the Symington Company shich he was involved from 1976 to 1989. Mr. Symington was elected Governor in 1991 in a run-off election held February 26, 1991. He took office on March 6, 1991. Governor Symington served as chairman of the Western Governor's Conference from 1992 to 1993. He married Ann Pritlaff and they have five children."
From
Arizona
Blue Book
Resigned on September 7, 1997 after convicted of fraud September 3, 1997.
"Republican J. Fife Symington became governor in 1989, but he also encountered legal problems. In 1994 Symington reached a settlement in a lawsuit with the government over charges that as a director of a savings and loan association he had engaged in actions that violated conflict-of-interest laws. Symington paid no money under the settlement and maintained his innocence. Symington was indicted again by a federal grand jury in June 1996 on multiple counts of fraud and extortion. In September 1997 a federal jury convicted Symington on seven felony counts for repeatedly misstating his net worth to financial institutions to obtain loans. By Arizona state law he was forced to resign his position as governor because of the felony convictions. He was succeeded in office by Arizona's secretary of state, Republican Jane Dee Hull. Symington was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and five years' probation, but remained free pending the outcome of an appeal. In 1999 Symington's convictions were overturned by a federal appeals court because a juror had been improperly dismissed during his trial."
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I understand how important it is to have the truth embargo, but I wonder about how this really plays out.
First... Isn't the main reason why there is no disclosure is because of the faith disclosure too? I mean.. most can pretend that the church and state is seperate, but we all know that's not true.
Anyway.. I love what you guys are doing. I coming from the quantum physic side of things, so you know how much we really need this to happen.
Take care
Posted by: Philena | 08 April 2007 at 22:33