
Estrellas and moon over Phoenix
This is real stuff, except for the treasure part. Although I have gotten E-mails from far away as Australia asking about the Treasure of Montezumas Head, I must say that these are only a nice stories to tell over the camp fire. There ain't nothin there that involves gold or silver (and if there were, would I tell you?)
I do know something about mines, petrographs, UFOs, airplane wrecks, massacre sites and other tall tales of the Estrellas. When I find time and extract the materials from the 250 or so articles and documentrs I have on the region (around 2005 or so) I will put them here. Until then, I would settle for a good road map showing roads (if you dare call them that) in the back areas of the Estrellas.
This section will dedicate a paragraph or two to each of the following subjects (as I find time):

WARNING: Do not go the Estrella backcountry without being prepared! (for the worst). This is the voice of experience. The two boys and I almost died out there once, a matter of no water (a long and ugly story!). I never though it would happen to me. I had to shoot old Sam because he was drinking all the water and then refused to walk. The famous photographer John Annerino almost suffered the same fate in the Estrellas. Also, be aware that the roads are not anything to write home about. You will get your car scratched up and you may get stuck in the sand or a washed-out ravine. Always take water, food, shovels and jackets! It can get real cold between October to March. Did I mention snakes? Oh yes, a good portion of the area belongs to the Pimas, and they ask you to be respectful of their land and heritage. Do not discharge firearms on the reservation. Last but not least, anyone leaving beer cans, glass or other foreign objects is in real trouble. If you happen to have a can of spray paint, I personnally will cut off your little fingers and feed them to the scorpions.
Anyway, I am not into elves, bigfoot or flying objects, but as a certified Estrella mountain expert, I felt the need to look into the matter. After all, if the Estrellas are gound zero for our link with planet Malukium in the Besterol galaxy, I should know about it. There are several hundred sites on the Internet that debate all aspects of the Phoenix Lights. While many so-called experts offer the simplistic and ridiculous explanation that the objects observed were flares dropped by a visiting Air National Guard unit in a training area southwest of Phoenix, a more serious and technical analysis of the events on that fateful night lead me to the firm conviction that the Phoenix lights were, beyond any doubt, nothing less than the 3D manifestation of at least 8 giant UFOs manuvering between physical space and hyperspace through a transdimensional field egress channel in a magnobirutanium vortex situated 3,141.59 centimeters (about 110 yards) above the central Sierra Estrellas. In fact, ancient Pima indian folklore abounds with references to strange expanding and contracting "day star lights" and "moon fire" sightings and nonhuman phantasmic apparitions in the area, usually referred to as "mothmen" or "winged spirits".

What people saw that night... Malukium spaceships lined up to enter the transdimensional egress channel above Estrellas. (The sole ship on the left, piloted by the only male Malukium in the convoy, obviously missed the channel because he did not ask for directions at the local Circle K)
To the normal viewer, the Phoenix Lights appeared to be some kind of luminous objects floating in the dark shy. In reality, to the UFO expert, what was seen that night was the residual manifestation resulting from space vehicles moving into the Estrella egress channel. This process, which can take up to 10 minutes depending on the size of the vehicle and the palhacodium-nuclear forces employed by it to reach proper neuroequilibrium energy levels for transdimensional hyperspacial travel, leaves a small proble (a point of light) in the visual component of the electo-magnetic spectrum, even when the Malukiums utilize paragonic-siliencium dampers to shield the luminosity. These visible pulsating globes are the result of a very complex process wherein gravitational and time-space continuam waves are processed by the semitheorium reactors in the vehicle, creating heliquium-phasor based pluriform sub-particle impluses that under certain atmospheric conditions are visible to the human naked eye. This application of basic scientific principles makes it possible for space beings to travel between worlds and the seven known dimensions as easily as we go from the kitchen to the bedroom. It is a wonder that all 3 million people in the Phoenix area weren't melted to the bone, given the magnitude of cosmic energy deployed that night by the Malukiums. Unfortunately, transamplimatic tachyon-theorium based time and space travel only works well with sylicon-paraneolaminoid-hypoacid multi-cayardeoid life forms such the Malukium "peoples" that have been utilizing the Estrella Hyperdimensional Atmostructure transporter for almost 500 years. Tests conducted with captive primative humanoid carbon based life forms seem to indicate a nonephemeral inflamation and flotsaming of cerebral tissues occurs when subjected to any prolonged research on this subject.
I hope this explanation clears up any questions about the events commonly referred to as the "Phoenix Lights" in non-technical media. There is also a good analysis of the whole incident by Tony Ortega in the Phoenix New Times mag, also found at www.rickross.com/reference/ufo4.html.
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For more information on the Sierra Estrellas check out these pages here:
The Story of the Estrellas
Maricopa Wells and the stage route
Old Charts of Region
The Old Spanish Mine
Maps of the Estrella Mountains
The Patio - the most historic area of Estrellas