Case file · Sighting

Lights over Popocatépetl, 2015

In early October 2015 webcam footage again showed lights moving over Popocatépetl during a period of eruptions, renewing talk of the volcano as a 'UFO base'.

2015 CE · 19.03, -98.63 · status: account

The sceptical view

Lights over an active volcano have many ordinary sources: lightning in ash plumes, aircraft, glowing ejecta and camera artefacts. CENAPRED did not treat the footage as anomalous.

Connections in the atlas

Sources

  1. El Universal (English): Mystery lights filmed over Popocatépetl
Open it in the living atlas