This week's entry is dedicated to all the flyers I have on file. Yes, I mean entities that actually appear to fly.

Let's start with the flyer a Mexican policeman saw on January 16, 2004.

"The night was cold and dark and the streets were empty when Samaniego made a turn onto Alamo street and immediately noticed something very unusual.

"A huge, black object fell from a tree beside the street but it stopped just before touching the ground...and then slowly landed and turned itself to face the patrol car. At that moment, officer Samaniego knew that something was wrong. So he turned on the high beams of his car to try to see what was this black object that fell from the tree was.

"That's when Samaniego's nightmare began.

"It was a woman...all dressed in black that fell from the tree but she didn't touch the ground, just remained floating several feet from the ground, declared officer Leonardo Samaniego. I saw her very well and then she landed softly on the ground and stood there looking at me. She was trying to cover her face from the lights of the car, I think they were bothering her. I could see two big black eyes on her, completely black without eyelids, and her skin was dark brown. She was all dressed in black with cloak and cape like a witch and she seemed very upset by the lights."

The full story is at http://www.rense.com/general48/entity.htm

Several more incidents are at http://www.rense.com/general66/flying.htm

"February 14, 2004, Ana Luisa Cid along with two more witnesses videotaped in Mexico City a rare sighting of three flying entities interacting among each other and performing strange manoeuvers while in the same spot in the sky.

"The three dark beings seemed joined together...and then they separated. The big entity remained floating in the same spot, waving what seemed to be a huge cloak while above a kind of winged entity seemed to be vibrating itself.

"During this sequence, a small dark entity arrived and was 'absorbed' by the big one. Some minutes later, it was released and left the spot flying to the right. "

On June 17, 2005:

"Horacio's first reaction was to go inside his home and grab his videocamera, so he ran inside shouting to his sister to come outside with him to see this bizarre thing over the building.

"Both of them went outside and the "Thing" was still there, floating just a few feet above the front building's roof and Horacio's sister reacted by saying "What is that?" Horacio immediately began taping the 'thing' with his video camera.

"When Horacio applied the camera's zoom and got a closer look through the viewfinder he recevied a major surprise which left a profound impression on him.

"Horacio Roquet: "It looked like a human-shaped body, 'standing' vertical and just floating over the roof. I was shocked. The figure was not facing me...I was looking straght at its right side. It was tall. No sound was heard and we both stood still, watching, while I continued recording."

"March 5, 2000, Salvador Guerrero - a respected skywatcher - videotaped for several minutes a dark humanoid shaped entity over his neighborhood in Colonia Agricola Oriental in Mexico City.

"The humanoid entity was stationary in the sky, spinning on its axis, and you could see very well arms and legs. Then it moved, dissapearing behind some buildings."

Another article about flyers is at http://www.rense.com/general66/humsan.htm

And just to demonstrate that it's not a solely Mexican phenomenon, there was also a report, with pictures, of a flyer of some kind in Santa Monica.

So what are these things? Some witnesses indicate that the entities are somewhat misshapen for human beings, as if there is a back pack on their backs. Some witnesses indicate that the entities are shaped as if they are wearing something cloak-like. And SOME of the entities seem to merge and then separate.

So we seem to have several different types of phenomena going on here, at least. Of course there is always the possibility that at least some of these sightings are of quite normal balloons; that cannot be eliminated. But all of the sightings? Not likely. The police officer, for instance, was not frightened by a balloon.

So what are these things? Experimental flight devices, perhaps, in some cases. Some of the footage leans in that direction. But not all of it. No, not all of it.

Questions. And that is where I will leave off until next week, when I will continue to examine this and a related topic.