Mexican UFOs Debunked

Originally posted by mauskov
The recent sightings of UFOs in Mexico may have a far more plausible explanation than little green men: nuclear science researcher, Julio Herrera, claims that the infra-red footage released shows nothing more than ball lightning.

It's such bad debunking that it almost earned a place in the HOAX forum; for fraudulent debunking.

In fact; there should be a Fraudulent Debunking forum, where all the crappy debunking goes. Moderators?

First of all, the article generalizes over "the recent sightings of UFOs in Mexico", then specifically aims at the March 5, 2004 incident where Mexican Air Force pilots identify a number of Unidentified Flying Objects on infra-red cameras.

It gives the reader the impression that ALL of Mexico's UFO incidents during the last decades can be summoned up in one phenomenon; ball lighting.

This is of course insane and ridiculous to anyone that knows the subject.

Could ball lighting for instance explain the July 11, 1991 'solar eclipse' sighting, where hundreds of people observed a bright, metallic object hover over Mexico City for almost 30 minutes, captured by at least a dozen different video cameras?

Could ball lightning explain the April 11, 2005 sightings and filming of hundreds of spheres travelling in clusters over they sky of Mexico City?

Or any of the thousands of discs, triangles and other oddly shaped craft observed, photographed and filmed during the last years?

Of course not.

And as an explanation for the Mexican Air Force video it falls flat on the ground, since ball lightning does not fly in formation over long periods of time.

Seriously, a scientist who suggest that extra-terrestial visitation is behind the UFO phenomenon risks his credibility and career in the face of the scientific establishment, but a 'scientist' who puts forward a totally absurd explanation with little or no scientific foundation gets away with it?

a reply to: letxa2000

It's almost 12 years ago and the answer is here since same year: Lights are not UFO's

Best regards and I hope you like it.

Capt. Alejandro Franz

There's a beautiful irony in the sightings being explained as ball lightning, the scientists who jump on ball lightning today were the self same scientists who dismissed ball lightning only a few decades ago as having, "Only anecdotal evidence and zero concrete proof that it actually exists".