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IBelieveInAliens
can you link to this confession?
RUInsane
reply to post by Ollie769
The Jerusalem videos were shown to be a hoax. The people behind it also confessed.edit on 27-12-2013 by RUInsane because: (no reason given)
Please point out where they said that. According to what I've read, none of the pilots saw the targets themselves.
jhn7537
Hey man... I still stand behind this one too. I posted this earlier because I've never believed the oil rig theory. The pilots stated that the objects were accelerating/deaccelerating around them and that they weren't just stable points...
MissBeck
Very interesting that they seemed attracted to the lightening storms.
MEXICO CITY (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.
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MissBeck
Very interesting that they seemed attracted to the lightening storms.
That second part was the one I posted. I prefer a separate video because I don't think the first part shows the same thing as the second.
Please let me know when you find it as I'm after the truth here. I'll post my source:
jhn7537
I'm searching for the article that discusses just that.
All of these observations are consistent with system generated images. It's important to note that the pilots never saw these objects visually, only through the infrared imaging system.
So they may have changed their initial story, that they didn't actually see anything during the flight.
Accounts of what actually happened varied wildly. Skeptic publisher Michael Shermer appeared on CNN three times the week the story broke. “Initial reports indicated that the UFOs were only discovered upon later review of the footage after the flight,” Shermer said. “Subsequent reports stated that the pilots saw the UFOs during the flight, but nothing much was made of it until the infrared footage was later reviewed. Still later reports claimed that the pilots not only saw the UFOs during the flight, but that they chased them, were surrounded by them, but were unable continue the chase. It was like a fisherman’s tale, growing with each retelling.”
Arbitrageur
reply to post by jhn7537
My first guess would be the involvement of Maussan and his affiliates.edit on 28-12-2013 by Arbitrageur because: clarification
Maybe they changed their stories due to pressure from the US?
Phage
reply to post by jhn7537
Maybe they changed their stories due to pressure from the US?
The US pressured them to change their story from not seeing anything at the time to seeing the objects flying around the aircraft? Any idea why the "US" would pressure them into doing that?
If you are able to provide convincing statements that might influence others to your point of view, however the quote I provided about the statements changing casts doubt on different versions of the stories being told, doesn't it? In other words, inconsistent statements and stories are not very compelling, are they?
jhn7537
I just don't believe the oil rig theory, especially with some of the statements I've read with my research over time.
"National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena"
It is the opinion of NARCAP, based upon the evidence available, that the most likely source of this alleged
UAP observation was the oil flares from the Cantrell oil fields in the Gulf of Campeche.
There is no relationship. For you to expect there is one indicates you are likely a victim of Yturria's propaganda.
Yturria is misleading people and himself because he knows that the lights and radar contacts are not related in any way as this webpage and many other sources have shown.
Even UFO proponent Dr. Bruce Maccabee seems to have become more receptive to the oil well fire hypothesis:
...he may be correct in identifying the lights as oil field fires. Notice I said "may". In my opinion it is premature to state a conclusion. An important experiment has not yet been done to test the oil fire hypothesis. (Maccabee)
His experiment has to do with the Mexican military reproducing the flight. I doubt the Mexican military is going to do this because it has potential embarrassment written all over it. Maybe Maussan can shell out some cash to reproduce the flight. I would not hold my breath based on his track record.