Information gleaned from the Virtual Updates boards:

This is an old footage released by researcher Paola Harris in the US at the MUFON Symposium in 2005 and also at the IUFOC in Laughlin. Paola lives in Italy and is a prominent researcher and journalist.

The YouTube and Google copies were taken from Paola's lecture at MUFON 2005 that is for sale on DVD. According to Paola, a seventh generation copy was given to her in Italy by an anonimous source under mysterious circumstances.

There are still many obscure issues surrounding this footage and the case remains unclear. Paola Harris asked me to forward her response to this controversy.

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From Paola Harris:

Watch "Amazing UFO Video Shot By Italian Air Force" on Google Video:

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This old film footage I have been showing for 3 years and it was given to us, Italian Researchers... not by the Air force. It is our technology. I had a cassette examined in Hollywood by my friends Rob and Rebecca Gordon who had the connections and money to do it. It was a 7th generation - copied 7 times - cassette. It was given to us with no explantion. It is a real object in the film. It has been shown in my MUFON and Laughlin Presentations and someone put it on You-TUBE and Google!

This all takes place in the Veneto region of Italy at a place called Ponte di Giulio, near Aviano NATO Base. It is a dry river bed where the military does maneuvers and the photographer was on a tripod waiting for the object to come out of the woods. I doubt aliens appeared there!

Paola Harris

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The Ekip does not require an airfield. It can land on ground and water surfaces. Takeoffs and landings are performed at steep trajectories, which decrease the level of noise affecting the surrounding area. Citizens of Patuxent River, Maryland, do not be alarmed. When you see a flying saucer overhead sometime in 2007, it will not be a sign of alien attack.

Instead, the strange craft in the skies will mean that the Russians are finally here -- with a little help from the U.S. Navy.

For more than two decades, engineers at a former Soviet aerospace plant have been toiling on a drone aircraft that looks a whole lot like a prop from Plan 9 From Outer Space. But financial woes have frozen progress on the pita-bread-shaped, stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship, dubbed the Ekip (short for ecology and progress).

Momentum on the project may pick up again soon, however. After an introduction from an American congressman, the Ekip's designers at the Saratov Aviation Plant have a new partner: the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, which has agreed to join in the development of the unorthodox drone over the next several years. Test flights are tentatively scheduled for 2007 at Webster Field, near Patuxent River.

The initial prototype will be only 500 pounds -- just a speck compared with the 12-ton craft that Saratov claims to have successfully test flown in the early 1990s.

"But if we can make it work, it'll allow for new, radical concepts in aircraft design," said Dr. John Fischer, NAVAIR's director of research and engineering sciences.

Odd-shaped objects are often difficult to push through the air, because the airflow around them gets so disjointed. And the Ekip certainly qualifies as odd.

But Fischer claims that the Ekip's designers have figured out a way to create a vacuum around the drone's surface, which keeps the air flowing around it.

In that way, Saratov's engineers appear to be taking a page from the playbook of the Romanian aeronautics pioneer Henri Coanda. He's best known as the father of the jet engine. In the 1930s, however, he observed that the flow of air will follow a curved surface, rather than just continue in a straight line. This "Coanda Effect" led engineers to increase the lift -- the vertical motion -- of most aircraft, which are slightly curved.

But it's also inspired more than a few engineers to try to build a completely curved plane -- an honest-to-God flying saucer. In the 1940s, the Navy developed the Flying Flapjack -- a propeller-powered, Frisbee-looking fighter plane that could take off and land like a helicopter.

The Flapjack was tested near Area 51, the clandestine military base that's been an obsession of X-Filers for decades.

"It's what originated many people's belief in flying saucers," said Phil Scott, author of The Wrong Stuff: Attempts at Flight Before (and After) the Wright Brothers. "Anyone on a lot of drugs would think it was a flying saucer."

The Flapjack flew well, Scott added. But by the time it was completed, the military had moved on to jet planes.

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http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/12/61681#

I'm fascinated by the sky, always looking up to see something, what it is I'm looking for I can't say, just something different, so it does my heart good to know that so many others are also enthralled by the skies.

