Phoenix Forgotten Page #5

I think something would have developed.

Jay, get in here.

- What's up?

- Have you seen this?

If you'd been here ten years ago

and standing out here and looking up there

at the lights and the view, um,

you would have been astounded.

You would have been amazed.

- Is that the governor?

- Yeah.

Twenty years ago,

he said the lights were a joke.

He had a whole press conference

making fun of them.

And now he's saying

he saw the lights that night.

I got four of 'em.

He's basically admitting he lied.

The former governor,

a Vietnam Air Force veteran,

had never publicly

acknowledged seeing it until now.

And I suspect that...

unless the Defense Department

proves this otherwise,

that it was probably some form

of an alien spacecraft.

And I think as a public figure, you have

to be very careful about what you say,

because people can have

pretty emotional reactions.

Is that him?

Okay, follow me and just keep rolling.

Excuse me, Mr. Garland?

Hi, I'm Sophie Bishop. We spoke on the phone.

I'm sorry, I can't help you.

Right, I just have a couple questions.

You worked for the governor from 1992

until he resigned in '97, is that right?

Sophie, I don't know anything

about your brother.

Okay, what about the Phoenix Lights?

On March 15th, 1997, you went on TV,

and you said that they were military flares.

Did you see the Governor

on CNN saying that was a lie?

You were his press secretary at the time.

Listen, I really am very sorry

about your brother.

We were just trying not to create a panic.

Who told you to lie?

I mean, what if Josh was on to something?

We always assumed he got lost

or kidnapped or...

murdered but what if...

What if he got abducted by aliens?

Jesus, I sound like him, don't I?

So... now what?

I don't know.

I don't know what we're doing here anymore.

Can't believe you're leaving.

It feels like you just got here.

Can I ask you one more question?

Why did you and Dad decide to call it quits?

Sweetheart, everyone's divorced now.

I want to know. Was it Josh's disappearance

or would you guys have split up anyway?

Hello!

You're going to get

your head taken off by one of those.

I want to live here.

- You want to live here?

- Yeah. Maybe.

Josh, you want to stop here?

- Well, how is she?

- She's good.

Just getting ready

for the big move, you know.

Well, please tell her, you know, if she needs

any help or anything, she should call me.

Somebody knows what happened.

Mark didn't just wander off into the desert.

He didn't get lost.

That never made sense to me.

If Josh hadn't gone missing...

do you think you and Mom

would still be together?

Yeah.

What'd she say?

Sweetheart, what happened was

your brother went missing.

Completely missing.

And it took over our lives.

...resources to make sure

these teenagers are found.

If that's true, then what was it,

you know? I don't know.

Is Josh dead? Is he alive?

Was he suffering?

Our relationship became about

all those questions,

and your father, he couldn't do it anymore

and still be the man

that I fell in love with,

and I couldn't do it anymore

and still be his wife.

Everybody keeps criticizing me

for, you know, not dealing with it.

I was the only one who was still out there

trying to figure out

what happened to your brother.

Do you think there's ever going to

be a point where you can let it go, Dad?

I mean, show... show me his body.

- Good to see you.

- Love you.

- I love you, too.

- Okay.

All right. Do me a favor:

When you get home, give me a call, okay?

- Okay.

- Let me know you got in okay.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- We're going to see you Christmas?

- Yeah, I'll see you Christmas.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- All right.

- Love you.

I love you.

- Bye, Dad.

- Bye.

Hi, Sophie, this is Luisa. Luisa Moreno.

We spoke several months ago

at Canyon Park High.

Um... just call me back when you can.

Hi.

- Thank you so much for meeting me.

- Yeah.

Did you have a hard time finding the place?

- No, no, not at all.

- Great.

This place has been on the books

since the late '70s.

Pretty much anything old

or outdated gets thrown in here.

I was throwing away

some garbage over the weekend

and just saw it sitting in the drawer.

Somebody must have thrown it

in here and forgotten about it.

- Can I take this?

- Oh, it's yours.

I know you're excited about this, but...

I just don't want you

to get your hopes up, you know?

Yeah, I know.

Is that a tape?

- Be careful.

- I know.

Okay.

- That's Ashley's handwriting.

- Really?

Holy sh*t.

Hit play.

I'm going to let you do this.

All right, you ready?

Ready.

Soph? Sophie?

Hi.

Sophie Bishop.

I have an appointment with Captain Groves.

IDs please.

Just pull over to the side, ma'am.

I need you to wait right over there.

Okay. Is there a problem?

We should have an appointment.

Yes ma'am.

I need you to wait right over there.

Okay.

What's it been, like an hour?

That's him.

Okay, uh, just stay here, keep it low.

- Miss Bishop?

- Hi.

Hi there.

So we can do the interview

out here or in your office,

whichever you prefer.

It's not gonna happen.

Okay, but... when we spoke on the phone,

you said that it was fine,

so I guess I'm just wondering what

happened that made you change your mind.

I understand.

Did you watch the footage?

Drive safe.

You okay?

Yeah, I just honestly wasn't expecting that.

What did he say?

He said, "Don't let that footage get out."

What do you want to do?

What do you think Josh would do?

This is gonna be rad.

Dude.

- Yeah.

- Look at its eye.

- Yeah.

- This camera is amazing.

- Yo, don't get too close.

- It smells burnt.

It's like males competing for females.

They have the same burns.

Countless stories when UFOs

have been sighted about,

like, animal experimentation.

Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah.

They just got cooked by the sun.

- Woo!

- Oh sh*t.

This way.

- Obviously I'm joking.

- You just said you look like older Leo.

People told me that

when Romeo and Juliet came out.

What, they said that you...

That literally made me

more popular in school.

What are you guys talking about?

- What?

- What are you guys talking about?

You.

Just at the top of that ridge.

We wouldn't be able

to see anything from down here.

Not like we're gonna see

anything up there, either.

Don't be that guy.

We don't need that guy.

You remember where we parked the car, right?

Uh... yeah. It's... that a-way.

- Ooh, Josh.

- Oh sh*t.

Come look at this.

- What do you got?

- Whoa.

Petroglyphs.

Oh!

Guess this means we're on the right track.

Wow. Ancient graffiti.

Now what you see below me

are Native American petroglyphs.

They were probably put here

hundreds of years ago

by the Apache.

They were native to these lands,

very adept at living

in these mountainous regions.

Uh...

the spiral shape that you see below us...

historians aren't quite sure

what it could have represented.

It could have represented ripples in water,

things that they saw in the sky.

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