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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (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 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.

"The power to Destroy the planet, is insignifigant to the power of the Air Force----Mudd Vader

wonderful...

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."

Kipling-

saw this video tonight. Classic asteroid/large meteor breakup,MAY also have been "space junk" nothing else.

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

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Edited by - boomer on May 11 2004 9:38 PM

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

11 of them that followed/fled the aircraft and fooled two pilots?

Hmmm.

Now i wanna see the video.

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."

Kipling-

Nope, Skymasters! <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

"Live every day like it's the last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right!" Ray Charles

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will plow for those who do not.\"
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If I'm on the highway in my mighty Ford Taurus (stop laughing lol ) and 11 Corvettes are comming up at 100kts plus, I might believe they were following me and then "fled" once thay passed me. Way more importantly Aurora is back! 2 subsonic contrail sightings(with escorts) in the last few months! Kansas and I believe Utah Can Sparticus be accounted for on those dates? lol

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
<img src="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/atengun2X.GIF" border=0>

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

LOL, the mighty Sparticus does get around.

Who can say for sure...

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."

Kipling-

A funny thing happened to Sparticus on the way to the forum.........

"Insert trite message here"

the escort contrails and lack of shock boom say a lot. Apparently an RBCC engine has to be throttled WAAAAYY back to stay subsonic thus the "doughnuts-on-a-rope" intermittant contrail. Also it is now confirmed(?) that Aurora is a twin engine, the Utah spotter says he clearly saw 2 sets of each "doughnut" before he could get his cam, by the time he got back they were starting to merge.

Spartacus was most likely on an unauthorised mead run thus the "escort" (probly with a lil red light on the glareshield and an MP band on thier arms <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle> )

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us". George Orwell

Fighting For Justice With Brains Of Steel !
<img src="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/atengun2X.GIF" border=0>

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.