Frequent Sightings of UFOs in China

YouTube screenshot of the 'UFO' captured in a sonar image. (The Epoch Times)

Multiple Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings have recently been reported across different regions in China. They were spotted from June 30 to July 10 in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the northeastern city of Changchun, the southeastern city of Hangzhou, and the southern city of Xiamen.

People have been perplexed by UFO sightings for many years. Governments tend to be non committal about their existence, one possibility might be that they fear a mass hysteria if announced that they are real. However, independent UFO researchers known as ufologists, are quick to say that “Yes, UFOs do exist.”

Urumqi Xinjiang : UFO Spotted

One recent sighting was in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, in northwestern China. At around 11:00 p.m. on June 30, a round, bright object was seen moving slowly eastward, leaving an enormous, fan-shaped trail of white light behind. A photo taken by a local resident was published in the July 5 issue of Xingjiang Metropolitan Daily.

According to Song Huagang, secretary-general of the Xinjiang Astronomical Society, the object was an intercontinental missile launched by the U.S. on June 30.

The “missile theory” was dismissed on July 9 by Wang Sichao, an astronomy researcher from the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory (also known as Purple Mountain Observatory, under the aegis of the Chinese academy of Sciences.)

Wang told China News Service that it was not a U.S. missile, because Xinjiang and California are more than 7000 km (3450 miles) apart. On viewing the video footage Wang said that the UFO seems to be “somewhat strange,” given its exceptionally bright midsection and its fascinating shape.

Hangzhou: Preferred Hangout

China News Service reported on July 8 that the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in the southeast province of Zhejiang was closed for one hour on July 7, at around 9:00 p.m. Due to a UFO sighting, flights were grounded. According to a witness who was in a plane that was landing, the object looked like a bright twinkling dot, coming and going in the blink of an eye.

Wang Sichao, from the Zhijinshan Astronomical Observatory dismissed the phenomenon, saying, “There is not enough information to draw a conclusion at this time.”

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[xtypo_dropcap]A[/xtypo_dropcap]t around 7:30 p.m. on July 9, another UFO was spotted in the Binjiang Higher Education Park in Hangzhou. A teacher and several security guards witnessed a star-like, white shining ball of light.

“One second it was right here, the next second, it became very, very small: like a faraway star. It flew away at a very high speed,” the teacher (surnamed Li) told Shenzhen Economic Daily.

Changchun’s UFO Video

City Evening News reported that at 3:22 a.m. on July 10, a security guard on the night shift at Huifang Industries in the Changchun Economic & Technological Development Zone, spotted an arm-shaped, spinning object through the video surveillance camera. After about ten minutes, it disappeared. The video replay reveals an object shaped like a curved human arm, appearing from behind some fog. It moved from south to the north before disappearing.

Xiamen’s Beams of Light

Fujian Online (onfj.com) reported that in the early morning hours of July 10, a “sheet of music notes,” composed of vertical light beams, filled up the Xiamen sky in Fujian province.

At first, five beams of light appeared at around 11:30 p.m. on July 9. They quickly grew to around 50 beams. A resident said, “It was very beautiful, like a sheet of music notes.”

When the media arrived at the scene about an hour later, clouds had also moved in, making only a few beams of light visible to the naked eye. However, a picture taken at the time later revealed many more beams of light.

Debate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings and their craft are not new. Wang Sichao, an astronomy researcher from the Zhijinshan Astronomical Observatory told Guangzhou Daily: “I’ve researched about 20 UFOs spotted since 1971. Some of them are swirl-shaped, some fan-shaped, and some are balls of light. They appear at a height of 130 km (426509 ft) to 1,500 km (4921260 ft) above ground. Their speed is much lower than the escape velocity (7 miles/sec on the surface of the Earth.) Some were as slow as 0.18 miles/sec. Yet they can fly parallel to the earth’s surface, at a height of 1,460km (4790026 ft), for as long as 25 minutes. They must have some sort of anti-gravity mechanism. Otherwise, they would have crashed to the earth in no time.”

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