| Subject: Mexico Air Force Video Creates UFO Stir... |
| From: "Neil" <paradoxer@lykose.com> |
| Date: 12/05/2004, 02:50 |
| Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo,alt.rock-n-roll.ufo,alt.ufo.reports,alt.fan.rawilson,alt.mexico |
Linked by Drudge Report, to
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5109891
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Air Force has released footage of what a UFO
expert said were 11 invisible unidentified flying objects picked up by an
infrared camera as they whizzed around a surveillance plane.
A long-time believer in flying saucers, journalist Jaime Maussan told a news
conference on Tuesday the objects were real and seemed "intelligent" after they
at one point changed direction and surrounded the plane chasing them.
"They were invisible to the eye but they were there, there is no doubt about it.
They had mass, they had energy and they were moving about," he said, after
showing a 15-minute video he said the Defense Ministry gave him permission to
publicize.
The ministry confirmed to Reuters it had provided the video, filmed by the Air
Force on March 5 over the eastern coastal state of Campeche.
"We are not alone! This is so weird," one of the pilots can be heard yelling,
after the plane's crew switched on an infrared camera to track the objects,
first picked up by radar.
The film, recorded by a plane looking for drugs trafficking near the Gulf of
Mexico, shows 11 objects as blobs of light that hover in formation or dart
about, sometimes disappearing into cloud.
Mexico's most popular nightly news broadcast showed the video on Monday night.
Interviewed by Mausson on another section of the video, the pilots said they
grew nervous when the objects, still invisible, turned back during a chase and
surrounded the plane.
"There was a moment when ... the screens showed they were behind us, to the left
and in front of us. It was at that point that I felt a bit tense," said Maj.
Magdaleno Castanon.
Mexico has a long history of fanciful UFO sightings, most of which are dismissed
by scientists as space debris, missiles, weather balloons, natural weather
phenomena or hoaxes.
© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. [except of course, it not being quoted on
Usenet]
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Note that just because the pilots switched on IR cameras to get a better look,
does not mean the objects were actually invisible.
As per the other poster's question, I don't see anything about where to get
video. It should be good!
I just couldn't resist posting to alt.rock-n-roll.ufo - rock on!