When the French recently put their previously classified UFO reports on the Internet so many people responded that the site crashed in just a few hours.

The former Governor of Arizona has finally admitted that he did see the Phoenix Lights and the retired Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Hellyer, has suggested that it is time to "lift the veil of secrecy" surrounding the UFO phenomenon.

And with the help of Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project government officials are stepping forward and seeking answers.

Unfortunately, as a government worker the pressure is intense to stay silent and ask no questions, being labeled a UFO "nut" could certainly lead to early retirement.

I spoke with a gentleman recently who wanted to report a strange sighting he experienced twenty years ago, but due to his position as a government employee with a top-secret clearance he requested that his name and location be withheld.

The year was 1987 on a clear night at an unnamed nuclear facility.

Under a dozen of security personnel were taking part in a nighttime training mission next to an operational reactor.

The portion of training they were undergoing was individualized and my source had completed his turn and was waiting for the rest of the team before moving on to the next task.

As an amateur astronomer he stepped away from the lights of the reactor to enjoy the clarity of the sky and after his eyes adjusted, he began looking for constellations.

That's when he saw them, two diamond shaped craft, no larger than the smallest Lear jets, flying in flight formation, pass silently over his head.

Well trained, he immediately glanced at his watch and saw the time to be 3:18 am.

The craft moved slower than 200 knots and seemed to emit a pink light from within.

This gentleman spent a lot of time describing the craft, stressing that no metal could be seen and that the glow was internal.

As the craft passed over the reactor he began calling to his team, but since they had been working under the lights their night vision was compromised and by the time their eyes adjusted, the craft were gone.

And then the taunts about little green men began.

When his shift was over, he considered reporting what he seen, but since the craft did not violate the facilities fly over mandates, he chose not to make himself a target of further ridicule.

For several weeks following his sighting he woke at 3:18 am in a cold sweat with his heart pounding.

Suddenly alert he would search his home for what had awakened him and finding nothing each time, he would struggle to go back to sleep.

Eventually the nighttime awakenings subsided.

As time passed, several others stepped forward to quietly mention to him that they had also seen something over the facility, but had chosen not to report it for fear of ridicule.

And a couple years later a local law enforcement officer told him that he had also seen the pink, glowing craft on two separate occasions.

I was compelled by this gentleman's experience because I felt what he was describing was organic, almost like a skin covering an energy source and most of the photos and sightings available speak of metallic craft.

My mind twists around the idea that many of the craft we see may just be government sponsored test vehicles, just because we haven't seen them before, doesn't mean the government isn't making them.

I suspect the secret technologies our government possesses are far more advanced than we know, and it's not likely that they will tell us, because to tell us, is to tell the world.

But then there are those sightings that defy explanation.

And nothing sends me into metaphysical theory like UFOs; the otherworldly quality awakens so many questions in my mind. I recognize that art, literature and even the Bible have referenced these lights in the sky, so perhaps they have always been a quality of the Earth's environment.

But then I get lost in what it all means. I know many believe that discovering alien life would solve many issues here on Earth, from global warming to new sources of energy.

I know others are expecting a new age, a time of great enlightenment due to making contact with our galactic siblings and guides, when we will literally shift into a new dimension.

Some Christians believe that UFOs are signs a malevolent entity, demons or just a force to push them from their path.

And many believe we are living in the End Times and The Rapture could come at any moment, when millions of believers will ascend into heaven.

And there are those that believe that the winding down of the Mayan calendar is at hand and the end of time, as we know it, is 2012.

I guess what intrigues me the most in how all these ideas seem to share common threads and predict great changes.

I am also intrigued with how so many people are expressing the feeling of "waking up", the subtle knowledge that "something" is about to happen and how government officials are beginning to speak out on the subject of UFOs.

I don't know what it all means, but I believe that all things are connected, that the reality we know is like a great tapestry and we must follow the threads where they lead us to understand the bigger picture. For myself, I don't feel these sightings bode well for the human race and I have discovered many others share that opinion, some say that all alien races have a destructive agenda for mankind; others state there are good ones and bad ones, much like humans.

