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Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 10:41 am**

here's a pic

CNN wrote: Mexican Air Force pilots film unidentified objects
Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Posted: 8:10 AM EDT (1210 GMT)

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified objects in the skies over southern Campeche state, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

A videotape made widely available to the news media on Tuesday shows the bright objects, some sharp points of light and others like large headlights, moving rapidly in what appears to be a late-evening sky.

The lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 3,500 meters (11,480 feet), and allegedly surrounded the Air Force jet as it conducted routine anti-drug trafficking vigilance in Campeche. Only three of the objects showed up on the plane's radar.

"Was I afraid? Yes. A little afraid because we were facing something that had never happened before," said radar operator Lt. German Marin in a taped interview made public Tuesday.

"I couldn't say what it was ... but I think they're completely real," added Lt. Mario Adrian Vazquez, the infrared equipment operator. Vazquez insisted that there was no way to alter the recorded images.

The plane's captain, Maj. Magdaleno Castanon, said the military jets chased the lights "and I believe they could feel we were pursuing them."

When the jets stopped following the objects, they disappeared, he said.

A Mexican Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the videotape was filmed by members of the Mexican Air Force. The spokesman declined to comment further and spoke on customary condition of anonymity.

The video was first aired on national television Monday night then again at a news conference Tuesday by Jaime Maussan, a Mexican investigator who has dedicated the past 10 years to studying UFOs.

"This is historic news," Maussan told reporters. "Hundreds of videos (of UFOs) exist, but none had the backing of the armed forces of any country. ... The armed forces don't perpetuate frauds."

Maussan said Secretary of Defense Gen. Ricardo Vega Garcia gave him the video on April 22.

Wow?! I thought it was interesting that this was the first time a gov't has verified such a site. Hmmm?!

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 11:41 am**

I saw this on the morning news this morning.
Eerie, huh?

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 12:15 pm**

I wonder what its all about?

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 1:42 pm**

I doubt it was a "flying saucer". More likely, it was U.S. intelligence or another country's govt agency conducting some sort of nonpublicized procedure. I'm always the skeptic.
...Jennifer...

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 5:10 pm**

yeh its interesting. i suppose if it was the US spying on mexico or smthg they wouldn't admit to it. Its just funny that a gov't admitted to seeing it...lol i still can't get past it!

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 5:15 pm**

Not sure what to think of this, but I think they definately saw something and this video is not fake. I've always wondered if our gov't knows things that they don't share with the public.

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 7:11 pm**

Dear Lord - it's the MOTHER ship!

I'm comin' home, 'Lizabeth! :lol:

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 7:17 pm**

Hope no one takes offense to this...

It's the Mexican Air Force.. not the US Air Force... In my mind that says a LOT.

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2004 7:15 am**

mrschad wrote:I doubt it was a "flying saucer". More likely, it was U.S. intelligence or another country's govt agency conducting some sort of nonpublicized procedure. I'm always the skeptic.
...Jennifer...

Ya know....how much do we really KNOW about that *Super Secret Base* in Nevada, what's it called, Area 51? There's some SPOOKY *stuff* going on up there. Could the US Military be working on a *secret* project wasting BILLIONS of US tax payers dollars? "Naaaa, THEY wouldn't DO THAT!"

Dennis

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2004 9:55 am**

I didn't see the video, but that picture is very unconvincing. That double pattern looks like it could be the result of some sort of reflection, refraction, interference, or malfunction of the equipment. Maybe it was drops of tequila on the scope.

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2004 7:21 pm**

It looked like the plane was trying to aquire a target to me. I don't think a reflection would cause the plane to lock on it like a target.

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2004 7:33 pm**

Funny thing is we will never hear the final take on this... it will all be inconclusive and filed away like all the other UFO sightings...right in front of our faces..geesh we can spot a swirl in the sky from sattelite but golly gee nobody can figure this out... :wink:

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2004 8:36 pm**

Its swamp gas!

Posted: **Fri May 14, 2004 11:06 pm**

I've seen more exciting photos before..in fact, seen more exciting UFO's myself. Still waiting for the return of the famous March 13, 1997, "lights over Phoenix" that are as yet not well explained.

Sure would put a new perspective on the war in Iraq if a full fledged UFO decided to park on the planet, look out the window, and decide we're not worth the trouble.