NUFORC Sighting 19027

Occurred: 2001-08-17 01:45 Local
Reported: 2001-08-17 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Mt. Popocatapetl, , Mexico

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

strange POPO lights with possable midnight vehicle-ufo interaction.

While warching the "Popo" live - cam at the "CENAPRED" site, where ufo's were reported on Filers Files recently, I was mistaking(?) a planet in the the 1:45AM sky, for something unusual: it seemed to change from orange to blue, and also move.... Anyhow, it took a period of about 45 minutes as I watched an obvious vehicle approach and go across the foreground terrain. The headlights eventually stopped as parked. The delineation of the night sky and 'Popo' are very clear. My Live-cam updates in a minute. Then there was a frame of a group of deep bright blue lights, a centre and 5 around it --very clear and in the same foreground distance as approximately the parked headlights. I got then one frame clear, then the next frame seemed to show a white diffuse disc shape in the same place as the blue 'flower'. (I thought "uh-oh". The next frame showed no headlights ,the 1st frame without in over an hour now, and over the area ,an even fainter glowing line visable,but still below the horizon of Popo. Then the digital signal disappeared for all but the top 40% of the view. I'm stumped. Oh,,also on the noon shots of yesterday or day before, ther Were a few black dot ufo's that I mentally wrote off as possable science balloons. I love you guys.

NUFORC Note:

We have had many reports of alleged, unexplained objects over Mt. Popocatapetl in Mexico. However, we have yet to see any photographs that are convincing, and which are suggestive of UFO activity. Most of them clearly seem to be of birds, contrails, or apparently composity photographs, I.e. presumed hoaxes. PD

Posted 2001-08-20