Wanaque and the Lights over the Reservoir
Through the winter of 1966 a bright object was seen for weeks over the Wanaque reservoir in New Jersey, hanging above the ice. The witnesses included the mayor, the chief of police, the men on duty at the dam and dozens of residents; on some nights reports came in from several points on the shore at once. The dam keepers maintained that a beam from the object had melted a hole in the ice. There was no checking it — the ice was gone by spring. The wave came back in 1967. Neither the Air Force nor the police found an explanation, and Wanaque survives in the literature as a rare case whose principal witnesses were town officials on duty.
The Phoenix Lights
On the evening of 13 March 1997 a line of lights crossed Arizona, seen by thousands of people over nearly five hundred kilometres, from Nevada to the Mexican border. Nearly every account agrees: five or seven lights in a fixed formation, moving slowly and without sound, and a dark mass between them that blotted out the stars. The military attributed it to flares dropped over the Barry Goldwater range, and for the later part of the evening that fits. For the first part, around half past eight, it does not: the formation crossed the city well before the exercise. The governor of the day, Fife Symington, mocked the story at a press conference. Ten years later he said he had seen the object himself and could not identify it.
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