Marc Daus, of Missouri, was visiting Phoenix for his daughter's soccer tournament and headed on a solo hike of Camelback Mountain on Thursday around 10am. According to an interview with Coconino Sheriff Detective David Ramos, Quintane said his group of five hikers -- from France, Britain and Sweden -- were almost done with their tour when he saw the floor of the canyon begin to fill quickly with water. [11] The first reports that members of the Maryland Air National Guard were responsible for the incident were published in The Arizona Republic in July 1997. Over the next ten or so minutes, the lights appeared to come closer, the distance between the lights increased, and they took on the shape of an upside-down V. Eventually, when the lights appeared to be a couple of miles away, the family said they could make out a shape that looked like a 60-degree carpenter's square, with the five lights set into it, with one at the front and two on each side. At that time, he was showing signs of dehydration and fatigue and was believed to be heading back to the trailhead," the sheriff's office explained. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Anyone having information regarding this case, is encouraged to contact disappeared This unprecedented and inexplicable phenomenon became known as \"The Phoenix Lights\", and remains the most famous and widely viewed UFO sighting in history.Original Video link To Green Grey Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQaf9rDuRTo #1 Most Viewed UFO Youtube Channel Thirdphaseofmoon Shares Your Incredible UFO Videos To the World! The tour company he works for said he would not speak to reporters. info@maricopamissing.com, Anyone having information A helicopter was used to recover his body. Unfortunately, the victim decided against the advice and tried to find his way out, causing him to become lost further in the forest, the sheriffs department said. Why Egypt is asking its people to eat chicken feet, Elites in Davos strategize on how to fight right-wing' groups: Hit back. It was evident to us that he was not traversing down the south side of the mountain. Tim Ley and his wife Bobbi, his son Hal and his grandson Damien Turnidge first saw the lights when they were about 65 miles (100km) away from them. Her clothes were filled with heavy silt. and the case was closed. After talking with the hikers, they indicated that a 31-year-old male had left them when they called 911, in search of the trailhead. Manage Settings The second group of lights were identified as flares dropped by another flight of A-10 aircraft that were on training exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona. The 4 friends were in the Estrella Mountain National Park off-roading the night of March 13, 1997. 855-2FIND-THEM. In these desert lands, such heavy rains do not fall softly, but create flash floods, deadly rivers of silt, sand and stone. Coconino County Sheriff Joe Richards has worked these lands as a lawman for 24 years, and today he stood at the spot where the floodwaters entered the canyon. Then it roared into the canyon. Continue with Recommended Cookies, You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot post attachments in this forum, Zion hiker lost and found: Something doesn't add up, Missing hiker in Mazatzals - gpsjoe (Joe Domin), Outside Magazine article on missing hikers, Missing hikers in Supes: Jonathon Trethewey, Todd Adair and Jason Nichols, Tuscon hiker lost for 4 days on Mt. Copyright 2012 Department of Missing Persons. Amazingly, one man survived the ordeal. News | I loathe air travel , especially the airport experience. Clarence Gorman, a Navajo and director of the Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation Department, visited the scene today and expressed sadness. He did suffer a great fall of a large distance with a traumatic injury when our rescuers found him,' Captain Rob McDade of the Phoenix Fire Department said, according to AZCentral. There's nothing to prevent you from basically walking out to the end,' he said. found in the area. The search for missing and dehydrated hikers in Mohave County ended with three people rescued and a fourth person dead. 'If you've never been to the top of Camelback mountain it's an amazing view and I think unfortunately folks get caught up in their pictures and it's dangerous. His deputy, Sam Whitted, said, "Imagine the force, the pounds per square inch of pressure." edit on 10-11-2016 by Quantumgamer1776 because: Editing, edit on 10-11-2016 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss because: (no reason given). Check Link for Details http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thirdphaseofmoon-ufo-sightings/Official Thirdphaseofmoon Website! We had people spend the night out looking for her last night.". [6], On March 13, 1997 at 7:55 pm MST, a witness in Henderson, Nevada reported seeing a large, V-shaped object traveling southeast. