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responsibility. And we know these things have traffic at 12 o'clock. It's too close.’ are flying around the aircraft because the And I have to say to the pilot, ‘This is not pilots report them to us. And it is the testi- known traffic.’ mony of the computer. “Why do they appear on final approach? "Sometimes the objects are in static Why? Why do they cross the path of an flight, stationary. This was the case with airplane? So, when we see lights or echoes Captain Ruano. Just before that incident, and they are interfering with our control, we received reports from people in the we worry." street, calling us to ask what's going on. Until this camcorder flap, there were but They said there was an object near the Diaz a handful of photographs or films depicting building and an aircraft was passing unknowns and knowns in the same shot. extremely close to it. We had nothing on Now, many recent video segments out of radar. Then we received the emergency Mexico contain airliners (knowns) and call from Aeromexico. It was a very dan- UFOs (the unknowns) in the same frame. gerous situation." Some show the unidentified craft moving The two explained that every identified out of the way of oncoming traffic, others aircraft carries a transponder that relays show the objects pacing the planes, and one data to the control centre computers. Each shows a UFO sitting piggyback directly echo has a tag with the call-sign of the air- above a passenger-carrying aircraft. craft, the flight number, the name of the "I've been working in this field for 25 flight, the speed, the altitude and the type years," Mike continued. “And you get used of aircraft. Their problems arise when to some strange phenomena, but these unidentified echoes appear on radar, espe- objects also seem to interfere with the elec- cially in the air corridors above the city. tronic instruments of the aircraft. “Many times the UFOs appear when an Somehow, the energy of the objects distorts aircraft is on final approach to the runway.” the computers which begin giving bad Rick's concerns surfaced. "It's not only readings. Wrong readings. Wrong alti- dangerous for the aircraft—you know, an _ tudes. aircraft could go down—but this is very "The pilots have to take manual control dangerous because our airport is in the of the aircraft. They have to shut off the city." automatic system because it's giving false Mike agreed. “The pilots are reporting directions. The pilots don't know what's objects crossing their path when they are happening. Their speed reads an increase. on approach. Sometimes the report regis- For instance, in a Boeing 747 we register a ters on radar. Sometimes it doesn't. But speed of 500 knots. Suddenly it jumps to the pilots see these objects and want to 800 knots. That's not possible for a normal know what the traffic is. They might say, ‘I aircraft. We have even talked to the engi- neers that work on our system and we've asked if these are failures in the images we receive. They say, ‘No. These echoes and readings are real." There are approximately 150 air traf ic controllers in Mexico City. Most of them have seen the unidentified echoes or had visual contact with unknowns. In one par- ticular case, 15 unknowns flew in curious patterns for over one hour. "We saw the objects on the screen," Rick said, "and at the same time the controllers in the Toluca tower had visual contact. On the screen the echo looks like an aircraft with a void of information. And at that time we didn’t have any known traffic in the area. Just 15 unidentified objects, fly- ing in a way no aircraft can, and visual confirmation of our echoes." On 16th September 1994, Mexico's Independence Day, an unknown echo was charted on radar for five hours while con- trollers at the Toluca airport and civilians in the city viewed the aerial antics in disbe- lief. Since 1991, the appearance of unknowns on this date has provided some of the best UFO footage ever scen. As if desiring to participate in the annual cele- bration, unknowns regularly appear before, during or immediately after the military air parade. This inexplicable, overt behaviour of the UFOs being seen over Mexico began in July 1991 during the total solar eclipse, when unknowns were videotaped by 17 different people in four different cities. Labelled by ancient Mesoamerican cultures as the "Sixth Sun", this eclipse was prophe- sied to herald a shift in consciousness, cou- pled with life-altering events which includ- ed "encounters with the Masters of the Stars". Some observers have speculated that the mass sightings of the past five years may well be phase one—an introduc- tory level to future direct encounters. Since the eclipse, these "Voyagers of the Sixth Sun" have inundated the skies of this country. Literally thousands of reports have been filed from all areas of the coun- try, by people in all walks of life. Basically ignored by the media in the rest of the world, Mexico's print and television jour- nalists have thoroughly covered this his- toric, ongoing flap which has been duly given headlines on several occasions. On 2nd January 1993, every major news- paper in Mexico City carried headlines similar to La Prensa's "ASTONISHMENT! UFOs OVER THE CAPITAL!" Column Cel a GARLIC CAPSULES coin bs. JHEA Litt Shion | HNN AE DA A SS aNes vl ”? PS eid) FS HERBAL SHAMPOO iyo 68 » NEXUS APRIL-MAY 1996 nr