This caught our attention on a recent visit to downtown Phoenix locales. Several of the signs were taped to a wall on West Adams Street, just north of the Wells Fargo Plaza.



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Glass cases full of "alleged UFO evidence" were on display at the 2011 International UFO Congress

​Joe Arpaio may be notorious for pursuing illegal aliens, but Arizona played home to those hunting a different type of alien -- or at least their spaceships -- this past weekend.

The Radisson Fort McDowell Resort, just north of Fountain Hills on SR-87, was the host of the 20th annual International UFO Congress between Wednesday and Sunday, drawing hundreds of amateur Fox Mulders and Dana Scullys from around the world.

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Wanna go for a ride?

​Anyone in the market for a morbid piece of history is in luck: the ambulance used to drive President John F. Kennedy following his assassination is for sale.

The Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction, to be held later this month, has added the JFK ambulance to the inventory of cool cars to be auctioned off at this year's Scottsdale auction.

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Clay Duke. Go Sun Devils!

​What do Barry Bonds, Phil Mickelson, and the guy who shot up the school board meeting in Florida yesterday all have in common? They're all Sun Devils.

Turns out, 56-year-old Clay Duke, who fired several rounds at members of the Bay District school board at a meeting near Panama City, Florida, yesterday, graduated from ASU in 1988 with a degree in recreation and tourism management, ASU spokeswoman Julie Newberg confirms to New Times.

Luckily, Duke's aim is about as accurate as Mickelson's when Lefty's putting for birdie, so nobody was hurt -- except Duke, who managed to kill himself after failing to kill anyone else in the room, despite firing about 20 rounds.


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​A cremationist in Bisbee is a cremationist no more -- the state board that oversees the funeral industry revoked his license to cremate remains after the chilling discovery of two open pits filled with thousands of human bones was found on the property of a cemetery he owns last month.

The Arizona Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers suspended the license of Paul Parker, the owner of Memory Gardens Cemetery, after he admitted to taking bones meant for cremation and dumping them in two, large, open pits.

The bones were discovered last month by a couple looking for a relative's grave. When they got to the grave, they discovered the headstone had been moved to an area behind some brush. When they found the headstone, they also made the gruesome discovery.

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William Willis

​The man who police discovered had built a secret, underground room in his backyard has been formally indicted by a Maricopa County grand jury and, as improbable as it may seem, new details about the case have once again made it even weirder than we originally thought.

William Willis, 45, was indicted on 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after police discovered -- among other things -- a treasure chest of kiddy-porn at his house in Peoria.


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Police say Dale Graham, 94, molested at least two children.

​We didn't think a story about a 94-year-old man roaming around a trailer park allegedly feelin' up kids could get any more bizarre, but (guess what?) it just did.

We spoke to Payson police Chief Donald Engler yesterday who told us about 94-year-old Dale Warren Graham.

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​A Utah man apparently has seen too many "extreme" Mountain Dew commercials.

Bill Heaner, a 49-year-old "professional extreme athlete," plans on attempting a world-record-breaking stunt that defies all laws of gravity and common sense: he plans to jump out of a hot-air balloon, paragliding for a little while and landing back in the balloon as it hovers thousands of feet above the ground.

We only had one question for Heaner: "Are you fucking nuts?"

He was happy to provide us with an answer: "It's just another day at the office."

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The following are 10 random things that, at the start of this weird decade, we never would have believed:

​1. That the historically pathetic Arizona Cardinals would move out to bumfuck Egypt (a.k.a. Glendale, a.k.a. sweet deal), and then would (at the end of the decade) find themselves exactly one play from winning the damned Super Bowl.

2. That Rick Romley, the conservative and often-maligned (by New Times, anyway) Maricopa County Attorney for 16 years would look like a saint (metaphorically, i.e. that's Romley in the photo) in comparison to his successor, the zealot Andrew Peyton Thomas.

3. That Bobby Khan, a semi-wild and crazy guy we met when he was working as a grunt firefighter at Station 21, in south Phoenix, would become the chief -- and a good one -- of the nation's fifth-largest city.

4. That an insignificant minor-league bully named Russell Pearce would finagle his way into such a powerful position in the Arizona Legislature.

5. That light rail actually would happen, and be pretty flippin' cool.

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Arizona Republic clip of "Phoenix Lights"

​Remember when many Phoenicians saw UFOs? Even former Governor Fife Symington eventually fessed up to seeing the giant, V-shaped formation of lights cruising slowly through the sky

The so-called "Phoenix lights, appeared suddenly on the night of March 3, 1997, and just as suddenly disappeared.

Now, nearly 10 years later, we finally know what they were: Angels. Or aliens. Take your pick.

At least that's what director Daniel Pace wants us to think. His sci-fi mystery thriller, The Appearance of a Man, explores what -- or who -- the strange lights that suddenly appeared on the night of March 3, 1997, actually were.

Pace, who also wrote the movie, based the script on interviews from witnesses of the event.

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