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with comprehensive prime-time stories. In the ensuing days the story was also aired by dozens of local television news affiliates. Mike Fortsen, an eyewitnesses to the events of March 13, 1997, was interviewed on the CBS This Morning and asked to describe his sighting. "It was 8:30 in the evening, I was going to bed, I was closing my bedroom window which faces to the west and as I closed the window my eyes immediately went to the north where I saw the three huge white bright lights...we watched this craft as it leveled off. We watched it from the north all the way to the south for approximately a minute and a half. It was a flat black triangle. It was approximately a mile in length. It was about 1,500 feet off the ground. It was totally quiet. It was a solid object, it was one vehicle and it was close to a mile in length." "I'm pretty well convinced that this was an alien visitation craft. I'm pretty sure that it was inter-dimensional instead of interplanetary and I'm quite sure that our federal govt. and our military knows exactly what it was." The story was also covered by USA Today in a full page article on June 18, 1997. In the article investigative reporter Richard Price called the events "the most confounding UFO report in fifty years." According to Price the event, which was witnessed by thousands of Arizona residents, was described in remark-ably consistent terms. "Something happened in the skies over Arizona the night of March 13. No one is sure what it was, but thousands saw it, dozens videotaped it and people all over the state are still haunted by it. . . . Witnesses generally agree on three things. First, it was enormous. The most conservative estimate describes it as three football fields long. Computer analysis of the tapes puts it at 6,000 feet, or more than a mile. Second it made no sound. Third, it moved slowly over Phoenix, cruising at 30 mph. Several times it hovered in place in the sky."”° In a scene that was reminiscent of the blockbuster movie Independence Day, dozens of night-time videotapes showed the outline of a massive object floating slowly near the downtown lights of Phoenix. Yet, despite the large number of witnesses, neither the Air Force nor the state and local governments were willing to officially investigate the incident. The origin of the enormous unidentified flying object will surely be the topic of much speculation and debate in the months and years to come. On November 23, 1996, the Associated Press (AP) in Seoul, South Korea, posted a story about a daylight sighting of a disk-shaped UFO that was witnessed by thousands of Koreans at 7:20 A.M., during rush-hour traffic. The story, entitled "UFO Footage Stirs Sensation in S. Korea," described the event and noted that it was videotaped and aired by 1 tad 14 When asked what he thought the object was Fortsen stated, UFOS OVER KOREA a local television network.