Case Evidence · CE-V86-23
Mexican Defense Ministry release of Air Force FLIR video of 11 heat sources
Claim unverified2004-05 · Official video release
Record
- Date / period
- 2004-05
- Reported event / document
- Mexican Defense Ministry release of Air Force FLIR video of 11 heat sources
- Evidence type
- Official video release
- Original data accessible?
- Yes (video)
- Verification status
- Release documented; explanation unresolved officially
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Radar data not released
- Next step
- Obtain SEDENA records Searched (Spanish and English web, site:gob.mx, transparency-request reports): no SEDENA communiqué, report or transparency folio found online. Official statements survive only as press quotes of Gen. Clemente Vega García (La Jornada, 13 May 2004). Press reports of a c. 2021 SEDENA transparency reply (5 Mar 2004 off Campeche, '3 ecos' on radar) could not be matched to a reply document. Next: search the Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia for SEDENA folios. (chunk G, 2026-11-12) Browser pass (2026-11-12): The Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia search (buscador.plataformadetransparencia.org.mx) shows a CAPTCHA to a real browser too, so it needs a person; Raymond chose not to do it on this pass. Not searched. Flag stays.
- Source ID
- SRC-V86-39
Why this grade
Claim unverified From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Release documented; explanation unresolved officially"). Grade rules.