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. A Mohave County missing hiker search has come to an end. This story has been shared 251,961 times. [9][15][16][17], Lights were reported by observers and recorded by the local Fox News television station on February 6, 2007. our sons Kathleen's cause of death has not been made public. Kathleen's husband Steve Patterson told Arizona's ABC 15, "She sent me a text at 10:02 [saying] 'Hey babe got off course. "His eyelids were stuffed with silt and mud," Whitted said. According to Scottsdale, AZ police, authorities located the body of 57-year-old Donna Miller of Rhode Island Sunday evening. [8] I'm good plenty of water.' Sheriff's Deputy Monty McKnight and one of the Navajo Indians found Quintane clinging to rocks or a clump of vegetation about a quarter mile from where investigators believe the group was standing when the floodwaters hit them. The search continued overnight and into Saturday when authorities say the man was found dead off-trail in the desert. Poncho Quintane, 28, was a guide for TrekAmerica, a tour group that took mostly young Europeans across the West for a taste of the vast vistas. [12], Later comparisons with known military flare drops were reported on local television stations, showing similarities between the known military flare drops and the Phoenix Lights. "In all my years out here, we've had no report of a flood like this in the canyon.". Later in 2007, Symington reportedly told a UFO investigator he'd had a personal close encounter with an alien spacecraft but remained silent "because he didn't want to panic the populace". 13,809 people follow this. FAQ | It was careering down into the open creek bed just above the hikers, Candelaria said. [20] This was confirmed by a police helicopter. The body of 74-year-old Donald Hayes was located by authorities on Wednesday near Mingus Mountain in north-central Arizona about 85 miles north of Phoenix, the Yavapai County Sheriffs Office said in a statement. The 63-year-old female and 27-year-old female were transported for immediate medical care. Crews hiked, biked, drove around and flew over the area where the man was believed to be missing from. [10] The squadron to which he belonged was in fact at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, on a training exercise at the time and flew training sorties to the Goldwater Range on the night in question, according to the Maryland Air National Guard. www.maricopamissing.com or TOLL FREE 1-855-2FIND-THEM. According to Symington, "I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. A suspect was arrested in connection with their disappearance, however the Maricopa County Medical Examiners office stated they were 'victims of He added there were no signs of foul play and he was found dead at the scene. to be conclusive. However Daus' body was found in an area not accessible to hikers. Aug 10 2016 10:02 pm. [5] An analysis of the luminosity of LUU-2B/B illumination flares, the type which would have been in use by A-10 aircraft at the time, determined that the luminosity of such flares at a range of approximately 5070 miles would fall well within the range of the lights viewed from Phoenix. A Maryland Air National Guard pilot, Lt. Col. Ed Jones, responding to a March 2007 media query, confirmed that he had flown one of the aircraft in the formation that dropped flares on the night in question. "Intrigue persists over lights in sky." An official from Luke Air Force Base denied any United States Air Force activity in the area. There is no trail off that south side to safely bring you down.'. 1969), Mitch Adams (Born 'That's what slowed us down. She called authorities, prompting a six-day ground-and-air search for Hayes that included responders from four counties and a state police helicopter. in the Estrella Mountain National Park, south of Phoenix, Arizona. "He could not see. On a sunny blue afternoon, a dozen men and women parked their cars Tuesday, paid a few dollars in admission to the Navajo Indians sitting in the shade under a shed, walked a hundred yards across a bone-dry wash and entered a stony labyrinth known as Lower Antelope Canyon. On March 13, 1997, mysterious lights flying in a V-formation pierced the sky over Phoenix, Arizona. Be Sure To Share Join Us On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThirdphaseofmoonBlakeCousins/Thirdphaseofmoon Radio Show Every Friday Night! Ryan Stone (27), and The sheriff's office says a 31-year-old man was found dead after becoming separated from his group. Lake Havasu City Fire had located three of the hikers who were severely dehydrated. Hobb's proposed rolling back of school vouchers in Arizona, Dolly Parton adds new baking mixes to Duncan Hines lineup, Netflix is hiring a flight attendant for one of its private jetsand the job pays up to $385,000, Made In Arizona: Milly Moon Kombucha making fermented tea health product in Phoenix, Goshen Murders: 6 killed in attack by cartel or gang members, California investigators claim, Photo showing Arizona girl running to her fire captain father trends on social media, Cost of Living Crisis: Higher prices means more Americans are taking on debt to make ends meet. The database includes long term cases that include demographics, physical characteristics, case number and DNA specific information. Great thread. 20 Years Later! I'm on my way back, I'll text you from the parking lot,' " said Steve. Sheriff's deputies said they had found shoes and clothes believed to belong to the victims in the debris pushed downstream by the floodwaters. by azbackpackr Jun 25 2016 02:45 am. The latest Arizona headlines, national news events of the day + sports and weather updates. Crews are pictured removing Daus' car near Echo Canyon Trail, Authorities searched for him for 30 hours until a local news station's helicopter found his body. [13], During the Phoenix event, numerous still photographs and videotapes were made showing a series of lights appearing at a regular interval, remaining illuminated for several moments, and then going out. reported to the Maricopa County Sheriff's office, after they "I don't see that there is blame," he said. Check it out! According to the Mutual UFO Network, on March 13, 1997 between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., thousands of people reported seeing strange, bright lights flying over Nevada, Arizona and part of Mexico. Two more bodies were recovered today. