Proof of UFOs?

[cityboi]

Mexican A.F. Pilots Film Of 'UFOs'

MEXICO CITY, May 12, 2004

Journalist Jaime Maussan, left and Enrique Kolbeck watch the video (Photo: AP)

"The armed forces don't perpetuate frauds."

journalist Jaime Maussan

(CBS/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.

The lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 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.

An exchange between the radar operator and the captain of the surveillance aircraft, as recorded on the tape in Spanish:

Radar operator: "There they go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, no, there are eight. There we are going to see them, they go to an unusual speed. One, two, three, four, five , six, seven, eight in the screen."

Captain: "Are they at the same altitude?"

Radar operator: "Affirmative"

"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 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.

[Neo]

I'm a believer that there is life out there...not sure what to make of "sightings" and things of that nature though. I'm optimistic that life exist elsewhere in the universe though and don't doubt the ability for another lifeform to watch over us without us noticing. I also figure the US Military has some very advanced craft in development so that may explain stuff like this.

[Spartan]

Yeah, I agree with Neo, the US Military and some of its development agencies like DARPA probably have some seriously advanced stuff in their black project list that we wont know about for a very very long time.

Did anyone see that footage of those UFOs in Iran a couple weeks ago? That makes this type of this more convincing to me.... The Iranian government said it was refrafted light from Venus. Yeah, sure.

[Brickell]

"The armed forces don't perpetuate frauds."

You got to love that line.

I don't believe that UFOology is sound science. Until I'm convinced otherwise I'll continue to not believe. I do believe there is advanced life out there somewhere and would not be all that suprised to see it pop up around our solar system, but I just don't think that it's happening now. At least, I don't see any satisfactory proof of it.