- Dear Jeff,
-
- I send you our English translation to the Flir audio
recordings during the
- incident of March 5, 2004. The crew conversations reflect
the emotional
- moments they experienced during this unprecedented incident.
-
- Best wishes,
- Santiago
-
-
-
- ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE FLIR AUDIO RECORDINGS FROM
- THE MEXICAN AIR FORCE MERLIN C26A.
-
- Audio sequences courtesy of Jaime Maussan
- Translation by Santiago Yturria
-
- DATE: MARCH 5, 2004
- LOCATION: CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, CAMPECHE AERIAL SPACE
-
- NOTE: The order of the voices does not correspond to
the same
- officers in every segment. The order is made according
to the appeareance
- of each voice in each segment.
-
- PART 1: PRIOR TO THE UFO INCIDENT THE C26A IS ON MISSION
FLYING OVER SUSPICIOUS
- DRUG SMUGGLING RUNWAYS.
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 12:55:09 to 12:55:29
-
- CREW CONVERSATIONS:
-
- VOICE A: Do you have the lagoon on sight ?
- VOICE B: Yes it is to the right.
-
- VOICE A: We get to the lagoon and weíll do that.
- VOICE B: To the right ?
- VOICE A: Yes
-
- VOICE B: And we go back to the point, or do we move away?
- VOICE A: We move away, that is, we make a pattern more
or less an arc type.
- VOICE B: OK.
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 13:16:22 to 13:16:33
-
- NO DIALOGUES.
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 16:42:44 to 16:43:30
-
- VOICE A: Almost to 12 of our position, distance, 2.9,
speed, 75.
- VOICE B: Pan more to the left because of the sun.
- VOICE C: Yes.
-
- VOICE B: Pan to the left
- VOICE A: OK I see it.
-
- VOICE A: The runway is here at one
- VOICE C: Where are you ?
- VOICE A: Ehhh, at 12 of our position, 2.3.
- VOICE B: A runway
-
- PART 2: Unknown traffic has appeared. The crew begins
to take action.
- They report a traget to the base that is suspected to
be a clandestine airplane.
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 16:45:33 to 16:45:55
-
- VOICE A: I'll tell you right away
- VOICE B: A position ?
- VOICE C: A position.. 7- 4
- VOICE A: At 12 of our position, I still have it there
- VOICE D: A traffic
- VOICE E: Can you get me the headquarters officer, Captain
Danzon to let
- him know that we are locating the target.
- VOICE A: Point Carmen 18- 4
- VOICE B: It's marking 2-106 of speed and has a heading
of 301
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 16:52:03 to 16:53:00
-
- VOICE A: It's behind the clouds.
-
- VOICE A: What could it have been ?
- VOICE B: Don't know. It went on the other side, exactly
where I had it.
-
- The Flir operator trying to track the object through
the clouds.
-
- VOICE A. Come come.
- VOICE B: Go.
-
- VOICE A : Right, right.
- VOICE B: Here it goes !! Here it goes !!
-
- VOICE B: There it goes, there it goes.
-
- PART 3: The object is clearely visible by the Flir. The
crew begins to wonder
- about the unknown light
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 16:50:03 to 16:50:22
-
- VOICE A: What is it Juarez ? Juarez what is it?
- VOICE B: It's a point
- VOICE C: A point. It's there.
- VOICE D: It's there behind us.
- VOICE C: Its correct, it's now at 7 of our position
at 10.5 miles
-
- VOICE C: It has a course of 2- 8- 3 and a speed of 3-3-4
-
- VOICE D: More.
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 16:55:16 to 16:57:32
-
- VOICE A: At least we contacted it with the Flir and we
have Radar contact
- all the time.
- VOICE B: What altitude does it have, more or less, boss?
- VOICE A: I think it has the sameas us.
- VOICE B: Aahh.
-
- VOICE C: The Flir angle is... straight.
-
- VOICE C: Exactly.
- VOICE A: It's above us
- VOICE C: That's right.
- VOICE B: Ah that's why you did'nt see it.
-
- VOICE D: I'm almost losing it on the Radar, it's almost
out.
- VOICE B: Aahh.
- VOICE A: OK
- VOICE C: It's exactly one mile from Carmen. From Carmen.
