Phoenix-Flare

I think these are nearly finished mixes. Hope you enjoy them. Chris & I had a great day working through the real details of the tracks ready to give you a preview of what we have been working on.

Whilst caught in the web of contemporary delusions we end up creating work which mimics the side-shows in the postmodern carnival; aping the ‘norms’ and forms in The Desert of the Real. Do we seek illusory relevance or an authenticity which leads to credibility? If we choose relevance, then we become mere mimics. If we choose authenticity, then we become creators of imaginative landscapes through which others can travel. Our concern is creating future landscapes, not attempting to follow the winds of fleeting trends in the here and now. We generate the possibility of redemption, we do not add to postmodern turbulence.

I write about the mysterious Phoenix lights in the night sky 10 years ago. My husband and I were out flying that night in the vicinity of the Stanfield VOR. We clearly saw the flares to our west, over the Goldwater range – a familiar sight to my husband. However, there was a second set of lights that night – the V-shaped formation that was initially shown on film by the local TV networks. That formation, whatever it was, flew directly over us at a much higher altitude than the flares. At the time, we thought it was some sort of military flight, but that never appears to have been acknowledged. I am sure someone knows the truth about those lights, but, please, don’t insult our intelligence by telling us they were flares

The lights were reported to have reappeared in 2007 and 2008, but these events were quickly attributed to (respectively) military flares dropped by fighter aircraft at Luke Air Force Base and flares attached to helium balloons released by a civilian

As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I’d ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation

I’ll never be the same. Before this, if anybody had 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

Parachuted flares do not hover motionless in the sky. They fall, slowly, but the fall is perceptible as recent military flares over Phoenix demonstrated. If you’ve seen the video of the Phoenix lights, they are not descending at all. They are hovering