NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: The Truth Is Out There: Part II
Tucson astronomer and retired Air Force pilot James McGaha said he investigated two sightings over Phoenix that March night and traced both to A-10 aircraft flying in formation at high altitude.
Former AZ Gov. Fife Symington has told a UFO investigator making a documentary that he always believed that the mysterious "Phoenix lights," which appeared in a V shape in the sky on March 13, 1997, were extraterrestrial. Symington, a former Air Force captain, told the Arizona Daily Star, "I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don't know why people would ridicule it."
The Associated Press reports:
Symington told CNN the craft he saw ... was "enormous. It just felt otherworldly. In your gut, you could just tell it was otherworldly." ...
"It was clearly aircraft in formation, flying at two different times and then dropping flares and it's clear to any rational person that's what it was," McGaha said.
McGaha said Symington "is not a trained observer and what he feels in his gut doesn't make any difference."
Symington's former chief of staff, Jay Heiler, says his former boss is a "Trekkie" who believes earthlings will travel to distant solar systems at above the speed of light "in our lifetimes."
Political junkies will recall that Symington was convicted of bank fraud, resigned the governorship as a result, successfully appealed his conviction and was subsequently awarded a pardon by President Clinton. Since then, he graduated from the Scottsdale Culinary Institute/Cordon Bleu, helped found the Arizona Culinary Institute and is a co-owner of Francos' Italian Caffé in Phoenix - along with Franco Fazzuoli, who owned Pontevecchio, on Bleeker St., and Cent'Anni, on Carmine St., in NYC. Symington was Franco's pastry chef (he still does the occasional stint in the restaurant's kitchen), and one of his signature creations is a dense, chocolate "Governor's Cake." The restaurant is also famous for an especially potent (and probably highly explosive) tiramisu.The Stiletto has had the pleasure of sampling both desserts, and can report that they are out of this world.
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