EYE-WITNESS REPORTS:
PROFESSIONAL WITNESS REPORTS
This section contains reports and observations from credentialed scientists, engineers and trained Earthlight observers. Here you will find a more technical approach (though some reports such as Dr. Escolar's are very colorful). You may also find hypotheses pertaining to earhlight observations, and discussions about the implications of these observations.
Wikenburg Sighting by Tuzigoot Ranger, Ryan Isaac
We have published the entire email Ryan sent in order to set the context of the report.
Hello Marsha,
I don't know if you remember me or our interaction, but this is Ryan Isaac writing. I am the Park Ranger you spoke with on the top of the tower at Tuzigoot National Monument in Clarkdale AZ. We had a nice conversation about the site and it's original inhabitants, and then you asked me if I had ever seen anything in the sky over the Black Hills and the Jerome area. That led to, I think you'll agree, another conversation that was very interesting. I related the following story and we went back to the visitor center to look at a map together. Well, I wanted to send you a print version of my possible EL encounter and to offer my permission to use it (in part or whole) to supplement your research and/or to promote pubic awareness of the phenomenon and your organization. I would also be willing to discuss my experience in more detail (privately or publicly) and answer any questions you my have about what I saw.
First of all I need to give you a little background info. My stepfather is a member of the GPAA (that's the Gold Prospectors Association of America) who had just acquired a new claim a little south of Wickenburg near the old Vulture Mine. Now, it Valentine's Day of last year and we're spending a couple days prospecting. I had been watching the weather for most of the afternoon, and it was mostly overcast and slightly breezy. Since we were camping I was somewhat worried about being under prepared for a cold or rainy night. However, by dusk the clouds had moved on and the wind had settled down. I made the observation "Hey, it looks like we're going to have a nice clear night. We should have lots of stars in the sky tonight," and I made an off the cuff comment just for fun, "Who knows, we might even see a UFO." A couple hours go by, the sun had started to set, we had the fire built and the coals were just about ready for us to start cooking supper. While we were waiting, we began looking up. It was indeed shaping up to be a lovely night for stargazing. I was standing on one side of the camp looking off towards the south. My stepfather, was on the other side of camp looking to the north. It was around 2000h, calm and quiet, just beautiful. All of sudden, my stepfather says, "What the heck is that!? Ryan, Look!" Not knowing what to expect, I turn to see. Looking over my right shoulder, I see three lights in the sky. They were red-white-red and oriented vertically. It seemed like they were very close. As soon as I got focused on them, they started to fade out, from bottom to top. We were both stunned. I should probably mention here that I'm a fairly avid stargazer. I also enjoy tracking satellites. So I've spent many hours under a night sky and I have never seen anything like this. I know it wasn't a plane, helicopter, flare, or anything like that. In fact, I can give you a whole list of things that it was not. On the other hand, I can't name one thing that I feel comfortable saying it was. So after observing these lights, we were sitting around trying to figure it out. One of us would suggest what it might have been and then we'd say, "No it couldn't be that because..." We had assumed it was all over but it wasn't. It came back. Actually, we saw it about every ten minutes, just like clockwork. In total it reappeared about a dozen times between 2000h and 2230h. By the way, when I say it, I might as well mean they. Sometimes it would be one light, usually a mix of red, orange, and yellow in color, maybe change from one shade to another. one thing it would do regularly is appear in the sky then blink out and reappear in another part of the sky. Sometimes, one would show up and then three or four more show up nearby. They were almost always stationary, appearing, pulsing and changing color, and fading away. Once the lights went out, there was nothing else there. We had seen other normal air traffic, and could see a silhouette of the wings and fuselage of planes passing by overhead. So it would stand to reason that if these lights were mechanical, than something would still be visible once they went out. Assuming that the behavior I just described is "normal" for them, it did do something unusual. Now you may have to use some imagination for this one, okay? At one point, I saw a straight line of red light. That line broke into two halves and they started to move away from each other. Then each half broke into thirds, and they continued to move away from each other at a controlled speed until it looked like six equally spaced red dots in the sky. The lines/dots never shifted up or down, and they just disappeared. It was incredible. I suppose the only other point worth mentioning is, there was no sound associated with any appearances.
Just to wrap this up... I'm the kind of person who will explore all possibilities before I jump to conclusions about something like this. A major determining factor for me is: if my stepfather had been the one to have seen these things and then told me about it, describing what we both saw, and what I just told you, I'd say he was nuts. Like I mentioned above, I have no idea what these were. I'm not comfortable making the leap from strange lights in the sky to alien spacecraft or secret military whatever. All I can tell you is that I don't know what they were, by definition, a UFO.
I really feel that meeting you was a synchronistic event. Since witnessing those lights, my life hasn't quite been the same. I'm hoping to gain some understanding about that significant moment. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any assistance in building the body of knowledge related to Earth Lights.
So long for now,
Ryan Isaac
The next article is written by an Argentenian Professor of Anthropology, it is a very colorful description