Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering China airport

[Mercy Now]

Why exact ? It's just in line with what they've been doing recently. It also could have been a drone. I just don't think it wasa ufo.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/...65759.html


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/LA20Ad01.html

[Richard]

I say exact because it was reported that this was the first time they had to shut down the airport. Meaning it's never happened before. It doesn't make any sense at all that the military would want to shot a missile over a airport and cause it to shut down. To me if something doesn't make sense it isn't likely that it's true.

[Concept]

That picture that is attached to this article is not related to the incident, that picture is of a helicopter taken during long exposure.

The incident itself is real thou, they had to close down the airport due to something hovering over the airport, so a rocket or spacedebris is out of the equation, they usually don't hover. What it was is not known yet, and the Chinese authorities has not come forward with an explanation.

[Richard]

I'm surprised the Chinese haven't come up with a cover story explanation yet. Like when that portal opened up over Norway the Russians claimed it was a missile. Governments always come up with cover story explanations that most people end up believing.

I agree it wasn't a missile, I think it was either secret government aircraft or a UFO.

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Frequent Sightings of UFO's in China

By Sophia Fang
Epoch Times Staff
Created: Jul 14, 2010 Last Updated: Jul 15, 2010

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 foorage 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.”

At 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.”

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/39238/

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Second UFO seen in Chongqing

ANOTHER unidentified flying object has been seen hovering over a park in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality after the investigation into a UFO that shut Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Airport on July 7 failed to reach a conclusion.

All the alleged witnesses said they saw the same thing - four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape that hovered over the city's Shaping Park for over an hour, Xinhua news agency reported today.

Pictures of the UFO were posted online. The four objects were moving as if they were one, and three had white lights but one was red, report said.

A witness surnamed Chen said it must have been a UFO and people began to notice it around 8pm yesterday.

"I stared at it and it did not move," Chen said. "After hovering for an hour, the thing started to fly higher and finally out of people's sight."

No official explanation has been given.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the UFO that shut down Hangzhou's Xiaoshan airport on July 7 has not yielded any result.

Six grassroots UFO experts came home empty-handed last night after they gathered in Hangzhou to investigate the sighting.

They wanted to obtain radar images from Hangzhou Airport, but officials refused, saying the radar caught nothing when the airport was shut down.

Read more: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/...z0ts1KKulF

[Richard]

I read a news story today that had a interesting theory about the UFO. He thinks it was Venus. However there are conflicting reports if the UFO showed up on radar or not. Some say it didn't and some say it did. It's suspicious that the airport won't release the radar records to confirm it one way or another.


“No prosaic explanation can be formulated at present because the basic facts remain garbled”, writes James Oberg  at ATS. But he does offer a possible explanation.

According to Oberg, as also quoted by Tim Printy on the latest SUNlite, from the best one can extract from the many conflicting reports, apparently “an airliner coming in for landing around 8:40PM saw an UFO”. From the orientation of the Hagzhou airport runway, one can assume the plane was heading to the airport from the southeast.

“If so, this meant the UFO hovering over the airport was to the northwest/west.  A prime candidate was in the western sky that evening, Venus.”

Could a confusion with Venus fool pilots and air controllers, closing an airport for an hour? “There are some historical analogs that may provide suggested avenues of genuine research”, says Oberg. “Here’s one that immediately comes to mind:” the case of Barnaul Airport in Russia back in 2001.

“As it turned out, the runway that the taxiing aircraft stopped on was pointed directly at the horizon where brilliant Venus was setting. The crew reported "a bright UFO", but never mentioned two bright objects, or a "UFO next to Venus". When Venus set, the crew reported that the UFO had flown away.”

The Russian case is evidence that crewmen and traffic controllers may close an airport due to Venus, as unbelievable as this may sound. We are prone to error, much more than we would like to assume.

Pending further, and much better information, it’s possible that the Hangzhou Airport case may have simply involved a confusion with Venus. Or not. In any event, the media only furthered the confusion by quoting anonymous sources on “military connections” and circulating illustrative images of airplanes, helicopters and even rocket launches seen in Kyrgyzstan.

http://forgetomori.com/2010/ufos/ufo-ove...ong-expos/

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New Hangzhou UFO Photo and Xiaoshan Airport Staff Interview

2010 by Linda Moulton Howe
 

“There was an unknown object seen in the skies over the airport. So, according to our regulations, we had to close the airspace. Aircraft movements were suspended from 8:45 PM to 9:45 PM (on July 7, 2010).”

- Ruan Zhouchang, Spokesperson, Xiaoshan Airport, Hangzhou, China

Shanghai Newspaper Front Page headline with July 7, 2010, Hangzhou UFO photograph. published on July 9, 2010. Entire newspaper delivered to me by Shanghai resident.

June 20, 2010  Hangzhou, China - I have received a new image of the Hangzhou unidentified aerial craft from a Hangzhou contact who requests anonymity. The photo below was reportedly taken on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, between 8:00 PM and 9:30 PM near the Xiaoshan Airport in which airline flights were suspended from 8:45 PM to 9:41 PM.

Image submitted to Earthfiles.com from an American-Chinese businessman with contacts in Hangzhou, China, who has asked to remain anonymous. “The photo is real per my trusted employee. Taken between 8 PM and 9:30 PM on July 7, 2010, within 25 kilometers of Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou. The buildings match the area. The lights out so early in evening is very common as power costs more in China than USA.  Please do not use my name.”

Also, Blue Ocean Network's BON Headlines interviewed Ruan Zhouchang, Spokesperson for the Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China. Here is the link to the BONLIVE.com interview:

Here is the complete transcript of the BONLIVE.com interview with Ruan Zhouchang, Spokesperson, Xiaoshan Airport, Hangzhou, China:

    Ruan Zhouchang:  “There was an unknown object seen in the skies over the airport. So, according to our regulations, we had to close the airspace. Aircraft movements were suspended from 8:45 PM to 9:45 PM (on July 7, 2010).”

