[extropy-chat] Mexican UFOs--adding insolit to injury

Wed May 12 03:48:03 UTC 2004

At 08:17 PM 5/11/2004 -0700, Adrian wrote:

> > Really? Technology that makes drug courier jets
> > invisible to the naked eye...
>
>I've heard of something that could fit the bill...if
>viewed from below.  "Air Force Blue" paint.  Perfect
>chroma match for the open sky.

Erm:

(I have no idea what `insolit' means.)

Here's the long version (FWIW, which might be nothing more than your 
average weeping madonna statue):

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From: Santiago Yturria
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:49:11 -0500
Subject: Mexican Military Acknowledges UFOs In Mexico

Mexican Department of Defense acknowledge UFOs in Mexico

By Santiago Yturria

The UFO Phenomenon in Mexico has been recognized as a fact in an
historic and unprecedent decision taken by the mexican
Department of Defense under his Secretary of Defense General
Clemente Vega Garcia, commander of all armed forces in this
country.

The insolit meassure that will change history here in Mexico was
the result of a high level incident in wich a mexican Air Force
airplane, military pilots and personal were involved in a
situation with several UFOs while doing a routinary surveillance
antinarcotics operation to detect a drug smuggling flight.

The news was released last night, Sunday May 9, 2004 by Jaime
Maussan, researcher and tv journalist during the tv show Los
Grandes Misterios del Tercer Milenio (Great Misteries of the
Third Millenium) broadcast by mexican tv network Multimedios
Television in the city of Monterrey, N.L.

Jaime Maussan announced that on Tuesday May 11 there will be an
international press conference to present the case and the
investigation made by the Department fo Defense along with
Maussan's research team in an unprecedent colaboration. The
press conference will take place at the Hotel Sevilla Palace in
Mexico city at 11:00 AM were all the international media
representatives have been invited. Previously on Monday's night
an advance report will be broadcast on national television
newscast.

All the facts and materials of the investigation will be
presented at the conference including the official footages by
the Air Force as well as interviews with the pilots and personal
involved in the amazing incident.

THE FACTS:

On April 20, 2004 Jaime Maussan was contacted by a high officer
of the Department of Defense to have a private meeting and
discuss a subject of a high relevant matter. The next day
Maussan met General Clemente Vega Garcia, Secretary of Defense
and his major staff and was informed about an incident that took
place on March 5, 2004 on the aerial space of Ciudad del Carmen,
Campeche where an Air Force Merl=EDn C26A Bimotor airplane was
doing a routinary flight to detect a smuggling drug airplane
during an antinarcotics operation.

The Merlin C26A was equipped with a high tech advanced digital
equipment to register and record all the activities during the
operation. Powerful sensor detectors like a FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II
and a RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3 were being used by
qualified personal aboard the airplane and all the operation was
being recorded both in normal and infrared mode.

The airplane was under the command of Mayor Magdaleno Jasso
N=FA=F1ez. The FLIR operator was Lt. Mario Adri=E1n V=E1zquez and the
RADAR operator Lt. German Ramirez, all of them members of the
501 Aerial Squadron.

This airplane is programmed only for surveillance and detection
procedures, not for interception or combat maneuvres. Their duty
is to detect and identify drug dealers filghts and then
inmediately report them to the base where combat planes are
scrambled to intercept those narcotics smugglers.

At aproximately 17:00 PM the Merlin C26A detected an unknown
traffic at 10,500 feet over Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche airspace
and according to the protocol and suspecting a drug dealer
airplane Mayor Magdaleno Jasso made a maneuver to approach the
unidentified traffic at certain range to get a close look and
record the target with their equipment. At the same time Mayor
Jasso reported by radio to the base that a posible suspect was
detected requesting the interceptor planes to be in alert
condition.

The RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3 was detecting the unknown
traffic and the FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II was recording the object in
infrared. As the Merlin C26A tried to approach the unknown
traffic to make a visual identification it suddenly in a
surprising maneuver escaped flying away at tremendous speed. By
this time Mayor Jasso tried to persecute the target but it was
very fast. All this was being recorded by the FLAIR and also the
radio conversations with the base describing the inexpected
maneuver of the unknown. However the C26A still have not made
visual contact with the unknown object.

Just some moments passed when suddenly the unknown object
returned and began following the Merlin C26A in a surprising
situation. This was detected by the RADAR and the FLIR while the
personal aboard were trying to make visual contact of the
unidentified traffic now following them. In seconds the
equipment detected now not only one but two traffics following
them. The images in both RADAR and the FLIR were clear and
unmistakable. But both pilot and personal still could'nt have
visual contact with these two traffics following them adding a
great suspense to this disconcerting situation.

Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported to the base the insolit incident
that was taking place giving detail of all the informations
registered by the equipment while keep trying to make visual
contact of the unknowns. The FLIR kept recording in infrared
every movement made by the two unknown objects that seemed to be
keeping their distance from the C26A but still following it. The
personal aboard the Merlin C26A were confused and disconcerted
seeing the images on the FLIR and the RADAR asking themselves
what was going on with this insolit situation.

THE INCIDENT TURNS MORE DRAMATIC

But the stressing moment that the C26A crew were passing through
was just the beguinning of something more dramatic that will
turn their undesirable experience into a real nightmare.

Some minutes passed while the mexican Air Force Merlin C26A crew
continued making maneuvers to have a visual contact of the
unknowns because despite both RADAR and FLIR were showing
perfectly clear both unidentified objects for unexplained
reasons there was not a visual contact even that the objects by
this time were at close range.

