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Mexican Air Force pilots film unidentified objects
AP via CNN ^
| 051204
| AP
Posted on 05/12/2004 8:53:54 AM PDT by Archangelsk
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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; hmmmm; immigrantlist; ufo; wow
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Wow!
To: Archangelsk
Looks like the drug traffickers have upgraded their UAVs.
To: Archangelsk
ET is a pot-head?
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:57:37 AM PDT
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Archangelsk
Frijole fueld gas fires. ;-)
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:57:54 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(To increase the power of the State over the individual is a crime against Humanity.)
To: Archangelsk
It's our new hypersonic stealth fighter-bombers.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
It's our new hypersonic stealth fighter-bombers.Not very stealthy if the daring Mexican Air Force chased/got fotos.!!!!!
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:59:34 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: Archangelsk
Windshield bangles reflecting back at 'em...
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:00:04 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Because Democrats are liars, they assume Republicans are too...)
To: Reelect President Dubya
Who knows? Those little green men from Roswell might just have made a wrong turn at Arizona and gotten lost on the way to N.M.
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:00:04 AM PDT
by
The Scourge of Yazid
(Dawn of the Dead, the sequel: Walter Mondale returns!)
To: Archangelsk
Ordinarily I would immediately think they were US military but this occurred in Southern Mexico.
To: ItsonlikeDonkeyKong
...those little green men from Roswell might have made a wrong turn...
They can scoop up some Mexicans and take them back to their home planet.
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:01:29 AM PDT
by
AngieGOP
To: Archangelsk
Paging Art Bell. . .
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:03:34 AM PDT
by
jtminton
(Ask me about my turn paper. It's about diaramas.)
To: Archangelsk
Mexican swamp gas ...
12
posted on
05/12/2004 9:04:13 AM PDT
by
JmyBryan
To: Archangelsk
When I heard this the first time my reaction was...Mexico has an air force?
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:04:59 AM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Archangelsk
I saw one last night!
I couldn't indentify it
It was flying
It was an object
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:05:03 AM PDT
by
Valin
(Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
To: Valin
They can't blame this one on the US military!
15
posted on
05/12/2004 9:06:10 AM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: CzarNicky
When I heard this the first time my reaction was...Mexico has an air force?That was my first reaction too!
Then I thought, with cucumber, tomato and bean season coming, aerial spraying is probably faster and cheaper than the old method.
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:09:08 AM PDT
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: sam_paine
LOL!!
Are they flying F4's?
To: Archangelsk
Probably just the last, dying sparks of common sense flying out of the United States.
Well, it is a political board, isn't it?
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:15:07 AM PDT
by
anonymous_user
(Telling the truth means you never have to change your story.)
To: sam_paine
Not very stealthy if the daring Mexican Air Force chased/got fotos.!!!!! Probably some idiot turned off the cloaking device.
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:16:01 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!)
To: <1/1,000,000th%
No, they are flying Spads and Curtiss Pushers.
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posted on
05/12/2004 9:20:11 AM PDT
by
gesully
(gesully)
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