Editing UFO conspiracy theories (section)

====Phoenix Lights and Heaven's Gate====
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[[File:Phoenix Lights triangle.svg|thumb|right|A drawing of the Phoenix Lights]] 
On March 13, 1997, there were widespread reports of unidentified lights over Nevada and Arizona. Days later, 39 members of UFO group Heaven's Gate were found dead in a mass suicide.

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. 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". According to Symington, "I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people... I don't know why people would ridicule it".<ref name="Beal">{{cite web |last1=Beal |first1=Tom |title=UFOs flew over Phoenix in '97, Symington says |url=https://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/ufos-flew-over-phoenix-in-97-symington-says/article_9b90333a-4280-5288-9f4b-f1034df5d833.html |website=tucson.com |date=23 March 2007 |publisher=Arizona Daily Star |access-date=28 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Jon |last=Shanks |title=National Ledger – Former Arizona Gov. Admits UFO Sighting On Night of Phoenix Lights |url=http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272612175.shtml |date=March 18, 2007 |access-date=2007-03-19 |archive-date=2007-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320204243/http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272612175.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Hammons |title=Former Arizona governor says he saw 'Phoenix Lights' UFO |url=http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=22360 |publisher=American Chronicle |date=March 18, 2007 |access-date=2007-03-19 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721004535/http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/22360 |archive-date=July 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last =Cooper |first =Anderson |author-link =Anderson Cooper |title=Anderson Cooper 360° Blog |publisher =CNN|date =March 21, 2007| url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/03/former-governor-says-he-saw-ufo.html
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