It was during this round and round maneuvers to identify these
two objects that something amazing happened. In a matter of
seconds more unknown objects arrived to the scene and the
disconcert of the C26A crew was total.

The RADAR and the FLIR detected immediately the presence of nine
new objects of the same size and characteristics, unknown
objects that arrived to the scene surprisingly like coming from
nowhere. Now the situation has entered into a high level of
danger so Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported by radio to the base
this new situation requesting instructions.

But the most insolit thing was that even that there were eleven
unknown objects close to them still the crew could'nt see them,
no visual contact with the unknowns was posible for some reason
never experienced before by these high trained men. However the
high tech sophisticated equipment and sensors were not lying,
there were eleven targets outside them with unpredictable
intentions.

At the middle of a complete confusion and disconcert among the
C26A crew the unknown objects suddenly made a maneuver
surrounding the mexican Air Force airplane in a circle at close
range. The RADAR and FLIR presented an insolit image of an
eleven objects near by in a circle formation around the Merlin
C26A. The situation turned out of control.

Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported to the base that the C26A
situation was now in red alert, surrounded by eleven mysterious
round shaped objects camouflaged with a certain unknown advanced
technology that avoid any visual contact of them. However Mayor
Jasso kept the calm as well as the crew who were working fast
meassuring and recording every detail of this unique incident
conscientious of their duty as military and trained men.

Confronting this situation surrounded by unidentified objects in
an unpredictable ending Mayor Magdaleno Jasso took the decision
of turning out all the airplane lights and wait to see what
happened. Moments of high suspense lived by the crew while the
FLIR was recording the images of those bright objects even that
visual contact was not posible, moments of silence and
uncertainty.

The C26A crew kept calmed doing their duty, documenting every
moment of the strange incident while Mayor Jasso continued in
contact with the base. After some stressing minutes the eleven
objects dissapeared giving an end to the strange experience that
these members of the 501 Aerial Squadron just lived. The Merlin
C26A returned safe to the Air Force Base and Mayor Magdaleno
Jasso prepared a complete report of the incident along with the
C26A crew.

The Secretary of the Defense took notice of Mayor Jasso's report
and began a full investigation studying and evaluating every
element of the case. Statements of the crew, images, lectures,
meassurements of all the equipment as well as a complete
evaluation of the meteorological data . The incident was taken
very seriously by the Department of Defense Staff and after
several weeks of investigation they decided under the command of
General Clemente Vega Garcia to contact researcher and tv
journalist Jaime Maussan for a special colaboration in this
investigation as an experienced researcher in these matters.

On April 22, 2004 General Clemente Vega, Secretary of Defense
gave Jaime Maussan a copy of all the tapes and data collected by
the Merlin C26A during the incident for study, evaluation and
analisis by Maussan's research team as complement of this
investigation and as an external colaborating source trying to
establish a definition of the posible motives and consequences
of the March 5, 2004 incident.

General Vega as well as his staff were very open to discuss the
subject and showed their legitimate interest in conducting this
investigation in order to establish the truth of what happened.
General Vega authorized the Merlin C26A crew to give Jaime
Maussan the interviews needed without any censorship, giving all
the facilities to present this case to the mexican people, an
historic and unprecedent decision that will open a new era of
mutual colaboration among the mexican ufologists and the
military forces, a colaboration based in respect and interest to
find the truth of the intense UFO activity we have been
experiencing here in Mexico since the beguinning of the Amazing
Mexican UFO Wave back in July 11, 1991.

This new era of relationship among the mexican UFO witnesses,
skywatchers, ufologists and our military forces will try to
establish and give form to a new legislation in our law system
focused to be prepared for any incident involving these
unidentified flying objects, our people, our comercial and
military airplanes etc. for learning and understanding what are
we going to do and how are we going to confront this reality.

Santiago Yturria
Mexico

TECHNICAL DATA

DATE: March 5, 2004
TIME: 17:00 PM to 17:30 pm
EVENT: On Comision
LOCATION: Aerial Space Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche Mexico at
    10,500 Fts.
COORDINATES: LAT N 18=B0 26.60=B4 : LON W 90=B0 45.69=B4
SENSOR EQUIPMENT: FLIR STAR ZAFIRO II
     RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3
DETECTION RATIO: 50 miles
FLIR RANGE: - 40=B0C till more than 1,500=B0C
CAMERA LENS: GERMANIO
AIRPLANE: Merlin C26A Bimotor

OFFICERS
Navigation Captain: Magdaleno Jasso Nu=F1ez
FLIR Operator:      Lt. Mario Adrian Vasquez
RADAR Operator:     Lt. German Ramirez
Members of the 501 Aerial Squadron

GENERAL CONDITIONS:

The located zone was in optimal meteorological conditions, winds
no bigger than 35 kms./hour, relative humidity of 72% and a
temperature average of 34=B0 C. At 10,500 Fts. temperature average
-27=B0 C and a visibility average of 96%.

The region doesn't register volcanic activity nor teutonics
movements. There was not detection of electric current storage
and distribution of importance.

On the basis of the previous thing there were not found sources
of electric magnetic phenomenons by electric centrals or sismic
movements. There were not found posibilities of any Ball of Fire
effect caused by volcanic activity.

There were not registries of solar storms in that moments or
relevant solar explosions. Therefore the posibilities of
ionization luminic effects like St. Elmo Fire or electric storms
were discarded.

Study and Analisis elaborated by Rodolfo Garrido Cotham
according to the Merlin C26A digital equipment data.