'UFO' lights over Mexico may be gas
By Associated Press



MEXICO CITY -- A series of brightly lit, rapidly moving objects filmed in the skies over Mexico could have been caused by a scientific phenomenon involving gases in the atmosphere, a scientist said Thursday.

Visible only with infrared equipment, the hauntingly fast-moving lights were captured by Mexican air force cameras March 5 but made public only this week, sparking rampant speculation they were flying saucers.

Julio Herrera, a nuclear science researcher at the National Autonomous University, said the bright blurs could have been caused by electrical flashes emitted spontaneously by the atmosphere.

"They are (a) very strange phenomenon and there is little information about them," Herrera said of the atmospheric flashes in a phone interview. "That's what's so interesting."

He said more data than is available on the videotape would be necessary to determine whether that hypothesis was correct, including precise information on atmospheric conditions at the time the lights appeared.

The Campeche coast on the Gulf of Mexico, where the objects were filmed, is Mexico's main oil- and gas-producing region. Oil platforms there release or burn off some of the gas they produce.

The objects were recorded as an air force plane flew at more than 11,000 feet over southern Campeche state, using a video camera equipped with an infrared lens.

Idaho UFO Researcher: Mexican UFOs "Definitely Alien Craft."

By Scott Logan
 
BOISE -  
An Idaho-based UFO researcher says spectacular videotape of purported flying saucers taken by the Mexican Air Force is the real deal.

 "It appears from all indications these could be mother ships," said Ike Bishop, Idaho state director for the Mutual UFO Network. "They are definitely alien craft."

Idaho 2 News spoke on the phone with Bishop, who was at the world famous Little Ale'inn in Rachel, NV near Area 51, the supersecret military base 100 miles north of Las Vegas where some believe aliens and humans are collaborating scientifically.

A videotape aired Monday on Mexican national television showing a series of brilliant objects flying at more than 11,480 feet over southern Campeche state.

The tape was filmed March 5 by air force pilots using a video camera equipped with an infrared lens.The objects appear to accelerate rapidly and change course suddenly.

At least one crew member testified in a videotaped interview that the objects encircled the military jet at a distance of at least two miles.

Bishop says Mexico has a long history of UFO sightings and he applauded the Mexican Air Force for making the videotape public this week.

"The Mexican government is not afraid to talk about UFOs," Bishop told Idaho 2 News. "People don't lose their jobs over the whole thing."

The pilots spotted the objects while conducting a routine drug-surveillance mission. Only three of the objects showed up on the plane's radar. Infrared equipment can only detect heat emanating from objects. It is unable to provide an image of the objects' exact forms.

After deciding it was no threat to national security, Mexican Defense Secretary Gen. Ricardo Vega Garcia gave the videotape to UFO specialist Jaime Maussan, who has spent 10 years studying unidentified flying objects.

Maussan claimed Tuesday the videotape was evidence that flying saucers exist. The video was especially significant since it was provided by the military, he said.

"This is historic news," Maussan said. "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."

But Vega denied Wednesday that the military had made any conclusions about where the lights came from or whether they were UFOs.

"This is Maussan's point of view, for that reason he was given (the video) so that he could draw his own conclusions," Vega told a Mexican radio station. "But that is his version."

Bishop agrees with Maussan, and says his own investigation indicates more and more stunning UFO sightings will come in the near future.

"From what people have been telling me, 2004 and 2005 will be the awakening years (for UFO sightings)," Bishop said. "In other words, fasten your seatbelts."

Or as one of the Mexican pilots said, "This is all so very strange."

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

Des Ovni au-dessus du Mexique ?

mercredi 12 mai 2004 - 12:33

Sur cette image extraite d'une video infrarouge prise d'un avion militaire le 25 mars au-dessus de la côte est du Mexique, on voit des objets brillants non identifiés. La bande a été fournie par le ministre de la Défense mexicain à un journaliste. On y voit au total onze objets de ce type. Ni l'aviation mexicaine ni personne d'autre n'a été capable de dire de quoi il s'agissait.
(Libération.fr)