Officials Say Mystery Lights May be Flares

Military flares might be behind those mysterious lights that caused such a stir in Arizona four months ago. Visiting jets from the Maryland Air National Guard were using high-intensity flares over a bombing range near Phoenix the night of March 13, when many people reported seeing lights, military officials said. Capt. Drew Sullins of the Maryland Air National Guard, said that before returning to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson that night, the planes dumped their remaining flares at high altitude, which would have created what one pilot called “one hell of a light show.”