09:52 AM Mountain Standard Time on Tuesday, March 2, 2004

By NewsChannel 3 / azfamily.com staff

Lynne Kitei

Dr. Lynne Kitei says she shot this photo in the fall of 2001.

UFOs, fact or fiction?

We have a history of unexplained phenomena here in Arizona.

For example, remember the "Phoenix lights" from 1997. The woman who shot videotape of the lights has remained anonymous for the last seven years. But now she's ready to be revealed, because she apparently has more extraordinary information to share.

Her name is Lynne Kitei and she is known as Dr. Lynne to many. She and her husband are prominent physicians in the Valley.

And from their north Phoenix mountainside home, they saw those Phoenix lights.

Not only on March 13, 1997, but for two years before that.

"I'm just doing the best I can with what I have. That's all I can do with this," she said of the now-famous world video of the mysterious lights over Phoenix in 1997.

The shots came from her camera on the balcony outside her bedroom.

The very next day, she gave up the tape, but not her identity, preferring to wait until she knew what the lights in the sky were. She says she has more tape and picture after picture of similar lights in the Phoenix sky on many other occasions.

"It's not just some lights … Actually the first sighting was in 1995 without any interest or knowledge at all in this subject matter," she said.

In January and February 1995, she took photos of amber-colored orbs in the sky.

In 1997, two months before the main sighting, two formations, and then the familiar "V" shape.

In 2001, a month after Sept. 11, she took a photo with a higher resolution camera showing three definite orbs over Phoenix.

A year later in 2002, three lights appeared once again.

Jim Dilletoso has more than 20 years as a paranormal investigator, using top-level equipment for analysis.

Naturally, other alleged UFO sightings from all over the world drew Kitie's attention.

"It took a lot of soul searching over the last seven years to feel comfortable enough to come forward with what I have," she said.

And through that soul search, Kitei found the answer.

"Something has been going on for a very long time and we're not hearing about it or it's being denied and it needs to get out there," she said. "We need to get this out in the open."

Kitei is not only going public with her identity, her new book "The Phoenix Lights" hits bookstores next Friday, the seventh anniversary of the big sighting.