Forward
Looking Infrared (FLIR) Images
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MEXICO
CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Air Force has released footage
of what a UFO expert said were 11 invisible unidentified
flying objects picked up by an infrared camera as they
whizzed around a surveillance plane.
A
long-time believer in flying saucers, journalist Jaime
Maussan told a news conference on Tuesday the objects
were real and seemed "intelligent" after they
at one point changed direction and surrounded the plane
chasing them.
"They
were invisible to the eye but they were there, there is
no doubt about it. They had mass, they had energy and
they were moving about," he said, after showing a
15-minute video he said the Defense Ministry gave him
permission to publicize.
The
ministry confirmed to Reuters it had provided the video,
filmed by the Air Force on March 5 over the eastern coastal
state of Campeche.
"We
are not alone! This is so weird," one of the pilots
can be heard yelling, after the plane's crew switched
on an infrared camera to track the objects, first picked
up by radar.
The
film, recorded by a plane looking for drugs trafficking
near the Gulf of Mexico, shows 11 objects as blobs of
light that hover in formation or dart about, sometimes
disappearing into cloud.
Mexico's
most popular nightly news broadcast showed the video on
Monday night.
Interviewed
by Mausson on another section of the video, the pilots
said they grew nervous when the objects, still invisible,
turned back during a chase and surrounded the plane.
"There
was a moment when ... the screens showed they were behind
us, to the left and in front of us. It was at that point
that I felt a bit tense," said Maj. Magdaleno Castanon.
Mexico
has a long history of fanciful UFO sightings, most of
which are dismissed by scientists as space debris, missiles,
weather balloons, natural weather phenomena or hoaxes.
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