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Flares

Explanations & misidentifications

Illuminating rockets dropped by military aircraft during exercises. They descend slowly, sometimes in alignments, before burning out. They are proposed for part of the Phoenix Lights (1997), matching flares from the Air National Guard.

In the major cases

• The Phoenix Lights (1997)

See also

• V formation
• Phoenix 1997: two separate events
• Fife Symington

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