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SD 46 Force officials then refused to investigate. The controversy exploded, and theories ranged from military flares to secret military craft. Author and researcher Lynn Kitei, M. D., collected hundreds of testimonies and launched an extensive investigation. Her book, The Phoenix Lights, chronicles the entire event. Writes Kitei, “When the display came over the mountains of North Phoenix and moved over the city, thousands of people saw it. The route the mysterious lights took that night can be followed by tracking the 911 calls that came into the Phoenix police departments ... Obviously something spectacular happened on the evening of March 13, 1997, throughout Arizona, but what?” Unfortu- nately, as with most UFO stories, the mystery remains.” One of the most exciting and recent sightings occurred on January 5, 2000, over central Hlinois. it all began at 4:00 a.m. - when trucker Melvern Noll of Highland, Illinois, saw a strange object float over- head. He said it looked “like a two-story house . . . it had white lights and red blinking lights.” Noll saw that the UFO was heading toward the city of Lebanon, so he called the Lebanon police department. Of- ficer Ed Barton was dispatched to the scene and was shocked to see the UFO hovering at a low altitude over the city. Barton radioed the sheriff’s station and told them he had the object in sight. Said Barton, Meanwhile, other police officers were monitoring the radio fre- quencies. Six miles southwest, a police officer in Shiloh reported to his station that he too could see the UFO. Thirteen miles further southwest in Millstadt, police officer Craig Stevens went looking for the UFO and found it moving slowly over the city. Stevens radioed his superiors, telling them, “It’s huge ... it’s kind of V-shaped.” He jumped out of his squad car and quickly snapped a photograph. UFOS AND ALIENS A WIDESPREAD SIGHTING “Tt’s not the moon and it’s not a star.”