Two separate events across ~300 mi (NV line → Phoenix → Tucson), 7:30–10:30 pm. (1) ~8:00–8:45 pm: a V or 'carpenter's square' of five lights moving slowly southeast, reported from Henderson, NV to Prescott Valley and Glendale (the Ley family; actor Kurt Russell reported it to ATC). Amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley saw individual airplanes through a telescope; attributed to five A-10s of Operation Snowbird returning to Davis-Monthan. (2) ~10:00 pm: a row of 'hovering' lights over Phoenix, the most-photographed part; LUU-2B/B illumination flares dropped by Maryland ANG A-10s (104th FS) over the Goldwater Range, blinking out behind the Sierra Estrella. Pilot Lt. Col. Ed Jones confirmed in 2007. Gov. Fife Symington mocked it at a press conference with an aide in an alien suit, then in 2007 said he saw a craft 'bigger than anything I've ever seen' and had stayed silent to avoid panic.