The Phoenix Lights

by Lynne D. Kitei, Paul Perry (Foreword by)

On the evening of March 13, 1997, Lynne Kitei, M.D., looked out her bedroom window over Phoenix and saw something that would change her life. Strange lights appeared in the sky over the nighttime city. Amber orbs in formation. It was a massive triangular array of lights moving silently but in unison as though they were connected. Many people throughout Phoenix and across the state of Arizona saw them. Optical illusion? Unlikely. Military aircraft? That's what the U.S. government wanted her to think. UFOs? That's what her evidence and subsequent years of careful research, interviews, and documentation, including photographic proof, strongly suggest. The result is The Phoenix Lights , a sober, well-researched account, both personal and scientific, of the story behind the lights, of the theories and cover-ups, the facts and denials that surrounded this event. Kitei, a well-respected Phoenix physician, had always thought of herself as grounded and practical, not one to be taken up with new age interests. But her firsthand experience and the undeniable reality of the photographs she took changed all that. She found herself a key insider in a complex mystery that has baffled humanity for centuries. What are UFOs? Who are the beings presumed to fly them? What do they want? How does it change your life to see one? The answers to these questions and more are found in The Phoenix Lights . Over the years since the sightings, she's become an ardent, tireless researcher into the truth of the Phoenix Lights and an advocate for public disclosure by the government about the subject of unexplained phenomena.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Mystery, Biography, Conspiracy Theories

248 pages, Paperback

First published February 29, 2004

About the author

Dr. Lynne Kitei is an internationally acclaimed physician and health educator who recently pushed aside her successful medical career to pursue the Phoenix Lights book and award-winning Documentary project. She was leading the cutting edge era of early disease detection and prevention as Chief Clinical Consultant at the world renowned Arizona Heart Institute's Imaging-Prevention-Wellness Center in Phoenix, Arizona until coming forward, after seven years of anonymity, as a key witness to the still unexplained mass sighting throughout Arizona on March 13, 1997.

Dr. Lynne graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Secondary Science Education, with minors in Communication and Voice from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. 1970 and an M.D. Degree from Temple University School of Medicine 1974. She completed her post-graduate studies at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lynne has been called the "woman pioneer" of medical communications in TV Guide after creating and producing innovative TV News health reports for NBC in Philadelphia in 1976. Since that time, Dr. Lynne has dedicated over 30 years to global public awareness, wellness, and health education. She has appeared as the resident health reporter for NBC affiliates in Philadelphia, and Phoenix, and has been featured on USA Cable, FOX TV News, FOX in the Morning with Mike & Juliette, ABC, CNN and CBS affiliates, NBC Japan, MSNBC, National Geographic TV, The Travel Channel, and the History Channel.

As the producer, writer, and director of the "You Make It!" prevention education video & workbook curriculum series, Dr. Lynne has been recognized with the Telly Bronze Award in 1995, the National Education Film & Video Festival Silver Apple Award in 1994, the New York International Film Festival Finalist Award in 1992, and 1993, and many others. She worked under the auspices of the Arizona Community Foundation for 20 years to help fund and distribute her revolutionary prevention/education programs to schools, churches, youth groups and libraries throughout Arizona. "Just Say KNOW to AIDS", "Just Say KNOW To Drugs", "Teen Pregnancy... Children Having Children" and "Drugs Don't Make IT!" are currently being distributed by Discovery Education.

Dr. Lynne's innovative and renowned endeavors have been featured in publications such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide Magazine, Runner Magazine, Physician's Management Magazine, Phoenix Magazine, L.A. Times Magazine, Brazil's Revista UFO Magazine, National UFO Magazine and numerous Arizona Republic Newspaper articles. She has also been recognized in the "Who's Who of American Women" and was chosen as Woman of the Year in Pennsylvania.

Besides the hundreds of radio and TV appearances sharing the historic Arizona mass sighting, Dr. Lynne has been touring the US and abroad, introducing screenings of the internationally award winning "Phoenix Lights Documentary", as well as presentations for her bestselling book, "The Phoenix Lights...A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone" and riveting power point lecture, "Coincidence or Communication?"

Reviews

[Patricia Fischer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a documentary type of book, so it was dry reading.

[Pat Rolston · Rating 4 out of 5]

We recently moved to Phoenix and I had heard of this phenomenon and am thrilled to have found this excellent book on the subject at a local Half Price Bookstore. This book was written by a local doctor recounting her experiences not only with the Phoenix Lights, but also personal encounters by her husband and family in their Paradise Valley home. This isn’t a person looking for publicity and quite the contrary stayed anonymous for as long as possible. Once the need to go public was required to tell her story effectively she relented.

Her story is compelling and dove tails with the unassailable UAP incident witnessed by tens of thousands of Arizonans March 13th, 1997. This is one of the most documented UFO mass sightings in history. Dr Kitel provides a well written account of the broader sightings over Phoenix’s South Mountain while discussing their family’s up close encounters at their home.

Do read the book if you can find it and make your own decisions. There is only one troubling aspect and it is the doctor’s naïveté regarding the lights witnessed at her home. There are a spectrum of outcomes involving UFO close encounters from very hazardous to your health to transcendent spiritual experiences. She is clearly in the positive spectrum, but it would be helpful if she noted the opposite can and does occur. There is a responsibly she has as a very accomplished doctor to reflect on this issue in my opinion.

[Cameron Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book that opens your eyes to the possibility we might not be alone.

[DS · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF after 36% completion. Witness accounts after witness accounts, bored me out of my mind.

[Michela Derry · Rating 2 out of 5]

nonostante l'argomento indubbiamente interessantissimo, il libro non è scritto così bene

[Joy H.]

RE: _The Phoenix Lights_ (2004)

I did not read this book, but instead I streamed the Netflix DVD based on the book:
"The Phoenix Lights" (2005)
http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/The_P...

It's always interesting to speculate about UFO's. This film makes a convincing argument that they are a phenomenon which should be further investigated.

[Melanni Chunn]

This is not the genre of book that I would normally read, but I saw it on my husband's dresser and I was looking for something to read so I started it. So far it's been pretty interesting-I'll give you a better idea of how I liked it when I'm finished!

[Gunvi Sund · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book of events that you can not explain.

[Ceci Perez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book on the subject. I've been intrigued by this series of sightings for years. The book takes an interesting and unexpected delve into spirituality and the afterlife. All in all, a good book.