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The Campeche Lights
By Scott Corrales
FATE :: July 2004
At 1700 hours on March 5, 2004 a Merlin C26 belonging to the Mexican Air Force (FAM, in Spanish) and piloted by Magdaleno Castañón was engaged in its regular patrol flight between the states of Chiapas and Campeche. The Merlin’s crew also included radar operator Lt. Germán Marín and infrared camera operator Adrian Vázquez plus five other airmen. These flights, part of the international war on drugs, seek to intercept low-flying, narcotics-laden small aircraft headed toward the United States.
Major Castañón’s patrol was in the vicinity of Ciudad del Carmen when his radar operator alerted him of a contact at an altitude of 3,500 meters. A decision was made to pursue the object, which flew into the cloud banks. Within minutes, both radar and infrared operators had confirmed the presence of 11 objects, appearing as intensely bright points of light on the FLIR infrared cameras but invisible to the naked eye in spite of being only two miles away. During the encounter, the objects aligned with each other and made high-speed turns and sudden stops and starts.
But the hunters soon became the hunted as instruments showed that the 11 contacts—orbs of bright light to the unfeeling eye of the infrared lens—had surrounded the patrol aircraft, causing Castañón to take evasive measures. The concern felt by the crew comes across clearly on the videotape as the pilot advises, “Put on your seat belts,” and another crewman says, “Don’t scare me.” ....
Read the rest of this article in the July 2004 issue of FATE
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