-
- VOICE B: How many miles ?
- VOICE C: One or two miles from Carmen.
- VOICE D: I don't have it on the screen but the Radar
is still marking the
- distance at 37 miles.
- VOICE C: It's now over Carmen.
-
- VOICE B: Well, then it's been lost.
- VOICE D: Here it comes.
- VOICE C: It's passing by Carmen.
-
- VOICE D: It is still going there.
-
- VOICE D: What's it doing ?
- VOICE C: It's turning
- VOICE D: It is turning right ?
- VOICE C: Yes.
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 16:59:05 to 16:59:46
-
- VOICE A: Just a light. It could'nt be distinguished
- VOICE B: It could'nt be distinguished if it was a plane
or something.
-
- VOICE C: It is the same one that we saw awhile ago.
- VOICE D: Yes.
-
- VOICE E: Paying attention, eh ?
-
- FLIR TIME PERIOD: (Hour/Min/Sec) 17:03:36 to 17:07:40
-
- PART 4: TWO OBJECTS APPEAR.
-
- VOICE A: Let me check .
- VOICE B: At 7 at the same altitude.
- VOICE C: There are some clouds, it must be seen over
there.
-
- VOICE D: That but, let's see, look for that, that is
behind us.
- VOICE E: Look how it looks. It looks like its in two
parts.
- VOICE C: It is at 7 or 8 of our position.
-
- VOICE C: The strange thing is, that it has a point in
the forward
- position. A ëlittle pointí in front of it.
-
- VOICE C: It's not there? There goes another one.
-
- More objects ëin formationí appear in the
Flir. The operator detected them
- and is moving the Flir camera backwards to count them.
-
- VOICE F: Lets' see, what do we have ?
- VOICE A: Nothing sir. Hold on, let me look.
- VOICE C: Commander what's that ?
- VOICE F: At what distance did you have them Tellez ?
- VOICE C: Ehh?
- VOICE A: Hey, beware, this is like...
- VOICE C: They'remore coming. There are more, they are
behind. There are
- ten, eleven objects.
- VOICE A: There are many objects.
- VOICE F: Ehh?
- VOICE C: They must be at 9 of the position now.
- VOICE F: At 9. Hold on.
- VOICE A: At 9, same altitude almost.
- VOICE F: OK, hold on.
- VOICE C: Affirmative. They're going
-
- VOICE C: They're going.
-
- VOICE C: Go one..
- VOICE A: One
- VOICE C: And they are going with the others at the back,
the ones that follow.
- VOICE F: My God, what's that.
- VOICE B: They are running each other (smiling)
-
- VOICE F: What's that? Let's see. Try to focus.
-
- VOICE C: It's at maximun.
- VOICE F: OK, don't let them leave you behind.
-
- VOICE F: OK
- VOICE C: Go.
- VOICE F: Follow that one Tellez, don't leave it.
- VOICE C: There they go, all of them, there are aproximately
ten, did you
- see them ? Have you seen them?
- VOICE F: You follow them.
-
- VOICE C: There they go.
- VOICE A : There they go.
-
- VOICE A: Three, four, five. six... Are there six ?
-
- VOICE F: Below or above ? Above ? Where.
- VOICE C: In the middle, there they go, at the same altitude.
- VOICE A: There they go look, one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven...
- no there are eight.
-
- VOICE F: How terrible...
- VOICE C. They are going to be seen better - there.
-
- VOICE C: And they're going at a speed that...
-
- VOICE C: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
on the screen
- VOICE F: Follow them, don't lose them.
-
- VOICE A: Are they at the same altitude, Tellez ?
- VOICE C: Affirmative. Above.
-
- VOICE C: Eight, nine, ten, eleven counting all the ones
in the back.
- VOICE C: Two, four, six, eight, ten, eleven.
-
- VOICE F: ( Apparently talking to the base ) Listen we
don't know what are
- we seeing, they are just luminous objects that are flying
at the same altitude
- as us. We can not know what their distance is.
-
- VOICE B: At what position do you have it, Tellez ?
- VOICE C: At 8.
- VOICE F: At 8 or 9.
- VOICE B: At 9. I don't think the Radar may read it, we
have a blind angle
- there, Sir.
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