An exchange in Spanish between the radar operator and the captain of the surveillance aircraft, is as follows:

Radar operator: “There they go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, no, there are eight. There we are going to see them, they go to an unusual speed. One, two, three, four, five , six, seven, eight in the screen.”

Captain: “Are they at the same altitude?”

Radar operator: “Affirmative”

“Was I afraid?” said radar operator Lt. German Marin. “Yes. A little afraid because we were facing something that had never happened before.”

“I couldn’t say what it was … but I think they’re completely real,” added Lt. Mario Adrian Vazquez, the infrared equipment operator. Vazquez insisted that there was no way to alter the recorded images.

The plane’s captain, Maj. Magdaleno Castanon, said the military jets chased the lights “and I believe they could feel we were pursuing them.” When the jets stopped following the objects, they disappeared, he said.

Interviewed by Mausson on another section of the video, the pilots said they grew nervous when the objects, still invisible, turned back during the chase and surrounded the plane.

“There was a moment when … the screens showed they were behind us, to the left and in front of us. It was at that point that I felt a bit tense,” said Maj. Magdaleno Castanon.