But I believe we are in the midst a great riddle in which the truth is hidden in plain sight and it is time to seek and question as never before.

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I examined it at close range for some twenty minutes, actually touching the "smooth, black, glass-type fabric" and the strange symbols etched into its surface.

Finally, the craft rose upwards and as quoted in the 'Strange But True?' interview, "It slowly started moving back, weaving in and around the trees. It got about 40 feet away, then it raised up into the air and it shot off as fast as you could blink. On the upper left side of the craft, was an inscription. It measured six inches high, of symbols. They looked familiar, but I couldn't ascertain why."

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Sat Apr 14, 2007-(Ellensburg) The expansive Ellensburg horizon has turned up more than just strong winds and sunny skies over the years. Many residents have seen some strange things flying over the Kittitas Valley. A vast number are skeptics and think perhaps what they saw came possibly from the US Army Yakima Training Center. Others are pretty sure what they saw was not from around this neck of the galaxy.

"It is easy to joke about UFOs, until you've seen one," said Ellensburg resident Sue Marvin, who saw three dome-shaped objects over Manastash Ridge on July 31, 2005.

Marvin spotted the objects about eight miles from her house, which sits on a hill overlooking the valley at the north end of Wilson Creek Road.

It made a big impact on her, and a few days later she reported it to the National UFO Reporting Center, located in Davenport, Wash.

Washington has the second-highest UFO reporting rate in the nation, after California, according to the center's Web site, nuforc.org. The center has posted 2,464 reports of UFO sightings in Washington, and 16 of those came from the Ellensburg area.

Washington's latest report, added March 7, is from Ellensburg.

On that July evening, what caught Marvin's eye were three, extremely bright lights on the horizon. They resembled football field lights, she recalled. After watching them for a few minutes, she grabbed her binoculars. What she saw then was 'truly hair-raising,' she said.

"There were three dome, top-round objects with lights around the bottoms or centers," she said.

"They did not move."

"At times all three crafts were visible, then one would fade completely out, then another, then one or two would light back up again."

The disks lingered in the area for more than 15 minutes before simply fading away without moving, she said. The fading and reappearing lights that Marvin saw are not uncommon in UFO reportings. Thousands of people saw something similar on the night of March 13, 1997, throughout the state of Arizona.

The unexplained event, known as The Phoenix Lights, lasted hours and, like Marvin's sighting, those who witnessed it reported lights fading and re-emerging.

Fife Symington, who was governor of Arizona at the time, denied the event and made a joke of it by dressing one of his staff members in an alien costume for a press conference.

However, in March, one decade later, he went on record to say that he had in fact seen the objects and thought they were UFOs.

Symington wasn't exactly known for his integrity as a public figure, and that Arizona event has never been explained, although the government claimed the lights were flares dropped from airplanes. Despite the denials and confusion, the event is to this day the biggest on record in terms of how many witnesses were involved. In most unidentified flying object cases, only one person sees the object.

Such is the case with Ellensburg resident Charlene Schulz, 55, who saw a strange object in the sky from her deck in June of 2005, only a month before Marvin's sighting.

It was on a sunny, cloudless day, Schulz said.

She was relaxing on her deck, which overlooks the valley, when she saw something 'shaped like a torpedo' appear in the sky.

"It was gray."

"There was nothing else in the sky," Schulz said.

The object didn't look solid, she added, but looked more like a cloud."

"From where she was sitting, it appeared to be as large as a submarine, and had a similar shape.

"It was just creepy," she said.

The object slowly moved across the horizon in a straight line.

Then, suddenly eight helicopters came flying out of the cloud.

"It could have been from the Yakima Training Center, but it was the weirdest thing I've ever seen."

Only seconds after the helicopters appeared, the cloud vanished, she said.

Central Washington University physics and astronomy professor Bruce Palmquist agrees that most of the objects people spot in the valley are likely products of the US military.

"There are a lot of test cases, things that the military doesn't want you to find out about."

"Perhaps it was a dud, and they spent billions of dollars on some type of new aircraft that just doesn't work."

