Mexican Air Force pilots film UFOs

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying 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.

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You'd think they'd at least have a screen grab from the video...

[bcoffey]

You'd think they'd at least have a screen grab from the video...

The aliens wouldn't allow it ...

Wouldn't even allow excerpting...

Must be part of the Gannett News Service

[martin_fierro]

Wonder how Mexico treats THEIR illegal aliens.

[nuconvert]

People in Iran have been reporting seeing UFO's for weeks.

[RightWhale]

Still waiting for hard evidence. That means a UFO sitting there, some bodies, some wreakage, something you could encase in plastic and set on the mantlepiece. Art Bell is waiting, too.

[keithtoo]

Wait a minute. Mexico has an air force?

[cavtrooper21]

SSShhhhh!!!!
Those are surveillance drones!!

[Joe Hadenuf]

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Mexico Air Force video creates UFO stir
The Mexican Air Force has released footage of what a UFO expert said were 11 unidentified flying objects (UFOs) picked up by an infrared camera as they whizzed around a surveillance plane.

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 Defence Ministry gave him permission to publicise.

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 Mr Maussan 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 Major 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.

[AzSteven]

Back in the 1970s, Mexico still had some P-51s and P-47s in their Air Force. Don't know if they still have them, or have upgraded to something more modern (F-86s maybe or MiG-15s maybe?).

Actually, I really love the P-51, and even back then on the occasional trip into Mexico it was cool to see them in operation.

[RightWhale]

They had mass, they had energy

Right. If they could entice one to land maybe we could get some solid data. Not to say it wouldn't be amazing, because it would be, but we withhold our amazement for the time being.

[FreedomCalls]

You'd think they'd at least have a screen grab from the video...

Here's one:

[boxsmith13]

they have an air force?

[rolling_stone]

Mexico has no worries, they won't allow aliens to work and live in their country without visas, the aliens will just have to go north to the USA with its open borders....

[ServesURight]

Wait a minute. Mexico has an air force?

LOL! Probably consists of flying Chevy Impala lowriders.

[PokeyJoe]

yeah, a couple of crop dusters and a 1946 Champ.

[Dog Gone]

Yeah, and Mexicans have also been known to see the Virgin Mary's image on a tortilla.

[ErnBatavia]

Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying objects

Oh, poppycock! What they saw was their own windshield bangles reflecting back at them...

[glock rocks]

bonk.

[JennysCool]

Badges? We don't need no steenkin' badges!

[Leroy S. Mort]

I believe the Mexican Airforce flies less than 10 F-5E's plus a larger number of T-33's and Pilatus PC-7's that have a joint role as trainers and COIN (and assorted transports, copters. etc.)