UPDATE ON MEXICAN UFO INCIDENT
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TAKE UNPRECEDENTED ACTION
By Jon Downes
Phenomena / Source: Jaime Maussan
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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Following yesterday's news story about the sighting of eleven UFOs by a
Mexican Military aircraft, the Mexican Department of Defense -- under
Secretary of Defense General Clemente Vega Garcia, commander of all armed
forces in the country -­ have taken the unprecedented step of publicly
confirming the incident. The press conference took place at the Hotel
Sevilla Palace in Mexico city and international media representatives were
invited.

JAIME MAUSSAN'S PRESS BRIEFING DOCUMENT:

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
Merlín C26A Bimotor airplane was doing a routine flight to detect a
smuggling drug airplane during an ant-narcotics 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 Núñez.

The FLIR operator was Lt. Mario Adrián Vázquez 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 manouvres. Their duty is to detect and
identify drug dealers flights and then immediately report them to the
base where combat planes are scrambled to intercept those narcotics
smugglers. At approximately 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
possible 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 unexpected 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 couldn't 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 incident that was taking place giving detail of all the
information 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 situation.

THE INCIDENT TURNS MORE DRAMATIC

But the stressing moment that the C26A crew were passing through was
just the beginning 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 bizarre thing was that even though
there were eleven unknown objects close to them, still the crew couldn't
see them, no visual contact with the unknowns was possible 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 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 measuring 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 possible, 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 disappeared 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, measurements 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 collaboration 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 analysis by Maussan's research team as complement
of this investigation and as an external collaborating source trying to
establish a definition of the possible 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 unprecedented decision that will open a
new era of mutual collaboration among the Mexican ufologists and the
military forces, a collaboration based in respect and interest to find
the truth of the intense UFO activity we have been experiencing here in
Mexico since the beginning 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 commercial and military airplanes etc. for learning and
understanding what are we going to do and how are we going to confront
this reality.

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MEXICO AIR FORCE VIDEO CREATES UFO STIR
Reuters
May 11, 2004

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=5109891

MEXICO CITY - 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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