He does believe the chances for life on other planets is likely, and that perhaps some of that life is more technologically advanced than ours.

The chances of life visiting Earth, however, is slim, he said.

"From a statistical standpoint, the chance of alien crafts visiting earth seems slight."

The vast, expanding universe is like a beach, and Earth is a grain of sand, he explained.

"What are the odds of them coming here?"

"I mean, just thinking about Roswell, New Mexico, and the alien craft that crashed."

"That's funny to me, that these aliens could develop craft that could get from their distant planet to ours and then crash in New Mexico and get herded up by small-town police."

"They have the technology to build this craft, and then they're captured by Barney Fife, his pistol and one bullet?"

"That story strikes me as a bit odd."

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http://www.kvnews.com/articles/2007/04/13/news/doc461fe46938e193424369

The president of the Tunguska Space Phenomenon research foundation told reporters that several quartz boulders with mysterious writings on them were found in the Tunguska river basin in 2006. The boulders were tested in Krasnoyarsk and Moscow and test results speak for the fact that they are of extraterrestrial origin, he said.

The boulders were covered in strange signs of artificial origin, presumably made with plasma.

Russian researchers suggested a hypothesis that the quartz tablets were parts of an information container delivered to Earth by the extraterrestrial spaceship that crashed in Tunguska region in 1908.

Russian researcher also said that scientists from the United States, Britain, France and Germany have requested the newly-found artifacts for research, but Russians want to be the first people to decode the message from another civilization.

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http://mosnews.com/news/2007/04/18/tunguska.shtml

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April 19, 2007-It was a mysterious, secret government mission. It ended in a fiery plane crash, and a crash site that was all but unknown. Almost 60-years after that plane went down, a curious explorer has found the wreckage, and is now trying to uncover its secrets.

Jim Greean says he has been looking for the wreckage from the 1947 crash near his property near Kelso for 10 years.

Hundreds have searched the undisturbed corner of the Cascade foothills, about 25-miles to the east of Kelso, Washington. But for the last six decades, they found nothing. Newspapers from August 1, 1947 describe the crash of the Air Force B-25 bomber, as its left engine caught fire, and severed the plane's left wing. But as the deep forests of the Northwest had grown, they had hidden the crash site.

The real story, it turns out, wasn't on the front pages of those newspapers from 1947. It was buried deeper, where reporters said the plane's crew members were "flying disk" investigators, searching for UFOs, and carrying a payload of "top secret material." One newspaper reported that "material" included pieces of flying saucers, being taken to California for examination by the Air Force.

The lure of alien evidence has drawn hundreds of explorers to the area, with its steep slopes, deep canyons, overgrown ferns, and moss-covered trees. Jim Greean had been searching for the last ten years, concentrating on the higher hills surrounding the area. Jim didn't even think of the possibility the plane might have crashed into a ravine.

Last Sunday, Jim was hiking along Goble Creek, following its narrow channel as it rushes towards the mighty Columbia River. It was along that Creek, a glint of sunshine caught his eye.

"I looked down and there was a piece of silver looking metal. I had a shovel and I touched it and it was metal, so I slid down the bank and it was the first piece of that plane I found," Jim said. "I started going back up the Creek and it was full of metal. It was like finding gold! I finally found it!"

Jim pulled dozens of pieces of debris from the mud and muck alongside the Creek. Many of the pieces were mangled, some ripped in two by the sheer force of the impact, and some charred, "This almost looks like it's black from being burned." Many more pieces of the plane, Jim left behind. "There were pieces sticking out and I just couldn't pull them out. I'm going to have to go out and dig them out."

Some of the pieces of the wreckage will go on display at Seattle's Museum of Mysteries. Still, Jim didn't find any signs of alien life, or any pieces of flying saucers. He doesn't necessarily buy all the hype, "Spacecraft parts? I don't know about that." But Jim says he's anxious to discover the plane's secrets, now that he's finally found the long lost crash site.

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http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_041907_ufo_bomber.27b05f12.html

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When Adolf Hitler spread his message of hatred, genocide, and oppression, as having been inspired by a blond race of superhuman warriors referred to as Aryans, it is assumed through historical accounts that this was simply the contrived mythology of a madman.

