- Well, the analysis is done and the conclusion on the
Mexico 11?
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- It's not a fake.
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- The Mexico 11 is a video showing a number of mysterious
lights in the skies over eastern Mexico.
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- One of the world's foremost videotape analysts lives
in Phoenix and says what you see in the video tape are unidentified flying
objects.
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- Jim Dilettoso spent more than two weeks with the videotape.
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- Dilettoso studied the tape "frame by frame"
studying each orb to find what he calls the "absolute center."
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- "So the first thing I did was to enhance the major
passages of the video looking for any kind of structure because lights
that bright, even on an infrared image, were going to, even for a fleeting
moment, cast a light or make heat happen on some kind of structure,"
he said. "No evidence of structure at all."
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- The pilots who captured the sighting saw no structure
either. In fact, they never saw the lights with their own eyes. They only
appear on tape -- recorded with radar and infrared technology.
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- The pilots, on drug patrol over Campeche, counted 11
bright lights that appear to be flying along with them. When the video
was released, some said the lights must be a phenomenon called "ball
lightning" -- glowing spheres that result from a lightning strike.
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- "I've been collecting data in this area for 38 years
and I have never heard of anything like this that's related to ball lightning,"
said Robert Golka, a world-recognized expert on nuclear science and ball
lightning. He said what's on the tape is not ball lightning.
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- "Ball lightning has been seen to bounce on the floor
and get smaller each time, each bounce, and then go off with a pop,"
he said. "Sometimes the whole thing goes at one time in an explosion
which can damage things in a room. So if it were that type of phenomenon,
I would say yes that would be ball lightning, but this is totally different.
These things appeared, disappeared, followed the plane, were invisible
to the human spectrum. This has got to be something different or a strange
type of ball lightning that we've never heard of before but I kind of doubt
that."
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- Dilettoso begins every project with the idea in mind
that such occurrences could be a hoax, and then tries to rule it out.
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- "We have a number of frames where the light goes
off, appears in another spot, moves, and then comes back and locks on again
in the same place," he said. "This is happening while traveling
at about 200 mph, while the plane is moving at about 200 mph and it's going
on for over 30 minutes."
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- Dilettoso analyzed every frame of the 30-minute tape.
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- A computer model shows that the mysterious lights are
three-dimensional, moving under their own or someone else's control, illuminated
from the inside and like no other aircraft known to man.
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- "It's not like the dome of a car light or a headlight
that's flat with light or slightly curved," he said. "This comes
out in a complete half circle. That's the primary thing we found. It is
kind of weird."
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- And, it's an unidentified flying object.
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