From First Contact To Full-Scale Invasion: Phoenix Lights Festival Has Grown Into Something More Outlandish Than The Myth From Which It Stems

Over the past couple years music festivals have grown infectiously in popularity all over the world. There’s just something about the energy in the air when large groups of incredible souls all gather together for the love of one thing. And when that thing is something as powerful as music, and that large group of people consist of hundreds of thousands of people, I can’t lie, its pretty amazing.

Some of the most popular EDM festivals in the United States are TomorrowWorld, Ultra Music Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival, Mysteryland, and many more, and now Arizona has started to get a taste as well.

Phoenix Lights Festival got its start last year in March. It got its name from a myth about five lights in the sky that had everyone convinced they were UFO’s. On March 13th 1997, hundreds, and perhaps thousands of witnesses reported seeing a large v-shaped craft, over a mile across with unusual lights, travel slowly and silently by at a very low altitude. Some witnesses who reported being directly underneath it as it passed, said it drifted right over the housetops, so close it seemed they could almost touch it. At least one air traffic controller at Sky Harbor Airport admitted in a televised news interview that he saw the lights from the tower using binoculars, but did not see anything on radar

In 2015 Phoenix Lights Festival took place as a one day event at Phoenix Civic Space Park with 7 artists including Zeds Dead, Hardwell, Jauz, Kill The Buzz, Route 94, Lane 8, and Second City with two stages. After a year went by the festival expanded to two days in length with 20 artists and moved to a bigger venue. The headliners included Kaskade, Eric Prydz, Dj Snake, and Excision along with other acts like Claude Von Stoke, Ephwurd, MK, Tritonal, Yellow Claw, 4B, Bakermat, Black Tiger Sex Machine, Cut Snake, Dr Fresch, Drezo, Ghastly, Illenium, Jai Wolf, SNBRN, and Troyboi. The festival brought a variety of genres and feels for the crowd and I can’t wait to see what it turns into next year.

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