It could be ..........................

1) you actually saw it

2) hallucinations

3)goverment project

4) as the others said a pet

or something else..........

The whole question is juvenile. Who would actually believe that a mythological bird is real? with all due repsect..

Does anyone know where the Myth of the Pheonix originated?

The bird could have been anything and i think it being a realy uncommon tropical bird is more likely than it being a Pheonix.

It could also have been a haluscination.

the image you saw can be many thigs but their coud be another explination and it aint spiratual. The phoenix or the fire bird wouldn't just have appeared why hasn't anyone else seen one but anyway the only way you can find info and read about the phoenix in things under Aztecs and other indeginous group because it is said that a ird of fire is one of their GODS.

[edit on 9-3-2005 by Roberto Flores]

was this it?

Maybe it was a memory created from within a detailed dream... I know i have them. If i really get intrested or cought up in somethin i tend to dream about them in serious detail... Then later sometimes months some times years... I cant remeber the fact from fiction it seems as if the dreams are really memories and really did happen.... But after a long session of relaxation i can remember it was a dream NOT a memory...

Maybe this is your case maybe not just giving an opppinionated guess...