These same accounts omit representation that Adolf Hilter was a member of demonic UFO cult worshipping cabals, and was an apparent UFO contactee, by the same Extraterrestrial group which Hilter sought to glorify.

The Nazis themselves claimed that an extraterrestrial society was the source of their ideology and the power behind their organization. Nazi mysticism, indeed, was reportedly a direct product of cult worship to Manipulative Extraterrestrials.

The Nazis referred to their hidden extraterrestrial masters as underground supermen. Hitler believed in the supermen and claimed that he had once met one of them, as did other members of the Thule leadership.

Some reports also allege that Adolf Hitler escaped capture by the U.S. and its Allies with the assistance of Manipulative Extraterrestrials.

Indeed historical records affirm that Hitler was never found by the Allies. His suicide was originally concocted to quell mass concern that such an individual could have escaped to pursue another World War. Reports suggests that Nazis were preparing for World War III, before the dust hardly settled with their setback of World War II defeat.

The Nazis said that their supermen resided beneath the Earth’s surface and were the creators of the Aryan race. Aryans therefore in Adolf Hitler’s reasoning, constituted the world’s only pure race and all other people were viewed as inferior genetic mutations.

The Nazis under the reported guidance of Manipulative Extraterrestrials planned to re-purify humanity by committing genocide against anyone who was not an Aryan.

Top Nazi leaders believed that the underground supermen would return to the surface of the Earth to rule it as soon as the Nazis began their racial purification program and established the Thousand Year Reich.

These Nazi beliefs are very similar to other religions apparently also guided by Manipulative Extraterrestrials that teach people to prepare for the future return of supernatural beings who will reign over a Utopian Earth.

As in other such religions, the coming of the Nazi supermen would coincide with a great final divine judgment.

Nazi mysticism indeed earned the support of Christian leaders, who shared what Gnostic referred to as influence by demonic consciousness linked to a false God.

Of the divine judgment, Hitler had declared in court during his early Nazi days: “The army we have formed is growing from day to day. I nourish the proud hope that one day the hour will come when these rough companies will grow into battalions, the battalions to regiments, the regiments to divisions, that the old cockade [ribbon or rosette worn on a hat as a badge] will be taken from the mud, that the old flags will wave again, that there will be a reconciliation at the last great divine judgment which we are prepared to face.”

Critical historical accounts have linked Adolf Hitler, and other high ranking Nazis as having communicated with self-anointed Nordic gods who were a part constituency of Manipulative Extraterrestrials which to Gnostics disciples of Jesus were identified as demons.

This is where the National Socialist image of the ideal man/woman and the program of eugenics apparently originated.

Adolf Hilter was apparently ordered to infiltrate the National Socialist German Workers Party in order to counter anti-military sentiments of the defeated working class, into a populist movement which in turn would worship the demonic consciousnesses of Manipulative Extraterrestrials.

Though he lost the war, eventually, Manipulative Extraterrestrials apparently communicated with Nazis that those chosen by Satan will follow with success in establishing a Fourth Reich. Four is the number of Satan/Enki.

Hitler saw the ideal human in Satan and his demons who are of the extra-terrestrial race who looked like human beings with very tall statures, light blonde hair and blue eyes.

Nazi technology is also alleged to have been disseminated under guidance by Manipulative Extraterrestrials. The Nazis had everything before any other country, they had radar in 1933, they had infra-red sensors, heavy water, etc., etc. We have been told lie after lie in terms of who invented these things. If anyone in the world had access to alien technology it was the Aryans.

Hitler did not really commit suicide as some official historical accounts have suggested.

In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler’s death. Many people believe that Hitler escaped from Berlin.”

When President Truman asked Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam conference in 1945 whether or not Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, ‘No.’ Stalin’s top army officer, Marshall Gregory Zhukov, whose troops were the ones to occupy Berlin, flatly stated after a long thorough investigation in 1945: “We have found no corpse that could be Hitler’s.”

