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"THE PHOENIX LIGHTS" MOVIE WINS BEST DIRECTOR AWARD AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

By Harold Egeln

New York, NY, May 25, 2005 -- :The Phoenix Lights" has won the Best Director Award of the New York International Flm Festival. The amazing 80-minute feature documentary had its New York City debut on May 2 at the Village East Cinema. It is based on the book, "The Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone" by Dr. Lynne Kitei, M.D., and was produced and directed by Steve Lantz Productions. It was shown as part of The New York International Film and Video Festival.

It was the second UFO-related film shown in New York City in the past half-year. This past December, in a memorial tribute to the late and greatly missed Dr. John Mack, "Touched" by Laurel Chiten's Blind Dog Films was shown, about Dr. Mack's work and close encounter witnesses. It first debuted in Cambridge, Massachusetts two years ago.

Those who attended the U.S. East Coast premier of "The Phoenix Lights" were treated to a well-researched, enlightening and intense documentary by "Dr. Lynne," which is also available on DVD.

The ground-breaking movie features 44 credible eye-witnesses, professionals of all kinds including psychologists and scientists, of the mysterious lights and object(s) which appeared over Phoenix in Arizona on the evening of March 13, 1997, puzzling many thousands of people who watched them appear dramatically and move over the city.

The event got worldwide media coverage and generated lots of controversy as to their cause. Also, there were sightings before and since, related in the film.

Dr. Kitei, an internationally-acclaimed physician and before that an actor in theater, movies and TV films, witnessed, videotaped and photographed them before and after March 13, while others did so on the night of the mass sighting. It launched her on a life-changing seven year investigative journey seeking out witnesses and enriching her own inner life in doing so. Before she revealed her identity, she was known as "Dr. X."

In a review of Dr. Kitei's book, Lee Earle of "UFO Research Queensland" in Australia writes: "It's a sad fact of our society that witnesss of unexplained pehenomena feel the need for diplomacy, tact and sadly, secrecy." That is a feeling and a fact that many of us who are UFO witnesses know all too well.

The Phoenix Lights were not Dr. Kitei's first UFO sighting. In February 1995 she and her husband, also a physician, watched three orbs, three to six feet wide, in a triangular formation over their house in Paradise Valley. And, again, on January 22, 1997 she saw UFOs, as well a on other ocassions.

Ever since her first sighting ten years ago, Dr. Kitei felt motivated to learn more about what she had witnessed and to educate the general public about UFOs and related anomalies, under the heading of "Unexplained Phenomena," which includes inter-related subjects.

The Phoenix Lights, flying in a triangular formation or part of a triangular shaped object, moved her forward even more. Several witnesss, writes Earle, sensed "purpose and power inherent in this object," a feature some UFO witnesses described, as it the source behind the object was aware of them watching.

Ironically, this remarkable mass UFO sighting occured in the 50th anniversary year of the Roswell, New Mexico incident of July 1947.

To come out in public, first as an author with her book and, now, with her film, which premiered a few months ago back home, Dr. Kitei has taken a courageous step which cannot be taken back. She has faced criticism from both debunkers and a few within Ufology, all, unfortunately. undeserved and unwarrented. She is the Chief Clinical Consultant at the world-famous Arizona Heart Instittute Imaging-Prevention-Wellness Center in Phoenix, and heads a prestigous health education center.

As a health educator, Dr. Kitei has been well-known for her TV spots and programs on NBC stations beginning a quarter-of-a-century ago. People who know her call Dr. Kitei a brilliant, compassionate and transformative person. She brings all that into her book and movie, the later thanks to the work of producer Steve Lantz.

Of her TV work, one reviewer noted that "TV Guide" once called her a "woman pioneer of medical communication" for her NBC shows. Dr. Kitei is listed in "Who's Who Among American Women."

From her bio, this is said of her previous work: "Before her medlcal training, Dr. Lynne appeared in over 30 movies, in featured and starring roles in professional musical comedies, including 'Alice In Wonderland' with Sherman Hemsley (in a Philadelphia production), 'Oklahoma' with Gordon MacRae, and 'Guys and Dolls' starring Betty Grable." She also played "Florence Arizona" in the movie, "Raising Arizona."

The Phoenix Lights, after eight years, remain unexplained, despite a failed military effort to disprove them and the mass media downplaying, dismissing and debunking them. The deeply affecting testimony of the witnesses shown in the movie is utterly remarkable, sincere and credible, and the mystery of the lights' engmatiic origins remains an open question.

In the links below we include two excellent articles from Phoenix daily newspapers, one of which was about her talk at a conference at a medical university with Dr. John Mack and a screening of "Touched" (in the "Arizona Daily Wildcat" by Sarah Stanton, 2/24/04) and the other article in "The Arizona Republic" by Jan Jacobsen (3/19/04). Dr. Kitei does not know what the Lights are, except something very extraordinary, which she ponders in her book and now her film, of which she the executive producer.

