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Mexico City — Mexican air force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state, a Defence Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

A videotape made widely available to the news media 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 March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 3,500 metres 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,” said radar operator Lieutenant German Marin in a taped interview made public Tuesday.

“A little afraid because we were facing something that had never happened before.”

“I couldn't say what it was ... but I think they're completely real,” added Lt. Mario Adrian Vazquez, the infrared equipment operator.

Lt. Vazquez insisted there was no way to alter the recorded images.

The plane's captain, Major 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 Defence Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday 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 last 10 years to studying UFOs.

“This is historic news,” Mr. 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.”

Mr. Maussan said Secretary of Defence Gen. Ricardo Vega Garcia gave him the video April 22.

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Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
 
This has to be a joke...

Everyone knows Mexico doesn't have an Air Force.
 

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Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
 
And Annie and her friend aren't even there yet!
 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
ak,

If yer on, I tried to clarify my confusion/confused question re: one of your posts.

fallow
 

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Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
 
I actually thought this was about Mexican Martinis.
 

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Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
 
I believe you mean the Martinez.
 

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Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
 
This isn't the first run in between the Mexican Air Force and UFOs. It's also not the first encounter that has been video taped...
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
Huh -- it's even on CNN as well, for those of you who are skeptical. (Since I wasn't familiar with the site listed on the first post, I wasn't sure...)

...not that CNN isn't fallible.

Farmgirl
 

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Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
 
Well, I guess all I know is that at Trudy's they serve something called a Mexican Martini, which is like a super potent margarita, and it's good.
 

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Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
 
It was also just on Fox News and they interviewed a guy from the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee. So its now becoming widely covered. Weird.
 

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Posted by thrak (Member # 5499) on :
 
Has anyone read The Mothman Prophecies?
 

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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
 
Looks like Immigration has a whole new worry when it comes to Illegal Aliens Sneaking in from Mexico.
 

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