http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N141803.htm

"MEXICO CITY, May 14 (Reuters) - A cluster of mysterious objects that
surrounded a Mexican Air Force plane, alarming the pilots and sparking a
UFO scare, could be a weather phenomenon known as ball lightning, a
scientist said on Friday.

Mexico's Air Force this week released footage from the infrared camera that
was shown widely on television.

As Mexican and international media published photographs of the objects,
UFO Web sites saw the case as possible evidence of a new sighting of some
form of extraterrestrial life.

But nuclear science researcher Julio Herrera said the blobs of light may
have been nothing more than ball lightning -- glowing spheres that are
little understood but often sighted near the ground during thunderstorms.

"Just as you have lightning between clouds and ground, you can also have it
within the clouds and sometimes ball lightning can develop. I feel this is
one of these rare events," said Herrera, based at Mexico's National
Autonomous University.

UFO follower Jaime Maussan said on Tuesday the objects seemed "intelligent"
after they turned around to surround the plane chasing them -- but Herrera
said electrical discharges in ball lightning could have been attracted to
the plane as a conductor."

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