ProcessingALT-2026-1056
Records of the Department of the Air Force and, through it, the Air National Guard units involved, for 1 March through 30 June 1997: (a) flying schedules, sortie/mission records, aircrew flight logs and range-use or range-scheduling records for training missions flown on the Barry M. Goldwater Range on the evening of 13 March 1997, including any night flare-delivery training; (b) munitions or expendables expenditure records showing the type, number and time of illumination flares (e.g. LUU-2 or equivalent) released that evening, and the altitude and coordinates of release; (c) records of the Maryland Air National Guard 104th Fighter Squadron / 175th Wing A-10 detachment deployed to Arizona in March 1997, including deployment orders and the detachment's operations records; (d) the 56th Fighter Wing (Luke AFB) annual or periodic unit history covering the first half of calendar year 1997, and the wing and Air National Guard public-affairs files, press releases, media queries and internal talking points concerning the 13 March 1997 Arizona light sightings; (e) any base or wing incident report, command post log entry, or inquiry into the sightings, and any correspondence with the FAA, the National Guard Bureau or members of Congress about them.
Filed Sep 9, 202633 / 20 business days
FiledALT-2026-1055
Records of the Air Traffic Organization and its 1997 predecessor (Air Traffic Services / Western-Pacific Region, AWP) concerning the evening of 13 March 1997 and the early hours of 14 March 1997, specifically: (a) any continuous data recording, NTAP or equivalent radar target history for Phoenix TRACON (P50), Phoenix Sky Harbor tower and Albuquerque ARTCC (ZAB) sectors covering the Phoenix metropolitan area and the corridor south toward the Barry M. Goldwater Range, 0200Z–0600Z on 14 March 1997; (b) any controller voice recordings, transcripts or reduced-tape transcriptions for those positions in the same window; (c) daily records of facility operation and position/watch logs (FAA Form 7230-4 or successor) for P50, PHX tower and ZAB for 13–14 March 1997; (d) any pilot report, UFO or unidentified-traffic report, or flight-assist record generated at those facilities on those dates, and any transmittal of such a report to another agency; (e) records showing whether any radar or voice media for that period were impounded, retained, copied or transferred, and if not, the records-retention schedule and destruction authority applied to them; (f) correspondence, congressional and public inquiry files, and public-affairs talking points held by the Western-Pacific Regional Office or the Administrator's office concerning the 13 March 1997 Arizona sightings, 13 March 1997 through 31 December 1998. If any category no longer exists, we request the retention schedule, the destruction certification if one exists, and a description of the record systems searched.
Filed Sep 9, 202633 / 20 business days
In reviewALT-2026-1057
All records held by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office concerning the 13 March 1997 Arizona / Phoenix Lights event, 1 July 2022 to the present, including: any case file, case-resolution memorandum, resolution worksheet or insufficient-data determination; the portion of the research files and source citations compiled for the Historical Record Report (Volume I) that relates to the 1997 Phoenix event or to Air National Guard flare-drop explanations of civilian sightings; any legacy records inherited from predecessor efforts (UAP Task Force, AOIMSG) on the event; and any correspondence with the FAA, the Department of the Air Force or the National Guard Bureau seeking 1997 Arizona radar, sortie or flare records.
In reviewALT-2026-1058
A search of accessioned holdings and of records-transfer documentation for material relating to the 13 March 1997 Arizona sightings, covering: (a) any accessioned FAA records in Record Group 237 from the Western-Pacific Region (AWP), Phoenix TRACON, Sky Harbor tower or Albuquerque ARTCC for calendar 1997, including facility logs, correspondence and public-inquiry files; (b) any accessioned Air Force records in Record Group 341 or successor series comprising 56th Fighter Wing histories or Air National Guard unit histories for fiscal or calendar 1997; (c) Standard Form 135 records-transmittal-and-receipt forms, transfer lists and box-content inventories showing what those FAA and Air Force offices retired to a Federal Records Center for the 1997 period, and the disposition (accessioned, destroyed, still agency-owned) of those accessions.