And, again, it is crucial witness testimony, in her amazing book and movie, that speaks of that astounding unsolved mystery, along with the extensive research into the "Lights" and the meaningful context in which they appeared, -- personally, culturally, historically and geographically.

Perhaps it is fitting that a heart imaging physician did this research, a former skeptic driven by scientific and, yes, spiritual curiosity to find out and share what she has learned with the public about what was seen on March 13, 1997, and the unseen forces and sources behind the remarkable display.

"What is essential is invisible to the eyes," said the gentle boy from another world in the classic book, "The Little Prince." "It is only with the heart that one rightly sees."

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[NOTE: Photo above, taken by Posey Gilbert, shows, left to right, Harold Egeln, Dr. Lynne Kitei and producer Steve Lantz after the movie screening.]

THE PHOENIX SYMBOLISM & THE "WONDERLAND" LINKAGE By Harold Egeln New York City, April 27, 2005 -- Before posting an announcement about "The Phoenix Lights" movie announcement here, I read "Dr. Lynne's" bio about her movie and TV film career, I was startled when it was mentioned that she appeared in a stage production of "Alice In Wonderland.". With all the endless synchronistic inter-connections between UFOs, close encounters and space with "Wonderland" and its White Rabbit in the ongoing "WOW! Contact" over the last five years, Dr. Lynne Kitei had to have that WONDERLAND Connection, -- although I wasn't looking for it nor expecting it. A true test of scientific inquiry is predictability and patterns, and we got it with "The Phoenix Lights" now, adding to our "Project Wonderland Chronicles" accounts. In the excellent review of Dr. Kitei's book by Lee Earle of "UFO Research Queensland," Earle notes of what Dr. Kitei sees as the "intrinsically interconnected" UFO anomalies with other "Unexplained Phenomena," an all-encompassing term Dr. Kitei calls "UP." "Examples are provided (in the book)," writes Earle, "by the blatant SYNCHRONICITY implicit with UFO and ET encounters, the notion that people are put into our paths for specific purposes and that we have a greater connection to this world and this universe." This we have learned through our intensive "WOW! Contact" experiences. It is a strange mere coincidence, too, that The Lewis Carroll Society of North America (of which I am a member) is having its semi-annual meeting on April 30 in New York City two days before the movie's showing here. RECENT UFO SIGHTINGS SYNCHRONICITIES There appears also to be a synchronistic inter-connection with the recent UFO sightings in Vermont, New England and Cambridge, England, as noted in our Exclusive Reports of the huge cigar-and-triangular shaped UFOs on Page Two of this Close Encounters News (see below). The UFO witnessed by Kathy Nelson on the night of April 11 happened in the Vermont village of Island Pond, also known as BRIGHTON. That morning I had to travel by bus in Brooklyn through BRIGHTON Beach, next to CONEY ISLAND (site of the UFOs in TRIANGUALR formations sighting of September 1995 which later set-off the "WOW! Contact" events), to get to the newspaper office on the first day of my new reporting job. In my own research following Nelson's astounding UFO sighting, also witnessed by another person that night, discovered later, I found similar sightings around that period, thanks to the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle. One was in Cambridge, England on April 17. After Nelson saw that report, among the six I posted, she realized that she was stationed at an RAF base in Cambridge over 25 years ago when she was in the U.S. Air Force. The daytime UFO reported by the four witnesses, including an ex-RAF pilot, in Cambridge was similar to Nelson's night-time UFO. Of the six UFO sighting reports that I posted here nearly a week ago, one was in PHOENIX, Arizona, also, by strange coincidence, on April 17. There a witness saw three cigar-shared UFOs at 11:30 at night. The UFOs had blue-yellow illuminators, hovered and then disappeared at great speed, according to the witness. He felt that the UFOs were aware of his presence. Shortly after the sighting he suffered physical effects: nausea, headache, vomiting and circular red marks on his back. So, centered around Kathy Nelson's UFO sighting of April 11 in Vermont, we had the meaningful connections to Brighton (Island Pond) and Brighton Beach by Coney Island, Cambridge in England, and Phoenix, all seemingly TIMED and STAGED for various people in diverse places who do not know one another. And all this has happened before the showing of Dr. Lynne Kitei's movie screening on May 2 in New York City. "DR. LYNNE IN WONDERLAND" & THE PHOENIX AS THE "CHESHIRE RABBIT" And, of course, Dr. Kitei's acting career included a role in an "Alice In Wonderland" musical stage production. When the White Rabbit blows a trumpet in "Wonderland," he is wearing clothing with heart designs, kind of a connection with Dr. Kitei being a physician with a heart imaging center. "The Phoenix Lights" documentary is not happening in isolation but in a meaningful context, discovered by heightened awareness and extraordinary experiences, all "intrinscically inter-connected." The image, mythology and symbolism of the PHOENIX itself is significant, and we include some websites about that below. Rising from the ashes, rebirth, resurrection and new creation are all involved in the Phoenix mythology, along with the Thunderbird legend. It was famed abductee Betty Andreasson-Luca who recalled during one of her UFO abductions many years ago, being taken before a giant bird or eagle, who caught fire and turned to ashes, and then arose from those ashes -- an event that the "aliens" wanted her to experience. This same type of event also happened to well-known UFO artist David Huggins, who portrayed it in one of his many paintings. Our symbolism of the RABBIT involves rebirth and new creation. The other night I had a dream of viewing a painting of a sky seen with huge white birds high up. As I looked downward, they turned into floating White Rabbits, artist M. C. Escher-style. The day before (Sunday, April 24) I was at the surrealist Max Ernst retrospective at the Metroploitan Museum of Art, and apparently this influenced my dream. But the significance of the dream were its BIRD images changing into RABBITS. "Dr. Lynne" and Kathy Nelson have, once again for us, taken us into an all-new ADVENTURE IN WONDERLAND, through the LOOKING-GLASS known as UFOs, flying on the wings of the TRICKSTER PHOENIX, our "Cheshire Cat" or "Schrondinger's Cheshire Rabbit" --- through the WINGED MESSENGER (Hermes, Mercury) of "THE PHOENIX LIGHTS." ********************************************************

