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 haunted by it still.
"I'll never be the same," Bill Greiner, 51, a cement truck
driver, says. He was hauling a load down a mountain
north of Phoenix when he saw two brilliantly lit orbs,
shaped like spinning tops. "Before this, if anybody'd told
me they saw a UFO, I would've said, 'Yeah, and I
believe in the tooth fairy.'
"Now I've got a whole new view. I may be just a dumb
truck driver, but I've seen something that don't belong
here."
So what did Greiner and every- body else see? That
question has rat- tied around this state for three months.
Officials at Luke Air Force Base in nearby Glendale are
bombarded with calls for an investiga- tion, even though
the US. government is officially out of the UFO
business.
The subject surfaces constantly on talk shows. And the
army of people demanding answers has grown to the
point that a Phoenix city council- woman has launched
an inquiry.
It could have been a hoax. It could have been an
illusion. It could have been almost anything. But the
events of March 13 may add up to the most contentious
and confounding UFO report since the so-called UFO
age was launched 50 years ago by the legendary crash
of a "spaceship" outside Roswell, N.M.
The sightings come at a time when interest in UFOs
borders on a national obsession, saturating the movie
industry, television and literature. A Poll this month by
CNN and Time magazirie- found that 22% of adult
Americans believe intelligent beings from other planets
have been in con- tact with human beings.
A Gallup poll last September found that 72% of
Americans think there is life on other planets. And 71%
said they think the U.S. government knows more about
UFOs than it's telling.
"The fact is that more people are seriously interested in
UFOs now than they ever have," Don Ecker, research
director and news editor at UFO Magazine, says.
"Convincing the govern- ment may be an exercise in
futiity, but it's not hard to find believers on the streets."