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 Was UFO scare a load of balls?
    May 16 2004 at 05:02AM Get IOL on your
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Mexico City - 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.

The pilots grew nervous during a drugs surveillance flight in March, when their radar detected strange objects flying nearby and an infra-red camera showed 11 blobs of light hovering or darting about their plane. - Reuters

    • This article was originally published on page 0 of Sunday Tribune on May 16, 2004
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