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Monday, May 17, 2004

Science fun: Weather may explain Mexico UFO stir

My, the conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one. CNN is reporting that "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," according to a scientist. "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."

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