    BON Reporter:  “Airport staff say the first reports of the UFO came in just after 8 PM from both air traffic controllers and civilians. The object at the center of the commotion, visible as a light in the sky, was captured in this photo. [ BONLIVE shows video frame with arcing light circled near Xiaoshan Airport.] It might not look like much, but it does not belong to a civilian aircraft. Nor does it match the flight plan of any aircraft supposed to be operating in the area at the time.

    Ruan Zhouchang said there were few eyewitnesses because the event occurred at night when most staff members were not present and passengers were in the waiting hall.

    During the hour in which the airspace was closed, six flights were grounded and six inbound flights were diverted to nearby airports at Ningbo, Wuxi and Shanghai. In total, almost 1,000 passengers were inconvenienced by the closure. Flights have long since returned to normal and an investigation of the mysterious lights is underway.

    UFO sightings are nothing new in China, which has a history of such unknown objects almost as rich as the U. S.  China's web users are all abuzz with speculation ranging from it might be a Chinese or foreign military aircraft testing to the slightly implausible idea that it's aliens  coming to watch the World Cup final.

    It might disappoint UFO enthusiasts, but Ruan Zhouchang says it is highly unlikely that the investigation will find any evidence of non-human behavior.”

    Ruan Zhouchang:  “When the results of our investigation are published, we might have a clearer idea. Or we might never know.”    

Further, I received the following email with the Hangzhou, China, image below included that shows the spire of silver metal spheres atop the roof of the lower right structure commonly used as lightning rod or roof decorations in Hangzhou.

Subject:   The China UFO & My 2004 Vashon Island, WA Sighting
Date:   July 18, 2010
To:   Linda Moulton Howe <[email protected]>

Photo taken by a Hangzhou resident shows an unidentified flying object hovering over Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, around 9 PM, Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Note the three-sphere lightning rod used only in Hangzhou, China, rising from lower right roof. See People's Daily Online.

    Hello, Linda:

    I thought I’d share with you my experience having seen one like this, but from a much closer perspective than what’s apparent in this photo. This one in the photo was very much like the one I saw, but without the bright glow from the bottom. Mine looked like a dull, inner-luminous pewter.

    It had those lights on the edge, exactly like this one. They were virtually the same in size and appearance to horizontal traffic signal lights – no green or yellow, but alternately flickered a deep red or a light pink rose color. When I tried to focus my eyes on them I found it impossible. They seemed to be there and yet have “no perspective” with regard to distance perception as we know it. The black edge that ran around the entire craft was no more than 6"  in height, filled with those traffic signal-sized lights in a single horizontal row, side-by-side and separated by about 3"  from each other. It was as though these lights existed both here and elsewhere at the same time and I was not biologically equipped to perceive it.

    How did I come to see it? It was at 4 AM in the late summer of 2004 when I was living on Vashon Island near Seattle, Washington. I was asleep and was awakened by my gray, longhair cat. He was in the bedroom window, squeezed between the blinds and the glass, making a chattering noise like he’d seen a bird. I got up and looked because I heard no birds and was wondering what his problem was. More so, I didn’t want him to damage the blinds, so I pulled them up. I nearly fell to my knees as to what I saw. My cat stayed there with me watching it the entire time.

    I took off my glasses and cleaned them with my shirt while not taking my eyes off it. I even slapped my face to make sure I was awake and put them back on. It was still there. It was hovering just above my eye level, over the cow pasture behind my apartment complex only 3 feet away from my 3rd story apartment bedroom window on Vashon Island near Seattle.

    I’d been a trained observer as an industrial safety consultant and a technical writer for close to 27 years at that time, so it was easy to take it all in, judging distances and perspective to get an accurate reading, while saying it aloud to myself and my cat what I was perceiving.

    It was between thirty to forty feet in diameter and about 12-feet-high from the rounded dome on the top to the bottom. The dome, which had no distinctive seam, was entirely smooth. It occupied about 1/3 of the upper surface area of the disc-shaped craft. I saw no “windows,” but it seemed to glow dimly from inside. It was tilted about 10-degrees in the direction it was moving, very slowly from south to north at barely walking speed.

    What was odd was my immediate impression that it was not be propelled in the way you or I would assume. It “felt” as though it created a “cavitation” in the direction it wanted to move, and was “drawn forward” into the cavity it created. A cavitation in Space-Time? I have no idea. Try to imagine a submarine that could somehow project a cone-shaped field in front of it, pointed-end away from it, and it caused water to displace, creating a vacuum to move the submarine forward. There was no sense of “propulsion,” as you’d assume. That’s the closest I can get to a description.

    It finally went out of view after what seemed to be about two long minutes. Just as I had the thought to go outside and see more of it, to grab my camera in the other room and try to take a photo, an immediate “NO!” entered my mind. That thought froze me in place until I decided I wouldn’t go outside. I have no idea if it was my common sense speaking to me or if it was someone or something else.

    Again, it was the lights on the edge that to me was so riveting. I have to say I wish I’d seen the letters, “USAF” on the side, but no such luck. I don’t even pretend to know what this was other than some kind of craft. I have no idea if this is the result of Reagan’s defense spending or if it really is some kind of extraterrestrial technology. Why it was outside my window is an entirely different question. My guess is because it decided to stay low and evade radar while observing us at night through our walls – perhaps they are scientists? My guess.

 http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=17...nvironment

[Richard]

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[Richard]

It seems the investigation is over and the story is it was either a private or military aircraft. Since people didn't recognize the craft I suspect it was a secret military craft.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/...80675.html