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Mystery helicopter hovers over Tempe neighborhood
Mystery helicopter hovers over Tempe neighborhood
by Lisa Halverstadt - Dec. 24, 2008 11:38 AM
The Arizona Republic
At about 2 a.m. last Friday, some Tempe residents were awakened by a helicopter circling over their neighborhood near McClintock Drive and Guadalupe Road. About 200 of them called Tempe police.
On Saturday morning, that helicopter returned. Tempe police dispatchers fielded about 100 calls.
But as of late Tuesday,no one could say just who was flying that helicopter or why it was hovering over a south central Tempe neighborhood.
The helicopter had been registered as a "military flight" but it's been difficult to learn much more, said Oddvar Tveit, an environmental quality specialist for the city of Tempe.
No, that helicopter wasn't from the Luke Air Force Base or Border Patrol or the National Guard or the Phoenix Federal Bureau of Investigation, officials told The Republic.
Representatives from the Tucson-based Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Fort Huachuca in southeastern Arizona, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local police departments denied their involvement too. The Scottsdale bureau of the Federal Aviation Administration refused comment when contacted Tuesday.
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