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05/11/04 - Associated Press
MEXICO
CITY - 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 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
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.
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