• Lynne Kitei saw the Phoenix Lights in 1997
• She has been on a quest for answers since then
• The sighting continues to baffle many

(NewsNation) — Decades after a sighting of UFOs that would become known as “the Phoenix Lights,” one witness is still trying, with no success, to find a logical explanation for what she saw.

On March 13, 1999, residents of Phoenix, Arizona, looked up to see orbs of light hovering over the city. The unexplained sighting had tens of thousands of witnesses who described a mile-wide, V-shaped formation of glowing orbs that glided silently across the sky.

One witness, Dr. Lynne Kitei, has spent the past few decades trying to unravel the mystery of the lights she saw in the sky, despite previously being a skeptic.

“I had no interest or knowledge at all in the topic,” she said. “In fact, I kind of stayed away from it.”

After the sighting, Kitei set aside her entire medical career and attempted to find a logical explanation for what she had seen and photographed.

It wasn’t her first sighting of something unexplained. Kitei told NewsNation that in February 1995, she and her husband had seen some strange lights outside their secluded mountain home while looking through a bedroom window.

“Right in front of our eyes, a little lower than our home, were three amber orbs in a pyramid formation hovering, hovering one on top and two closely aligned underneath,” she said.

As the couple watched, Kitei says one of the lights began to shrink until it disappeared. Although she wouldn’t share the feeling until later, Kitei said it felt as if she was being watched.

As a scientist, Kitei said she has tried to document the most credible data on the subject as she can, even when answers are difficult to find.

“What I saw up close and personal — it felt as if there was an intelligence behind it. It was mechanical, and even my pictures cannot be explained,” she said.

When the photographs were later analyzed, Kitei found out that what she and her husband perceived as just moments of time were actually hours based on the skyline.

Then came the Phoenix Lights, seen by many, which kicked off Kitei’s search for answers. Decades later, the lights have not been replicated or explained to people’s satisfaction, despite an official Air Force explanation that they were flares.

That same day, people in Utah, Colorado and Texas also saw similar phenomena. Now, nearly 30 years after the lights were seen, Kitei still hasn’t found her answers, nor have others who have been searching for the same thing.

“I’d love to find out who’s behind it, and I don’t know if it’s military, I don’t know if it’s a runaway civilization. I don’t know if it’s a nonhuman intelligence. But it seems that since then we haven’t seen anything that comes close to these phenomena, plus how it affected the witness at such a deep, profound level,” Kitei said. “It changed their life forever.”