Who they are
Tony Ortega is the journalist who wrote the 1998 Phoenix New Times investigation The Hack and the Quack. His reporting distinguished different parts of the Phoenix Lights episode and examined witness accounts, telescope observations and military explanations. He appears here because that distinction helps prevent separate sightings from being treated as one uniform event.
His work supplies contemporaneous follow-up reporting and competing explanations for the Phoenix Lights.
Selected contributions
- Reported the distinction between moving formations and the later flare display in 1998.Source ↗
Selected works
Journalism · 1998
The Hack and the Quack
Ortega investigates competing accounts of the Phoenix Lights, separating the earlier moving lights from the later widely filmed display. His reporting discusses telescope testimony, military explanations and the problem of combining distinct observations into one event.
Reading scope & citation
Reused prior inspected evidence: Passages beginning About 8:30; Although hundreds; Within days; But questions remain
In the timeline
Biography sources & portrait credit
- The Hack and the Quack ↗Phoenix New Times
Portrait credit
TonyO94. CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
