From: Scott Corrales <lornis1.nul>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:32:31 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:07:13 -0400
Subject: Mexican Scientists Dismiss UFOs As Meteor Fragments



Source: La Cronica De Hoy

http://www.cronica.com.mx/

Date: May 12, 2004

Scientists Dismiss Campeche UFOs as Possible Meteorite Fragments

Mexican scientists consdiered the possibility that the alleged
UFOs recorded by Mexican Air Force pilots over Campeche are not
alien spacecraft, stating that there is no scientific evidence
to substantiate such a visit.

In an interview with Cronica, researcher Jaime Maussan, who has
studied the UFO phenomenon for over a decade, stated that the
video broadcast by Televisa shows the presence of "intelligent
life that has been manifesting itself on Earth for a long time
and hails from other parts of the universe."

He stated that humankind's depredations on the planet's animal
and vegetable life, aside from missions to other planets (Mars)
has caused an increase in "sightings of these objects, because
we have surely violated some code and they wish to make their
presence known."

He said that the decision of military authorities to deliver the
video "with the evidence" is unprecedented in the country and
perhaps in the whole world, and places Mexico in the forefront
of such matters, "since it is time that goverments pay attention
to these manifestations, which should be reseached objectively."

In the video recorded on March 5 by Air Force pilots, 16
brilliant objects can be seen as captured by infrared cameras as
they soar over Campeche -- static, aligned with each other, then
making sudden high-speed turns.

While scientists engaged in reconnoitering missions to detect
drug-traffic, their radar suddenly picked up a contact: UFOs,
which according to the witnesses, followed them for several
minutes.

The pilot's conversations can be heard in the video:

"Put on your seatbelts"

"Don't scare me"

"I wouldn't know how to identify it...buy they must be
completely real," said Lt. Mario Adrian Vazquez, operator of the
infrared equipment, who insisted that tampering with said images
was impossible.

Jaime Maussan called upon Mexican scientists to research the UFO
phenomenon in order to render an opinion and "not dismiss videos
a priori that show the existence of intelligence of unknown
origin" and that "astronomers or other scientist quit their
prejudiced notions and cease deriding those who have studied the
phenomenon and know that there is intelligent life present [from
other worlds] as fools, madmen, dreamers or mystics."

However, Mexican astronomer Jose de la Herr=E1n provided his
scientific arguments regarding the impossibility that [the
lights] could be alien spacecraft, as has been speculated. He
claims that they could have been meteorite fragments.

He explained that when a meteor crashes into the Earth's
atmosphere, it shatters into many pieces  which appear as though
they were static and aligned with one another as they give off
an intense glow. "And of course, people who do not know such
phenomena occur, interpret them in many ways upon seeing them.
For example, they can say they were alien spaceships by virtue
of having seen them."

Rafael Navarro of the Plasma Chemistry and Planetary Study
Laboratory of the UNAM Institute of Nuclear Science, added that
these are undoubtedly unidentified spherical objects shown by
the Air Force, but under no circumstances do they show the visit
of alien spacecraft.

The space scientist told "Cronica" that it is almost certainly
"space junk" resulting from hundreds of satellites burning up
upon reentry into earth's atmosphere after finishing their
service cycle.

The Mexican scientist cautioned that UFO reports may increase,
since humanity is launching an increasing number of satellites
that will burn up as they are attracted by Earth's
gravity.Navarro regretted that these speculative news items
should exert such a hold on the public's imagination as opposed
to serious efforts conducted in Mexico and elsewhere in the
world to detect the presence of extraterrestrial life.

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Translation (c) 2004 Scott Corrales
Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU)
Special thanks to Christian Quintero - PlanetaUFO