1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Update from Mexico City. Video tape continues to surface from the largest UFO flap in history. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Since 1991, there have been more than 1,000 UFO sightings over Mexico City. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 At first, attempts to document the phenomena were amateurish and inconsistent. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:27,000 But as the flap has continued, a more thorough and coordinated effort to document the sightings is underway. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000 It's a grassroots movement that's gaining momentum and credibility. 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 With UFO sightings like this one occurring nearly every week, 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:42,000 citizen groups are forming all over Mexico with support and training provided by several colleges and universities. 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 They are learning how to recognize and document genuine UFOs. 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:54,000 There are also some diamond shaped forms, red in color, that are suspended over the mountain. 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,000 And all of a sudden they become long and then all of a sudden diamond is shaped again. 11 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Then they disappear. 12 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 We went to my sister-in-law's home. 13 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000 All of a sudden, I thought I was looking at a cloud and I saw a yellow light. 14 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 It got closer to us. 15 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Among the experts participating in these field seminars is Dmitriy Oferia, 16 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,000 who maintains Mexico's largest library of UFO footage. 17 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 A former safari leader, he's now after a different kind of big game. 18 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:39,000 My experience as an observer starts back in a time when I dedicated myself to being in the field hunting animals. 19 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:47,000 But now what I am trying to capture on camera and on video are UFOs. 20 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Oferia has made a thorough study of conventional aircraft and their flight patterns, 21 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 so he can distinguish them at a glance from true UFOs. 22 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 You need to see them, to look for them and know what to look for. 23 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,000 The shine, the intensity of the shine and the movement that these machines have. 24 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:14,000 As more amateur ufologists are trained in his technique, an impressive videotape database has been developed. 25 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 He would teach me how to look at the sky. 26 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 He would show me his videos that he had already recorded. 27 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:26,000 He would tell me how I had to sharpen my vision to be able to distinguish those objects since they are very small. 28 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:37,000 First record them on video and study them to be able to compare later a real one from a false one. 29 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I spent about 7 months looking at the sky and wasn't able to record anything. 30 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Then it took me about 2 more months before I was able to obtain the first video. 31 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 The number of UFO videos shot in Mexico is overwhelming. 32 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 When the computer science department at El Grupo Sogo, a Mexican state university, 33 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,000 was asked to analyze the footage, Professor Victor Casada was hesitant. 34 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 I didn't buy into the phenomenon. 35 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I thought that many of the videos were falsifications utilizing a methodology known in computer lingo as multimedia. 36 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,000 But when Professor Casada, his colleagues and students, began looking at the UFO footage, 37 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 a startling pattern was instantly visible. 38 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Computer enhancements of the supposed UFOs could not be matched to enhancements of any conventional aircraft. 39 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 At that point we weren't as skeptical. 40 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 We said let's take advantage of what we know and let's try to look for the truth on our own. 41 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And then the university backed us up. 42 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Professors approached the university with an unusual proposal. 43 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 They wanted to conduct formal classes in the study of the Mexican UFO phenomenon. 44 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Surprisingly, permission was granted and the classes filled quickly. 45 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 My interest in all of this changed to understand a little more about the truth. 46 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:11,000 In reality there is a lot of photographic material and video material that really makes you think that there is something out there. 47 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I decided to do field research with a group of students and professors 48 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 and we started to see phenomena in the heavens that were inexplicable. 49 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 I noticed that there were strange things. 50 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:33,000 We saw lights, very rare lights, and lights that could not be categorized as a star 51 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 or categorized as an airplane. 52 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,000 For the students and faculty at El Grupo Sol, what started out as a purely technical exercise 53 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 has become a topic for not only scientists, but also philosophers. 54 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:57,000 It would be of great interest to me to be able to have in my hand the most advanced technology, 55 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000 the most advanced resources, to be able to have the most information. 56 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I believe in the effort that the universities make, that the individuals make, that the governments make 57 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 in order to find the truth to this phenomenon. 58 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:19,000 If it is the case that it really exists, we should be able to establish contact with it. 59 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,000 The good thing would be that this would have a positive effect for mankind.