Astronomy researcher: UFOs not rare but regular

www.chinaview.cn 2008-06-29 09:46:43

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/29/content_8457182.htm

BEIJING, June 29 -- An astronomy researcher reckons UFOs have been visiting Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province, every five to 10 years for the past three decades, the local Modern Express reported yesterday.

Wang Sichao, a researcher at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing has been studying UFOs for more than 30 years and says there are explanations for many of them especially those shaped like shooting stars, bright spots, stars and rods.

These are usually natural phenomena or man-made objects, Wang said.
But another seven shapes including spirals, fans, circles, spindles and V-shaped objects remain inexplicable, he said.

These UFOs may well hail from outer space, Wang said.

The first report of a UFO in China was in Nanjing in 1892 when a painting by Wu Youru, a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) artist showed crowds gathered near Nanjing's Confucius Temple, looking up at a "fire ball" in the sky, Wang said.

The last visit of a UFO to the Jiangsu city occurred at about 5pm on January 10, 2006 when an orange V-shaped UFO with a long tail was seen near the northern side of the Purple Mountain and over the city's Jiangning and Jiangpu districts, said Wang.

On January 14, 1999, a rod-shaped UFO appeared for nearly four hours in the skies of Nanjing - the longest UFO sighting on record for the city. Witnesses said the shining red item, which was about 10 kilometers high and three kilometers long, moved slowly across the sky and its lights gradually faded as it passed over the city.

(Source: Shanghai Daily)

UFO tape recording revealed

By Li Xinran | 2008-6-30 | NEWSPAPER EDITION

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200806/20080630/article_365025.htm

AN audio recording of a pilot who saw an unidentified flying object 17 years ago in Shanghai was revealed at the weekend.

The tape was recorded in the cockpit of flight 3556 from Shanghai to Ji'nan, Shandong Province at 6:15pm on March 18, 1991. Numerous people in Shanghai reported seeing the UFO fly over the city's northwest, and it was seen by witnesses in Wuxi, neighboring Jiangsu Province.

The dialogue between the pilot and control tower was released at a UFO forum on Saturday in Shanghai, the Nanjing-based Jinling Evening News reported.

From 6:12pm to 6:26pm, the UFO followed the flight, varying its form, velocity and altitude, the tape revealed. Flight controllers urged the pilot to change routes several times to avoid colliding with it, according to the newspaper.

The control tower saw the orange flying object first but no trace of the UFO was recorded by airport radar, the newspaper said.

"I saw an unidentified flying object 7 nautical miles away in front of me after taking off. I was heading to 280 degrees and the object was like a ball of fire, about 3 to 5 meters long," said the pilot on tape.

"It was flying fast toward the northeast and flew further away after I swung to the left. It then turned around and headed toward 100 degrees south, and lowered its altitude.

"I tried to avoid it while it changed its route to the north, when it transformed itself into a long black object and again lowered altitude before rising. It then appeared as a black rectangle and a round ball flying first to the northeast, then the northwest, before rising again."

Nineteen UFOs have been seen in China since 1971, Wang Sichao, a researcher at Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, said at the forum.

UFO hovers over Chongqing for half an hour

2009-08-28 08:49

At about 10 pm on the evening of August 23, a UFO appeared in the sky above Beibei Binjiang Road in Chongqing. The UFO was "V" shaped and its color changed in the order of red, blue, green, yellow and white at short intervals. Hundreds of people watched but no one heard any sound produced by engines or propulsion equipment.

During the half hour that the UFO appeared, a civil airplane passed by. Witnesses compared the civil airplane to the UFO and discovered that the UFO was obviously flying at a higher attitude.

After hovering for about half an hour, the periphery of the UFO began to twinkle and then it disappeared in the night sky.

Article with 2 photographs here:

http://english.eastday.com/e/0828/u1a4613407.html