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. All these years and I didnt know about this. "We had people on bicycles. black bear suspected of attacking a camper in the PHOENIX, AZ - Unlike thousands of missing person's cases, the 1997 disappearance of Daniel Adam's 29-year-old son - Mitchell Adams and his three friends - prompted hundreds of volunteers to help police search and spawned local media coverage which resulted in an outpouring of sympathy across Arizona. Anyone having information should contact the Arizona Missing Database at 1-855-2FIND-THEM. [8], According to Robert Sheaffer, what became known as "the Phoenix Lights" incident of 1997 "consists of two unrelated incidents, although both were the result of activities of the same organization: Operation Snowbird, a pilot training program operated in the winter by the Air National Guard out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona". Missing Hikers REAL Video? We've received your submission. Finally an old school thread, missed this. I But he was alive. Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm MST, in a space of about 300 miles, from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. ", "He saw several of the people from his group who were upstream come rushing by," Whitted said. info@maricopamissing.com, Home | About Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Soon, the object with the embedded lights appeared to be moving toward them, about 100 to 150 feet (30 to 45 meters) above them, traveling so slowly that it gave the appearance of a silent hovering object, which seemed to pass over their heads and went through a V opening in the peaks of the mountain range towards Piestewa Peak Mountain and toward the direction of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The body of Kathleen Patterson, 60, was recovered on Wednesday morning, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said in a statement shared with PEOPLE. "And he pressed them against the side of the canyon. Often, hikers encounter standing pools during their walks. Information Links | ", The name the Navajos have given the canyon just above the one where some of the 11 people are believed entombed in the silt means "the place where water runs through rocks. Community. [14][13], Shortly after the 1997 incident, Arizona Governor Fife Symington III held a press conference, joking that "they found who was responsible" and revealing an aide dressed in an alien costume. Authorities say the group was visiting from out of town and wasn't familiar with the dangers of hiking in the heat. "This was a bad thing, a very sad thing," Gorman said. Quintane had been propelled down the canyon, and when McKnight reached him about 30 minutes later, he had been stripped of every shred of clothing, naked. "He tells himself, You can live,' and he had some training, something, and he protects his head and face and points his feet downstream.". were last seen off-roading at the base of the The second incident, described as "a row of brilliant lights hovering in the sky, or slowly fallings" began at approximately 10:00 pm, and was due to a flare drop exercise by different A-10 jets from the Maryland Air National Guard, also operating out of Davis-Monthan air base as part of from Operation Snowbird. Parents 'clearly' know more about missing 11-year-old, police say. This. Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Report was inconclusive. Glenn Lauder (Born March 5, An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Information is added as it becomes available by medical examiners and coroners across the country, increasing the chances that these missing persons will be found. Arizona Missing Database: ), National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (1956-1980), Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (20072012), Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (current), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phoenix_Lights&oldid=1127772799, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 December 2022, at 15:35. [10] The lights then appeared to wink out as they fell behind the Estrella mountain range to the southwest of Phoenix. Never miss a story sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. A Tennessee man was found dead three days after he went missing during a hike on an Arizona mountain, officials said. Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. Feb. 25, 2007", "Skeptoid #41: The Alien Invasion of Phoenix, Arizona", "National Ledger Former Arizona Gov. An Arizona hiker who was reported missing on Sunday was found dead after telling her husband she "got off course.". bear attack. (Born December 12, 1969) were 'A local media helicopter found what they thought would be consistent with a body, radioed it to me, we radioed to the folks on the ground,' McDade said. The men were Phoenix Fire Department rescue teams said he appeared to have fallen a significant distance and his body was found in a ravine. (931) 5.3 1 h 7 min 2016 16+. 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