The chief of the U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg, Thomas J. Dodd, said: “No one can say he is dead.” Major General Floyd Parks, who was commanding general of the U.S. sector in Berlin, stated for publication that he had been present when Marshall Zhukov described his entrance to Berlin, and Zhukov stated he believed Hitler might have escaped.

Lt. Gen. Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff to Gen. Eisenhower in the European invasion and later Director of the CIA, stated publicly on Oct. 12, 1945, “No human being can say conclusively that Hitler is dead.”

Col. W. J. Heimlich, former Chief, United States Intelligence, at Berlin, stated for publication that he was in charge of determining what had happened to Hitler and after a thorough investigation his report was: “There was no evidence beyond that of hearsay to support the theory of Hitler’s suicide.” He also stated, “On the basis of present evidence, no insurance company in America would pay a claim on Adolph Hitler.”

An article in November, 1949, says “The Nazis went underground, May 16, 1943!” and details an alleged meeting at the residence of Krupp von Bohlen-Halbach, the head of I. G. Farben and agents said that in the aftermath of World War II, Nazis gone underground were planning for “for World War III.”

Another article in August, 1952, entitled “Hitler Did Not Die,” subtitled “Adolph Hitler’s fake suicide in his Berlin Bunker now is exposed as History’s greatest hoax! Positive evidence comes to light that Hitler did not die — here’s new evidence that Hitler is alive, directing the Nazi underground, today!”

On a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program called “As It Happens,” September 17th, 1974 at 7:15 p.m., a Prof. Dr. Ryder Saguenay, oral surgeon from the Dental Faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles, said that Hitler had ordered a special plane to leave from Berlin with all medical and dental records, especially X-rays, of all top Nazis for an unknown destination. He said that the dental records used to identify Hitler’s body were drawn from MEMORY by a dental assistant, who reportedly disappeared and was never found.

An editorial in “Zig Zag,” Santiago, Chile, January 16, 1948, states that on April 30th, 1945, Flight Captain Peter Baumgart took Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, as well as a few loyal friends by plane from Tempelhof Airport to Tondern in Denmark, which was still under German control. From Tondern, they took another plane to Kristiansund in Norway, also German controlled. From there they joined a submarine convoy, [”U.F.O. Letzte Geheimwaffe des III Reiches,” Mattern, pp. 50-51] .

The Jewish writer Michael Bar-Zohar in “The Avengers,” p. 99, said: “In 1943 Admiral Doenitz had declared: “The German U-boat fleet is proud to have made an earthly paradise, an impregnable fortress for the Fuhrer, somewhere in the world.” He did not say in what part of the world it existed, but fairly obviously it was in South America.”

The German writer Mattern said that Admiral Doenitz told a graduating class of naval cadets in Kiel in 1944: “The German Navy has still a great role to play in the future. The German Navy knows all hiding places for the Navy to take the Fuhrer to, should the need arise. There he can prepare his last measures in complete quiet.”

If one accepts the report that Nazi Germany as having been influenced by Manipulative Extraterrestrials, which reportedly have acquired access to technologies which have significantly lengthened their life spans, then it is plausible that indoctrinated followers of Manipulative Extraterrestrials may have been granted similar access to such advanced technologies.

Such technological access would help Nazis realize their ambitions to seek to reclaim a global conquest.

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http://www.ourstrangeworld.net/wp-trackback.php?p=8277

April 17, 2007-According to a report received from researcher Alfonso Salazar, at 8:55 a.m. on April 16, 2007, the crew of an airliner flying southeast out of Mexico City reported coming across luminous traffic described as a large, whitish-blue "ball of light". This occurred when the airliner was south of the Mexican capital, flying at an approximate altitude of 7000 meters.

The crew reported that the unidentified flying object was flying from the south toward the north, while the airliner flew from west to east, at a speed comparable to that of airliners. However, the possibility [that it could have been an airplane] was dismissed, as what was observed was a glowing mass, according to Salazar.

This report is added to other similar cases that have taken place in Mexico.

[Note: Airline and personnel names have been withheld by request.]

(Translation (c) 2007 S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Ana Luisa Cid and Alfonso Salazar)

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www.analuisacid.com
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