2004 Mexican UFO Alien incident

The case of Ciudad del Carmen and copal relates to an alleged sighting of UFOs by the Mexican air force. The sighting of the lights idenitifcati at first as a UFO by the Mexican Air Force is one of the few UFO events remained etched in journalism in Mexico. The sighting occurred randomly during a mission dedicated to the receiving airline flights for drug trafficking . For several years it has been shown that those lights were oil platforms

On 5 March 2004 , at 17:00, the twin-engine Merlin C26A , carrying the largest Magdaleno Castanon Nunez, Lt. Mario Adrian Vasquez and technical Germán Marín Ramirez, spotted by radar , a group of UFOs over the skies of Ciudad del Carmen and Copala in Mexico , the three soldiers have shot a video showing the public now infrared alleged UFOs , the video was shot with IR, since the objects were not visible to the naked eye.

The aircraft being equipped with technology to IR such as FLIR , Zapphir Star II and radar AN / PS 143 BV3 , was able to film objects, not otherwise visible.

The team was able to establish through the radar, that one of the objects sighted, maintain a constant speed of 26.8224 m / s (60 mp / h ), was later discovered that it was one of the alleged UFO to have slow, however, a trucks on a highway located precisely under the Merlin C26A, the objects were filmed through an IR system, the FLIR (Forward-Looking Infrared), mounted on the dome of the aircraft, the temperature was -130 °, and created problems for FLIR sensors of the system in eight points.