THE PHOENIX IN WONDERLAND SYNCHRONICITIES: "The Order of the Phoenix"

by Harold Egeln

New York City, June 1, 2005 -- There have been several unexpected synchronicites recently in connection with "The Phoenix Lights" movie.

*** Sunday, May 1, 2005 -- I saw "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" movie today at the Village East Cinema, the same theater where I would see "The Phoenix Lights" the next evening. After the openng sequence with the DOLPHINS where they leave the Earth, saying "Thanks for the fish," two animals are shown: First a BIRD and then a HARE or RABBIT, and then ARTHUR Dent's home is shown. The bird made me think of the PHOENIX and the HARE or RABBIT of how often the RABBIT appears in movies about SPACE or ETs!!

*** Monday, May 2, 2005 -- Today at was at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's office, where I will be doing business news reports for its newspaper, "Brooklyn's Progress." I opened the newspaper to pages two and three, and in the corner of page three was an ad for "PHOENIX," a housekeeping and office cleaning service!

*** Monday, May 2, 2005 -- Just prior to the showing of "The PHOENIX Lights" this evenng, there was a short film called "Mr. Happiness," abut a street enetertainer in LAS VEGAS, Nevada. During a taping he did for a car dealership, there is someone there dressed in a WHITE RABBIT costume, making our Rabbit syncs connection, not in a space or UFO movie, but just prior to one!

*** Friday, May 6, 2005 -- An item I received today on TodayonSpace.com was about "India's Launch of a Remote Sensory Satellite. When clicking on the item the first item that popped up was an ad for the "University of PHOENIX Onlne."

*** [--- Friday, May 6, 2005 -- Anders von Bergen, from Finland (see the "Project Wonderland Chronicles" S.P.A.C.E. e-book), reports his latest syncs in the "Phoenix and Alice." He reports seeing three running hares running across the road by his home and reversing their run when he mentally requested it, a dream of his pupil Alice and on the PHOENIX as an ancient Egyptian figure, a bennu, and its connection to the soul or "ka" of the god Ra. ---]

*** Sunday, May 8, 2005 -- After having dinner at the Frontier Restaurant on Third Avenue and East 39th Street, with its Southwest U.S. (New Mexico, Arizona) decor and wall paintngs, I passed The PHOENIX Garden Chinese Restaurant on East 40th Street, between Third and Second Avenues.

*** Saturday, May 14, 2005 -- I attended a meeting of The Mars Society of New York today at the Epiphany Branch of the New York Public Library, The speaker, President Ed Fisher, mentioned the International Mars Society's role in the next robotic mission to Mars, the PHOENIX Scout Program, to be launched in 2007. Fitting in with the "WHITE RABBIT" syncs was a glass bookcase displa in the room of a stuffed toy RABBIT for the book "Thell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep" by Joyce Dunbar and Debi Gliod.

*** Wednesday, May 25, 2005 -- This afternoon I had to visit the office of State Senator Carl Andrews on Flatbush Avenue in Kensington Brooklyn. I had never been there before. As I arrived at his office, I noticed across the street a store: The PHOENIX GIFT Shop, on the corner of Midwood Street at Flatbush Avenue. When I got home, I looked at Whitley Striebers website's News section, where I saw that "The PHOENIX Lights" movie won the Best Director Award at the New York International Film Festival.

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"THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX"

Are Harry Potter and the wizards of Hogswart lurking around?

All of a sudden, we are getting "PHOENIX Synchronicities" centered around the screening of "The Phoenix Lights" movie

These new "syncs" are unusual associations playing out in real time and places, beyond mere chance, and in contexts that associate meaningfully. This is consistent to the RABBIT images in the "WOW! Contact" experiences, a pattern of the "WOW! Contact," as reported in the "Project Wonderland Chronicles." The RABBIT, as reported above, has even gotten into the PHOENIX act!