# U.S. Air Force 1997: Luke Air Force Base reply to a Freedom of Information Act request about the lights of 13 March 1997

> 56th Fighter Wing U.S. Air Force, 1997. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The Luke AFB FOIA reply, as an artifact and as evidence that no base…

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# Luke Air Force Base reply to a Freedom of Information Act request about the lights of 13 March 1997

56th Fighter Wing U.S. Air Force, 1997. _Published by The Black Vault_.

The base's letter of 1 May 1997: no records exist, its aircraft that night were on normal training with no part in the lights, and it does not know where the flare explanation came from.

**Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997** **Primary source** LetterCopy of **[Luke Air Force Base reply to a FOIA request about the lights](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/phoenix-lights/artifacts/ART0CQPWE5473PJ/luke-air-force-base-reply-to-a-foia-request-about-the-lights)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The Luke AFB FOIA reply, as an artifact and as evidence that no base record was found.

## The document 3 pages

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## Cited by on this site 2 records

[Luke Air Force Base reply to a FOIA request about the lights: scan](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/phoenix-lights/copies/CPY0CQPWECY70FQ/luke-air-force-base-reply-to-a-foia-request-about-the-lights)

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[The Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/phoenix-lights)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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U.S. Air Force, 5. F. W. (1997). Luke Air Force Base reply to a Freedom of Information Act request about the lights of 13 March 1997. Published by The Black Vault. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-phoenix-lights-incident-march-13th-1997/
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