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A rep for the company tells TMZ ... a team of Red Bull Air Force skydivers took the plunge over Santa Monica at around 5:00 PM on December 1 -- the exact time and day Manu was caught on tape
watching glowing objects descend from the sky.

As for the glowing? We're told the skydivers were carrying powerful flares during their descent.

Favre's record-setting consecutive starts streak will end at 297 games thanks to a shoulder injury he suffered last week against the Buffalo Bills.

Favre's record is pretty safe ... for now ... the closest active player is Peyton Manning at 205 consecutive games.

Some perspective? Miley Cyrus was not alive the last time Brett didn't start.

Shane seems pretty confident he'll be the challenger, now that Floyd Mayweather appears unwilling to step up.

Today's game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings had already been postponed when the collapse occurred.

Sunday morning, the NFL announced the game would be moved to Detroit and played on Monday.

The new couple was spotted all over town, finally getting snapped together as they returned to their hotel in the wee hours of the morning.

UFO aficionado Robert Kiviat -- the executive producer of "Alien Autopsy (Fact or Fiction?)" -- tells TMZ ... he believes the bright objects Manu spotted over L.A. on December 1 were most likely "from Earth, not a distant planet."

Kiviat says the objects appear to have "avoided crashing into the ground by making some sort of course corrections" ... therefore "one strong possibility is the UFOs were experimental military craft."

According to Kiviat, he believes the objects were part of "some sort of military test and farther away from the area than they appear."

Manu eyeballed the UFO when he was in town to play the Clippers on December 1 -- and he has since launched a serious investigation into the matter ... which involved a lot of Googling.

Manu posted his findings on his Facebook page yesterday, saying the best answer he could come up with was "a kind of spacecraft which is called X-37B and was supposed to land in the area between December 3 and 6. According to various media, it landed on Dec 3."

Manu points out that he spotted the craft on December 1 ... not December 3 ... so THE MYSTERY REMAINS.

It's all going down at UFC 124 in Montréal, Québec on Saturday -- when Georges defends his welterweight title against America's own Josh Koscheck.

Jenn Sterger's rep just appeared on the "Dan Patrick Show" and said, "If the [NFL] commissioner suspends Favre and puts him in a program to make sure this doesn't happen again ... 100 percent ... Jenn would not pursue any litigation against Favre, against the Jets, against anybody."

Sterger's rep also insists Brett's agent tried to pay Jenn off before the story first appeared on Deadspin.com -- saying, ""He asked me is there a specific figure you had in mind to make this go away."

Pacquiao is firing back at RBM Group International -- claiming their $10 million lawsuit against him for allegedly backing out of a 12 song record deal is nothing more than a "shakedown."

In the documents, obtained by TMZ, Manny claims RBM was supposed to pay him $160k up front -- but he only got a check for $40,000 ... and therefore he has no legal obligation to make an album.

According to sources close to the Lakers ... Kobe Bryant and co. will hook up with the Prez at a Washington, D.C. area B&G Club -- yet to be named -- instead of their usual stop at the White House.

You'll remember LeBron (in)famously announced he was leaving Cleveland at a B&G Club.

Now, we know most B&G clubs have basketball courts ... and we know how much Obama loves b-ball -- so, could a one-on-one showdown be in the works? Lakers reps are tight-lipped about the meeting.

It's unclear why Meyer quit the Florida gig -- but his most famous alum, Tim Tebow, is now coachless over in Denver.

TMZ obtained these pics -- taken moments after private security guard Shayne Smith claimed Floyd poked him in the cheekbone during a parking dispute in the boxer's private Las Vegas community.

As we first reported, Smith told police that he placed citations on two of Floyd's cars -- which angered Mayweather so much, that he grabbed one of the citations and slammed it on Smith's patrol vehicle (pictured above right).

We're told Smith is still employed by the private security company -- but he's been shifted to a different patrol area to avoid another incident with Floyd.

Dude even brought his own sippy cup -- you don't wanna miss this!

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TMZ has obtained the criminal complaint -- in which cops say a private security officer named Shayne Smith told officers Mayweather went ballistic outside of his Las Vegas home on November 15 after Smith placed parking citations on two of Floyd's cars.

According to the documents, Smith alleges Mayweather screamed that the guard had "no f*cking business" touching his personal property -- before the boxer grabbed a citation from one of his cars and slapped it on Smith's patrol vehicle.

The document continues, "While lambasting Smith, Mayweather was allegedly jabbing his finger into the left side of Smith's cheek just below his eye. This willful and unlawful use of force and violence upon Smith caused redness and discoloration to the area which was battered by Mayweather."

Smith claims he drove out of the area to "de-escalate" the situation, immediately notified his boss ... and then took photos of his bruised up cheek.