Section A · Skeptical aerospace analysis (Mexico)
Alejandro Franz Navarrete
Airline captain (Aeroméxico) · former air traffic controller · meteorologist · director of CENEAAM
Biography
Commercial airline captain (MD-80/88 commander at Aeroméxico, 1981–2007), former air traffic controller (1968–1979) and meteorologist, an independent researcher of anomalous aerospace phenomena since 1963 and director of CENEAAM (Center for Aerospace Studies in Mexico) since 1998. From his site alcione.org he practices a skeptical, technical analysis of UFO cases, seeking conventional explanations before exotic ones. He authored the reference analysis of the Mexican Air Force FLIR case (2004): he showed that the objects captured in infrared were the gas-flaring torches of the Cantarell oil-field platforms, not craft —a conclusion endorsed by researchers such as Ballester-Olmos, Borraz, Janosch, Mori and Ruiz Noguez.
Why they're here · 2 pieces
- 1998
CENEAAM (Centro de Estudios Aeroespaciales en México)
Directs the center for technical analysis of aerospace phenomena in Mexico
- 2004
Análisis del caso FLIR de la FAM (Campeche)
Attributed the FLIR objects to the Cantarell oil-field flares; published in Cuadernos de Ufología
Sources
- Alcione.org — credenciales de Alejandro Franz Navarrete — Original (dead link): http://www.alcione.org/AFN_credentials.html
- Latest UFO Sightings — 'Mexican Air Force FLIR's video lights are not UFOs'
Associated cases (1)
Biography summarized from public sources, classified by section (A-F).