This is a case from 2010. Almost 1000 people’s flights were delayed for about 4 hours by a UFO in China. Cool pics! Six or more flights were grounded for about an hour by a UFO near Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou, China on July 7th. Back when I first wrote about it I said, “It looks like a blimp to me.”
Various explanations have been proposed for similar sightings, including optical illusions and misidentified military tests. Despite ongoing interest and speculation regarding UFOs in China, no conclusive evidence has emerged to explain these events definitively as of 2024.
UFOs shut down an airport in China’s Zhejiang province and turned heads in a major city, but a renowned space expert says the strange lights in the night sky will likely turn out to be more identifiable flying objects.
Just days after the Xiaoshan Airport grounded flights due to bizarre lights, China’s state-controlled news agency published photographs of a mysterious “diamond-shaped” object sighted over Chongqing, sparking speculation about extraterrestrial visitors.
However UFO skeptic and space flight expert James Oberg told AOL News in an exclusive interview that he has a more terrestrial explanation — military testing.”I’m not surprised because of the level of confusion. In China, they do seem to have a lot of openness about what people see — they’re not always so open about the explanations, but that’s not because the UFOs are interplanetary,” Oberg told AOL News….
Shortly after the July 7 incident over the Xiaoshan Airport, spokesman Ruan Zhouchang confirmed to the media that “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 p.m. to 9:41 p.m. …
via China UFOs: Space Expert James Oberg Says Don’t Jump to Conclusions.
An unidentified flying object (UFO) forced Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China to cease operations on July 7. A flight crew preparing for descent first detected the object around 8:40 p.m. and notified the air traffic control department. Aviation authorities responded within minutes, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi. … Fueling speculations further, Hangzhou residents released photos, taken in the afternoon before the delays, of a hovering object bathed in golden light and exhibiting a comet-like tail. Less than an hour before the Xiaoshan airport shut down, residents said they also saw a flying object emitting red and white rays of light.Resident Ma Shijun was taking a nighttime stroll with his wife when he saw the object.
“I felt a beam of light over my head. Looking up, I saw a streak of bright, white light flying across the sky, so I picked up the camera and took the photo. The time was 8:26 p.m. However, whether the object was a plane, or whether it was Xiaoshan Airport’s UFO, I don’t have a clear answer,” Ma told the Xinhua news agency.
The photos taken by Hangzhou residents may be unrelated to the UFO that shut down Xiaoshan Airport. According to Hangzhou meteorological authorities, residents in the afternoon probably saw light reflecting off of an airplane. – abcnews
Link includes video, news report of the event.
“An unidentified flying object (UFO) disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang’s provincial capital Hangzhou late on Wednesday [July 7], the municipal government said on Thursday. Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm, and some flights were rerouted”
A source with knowledge of the matter, however, told China Daily on Thursday that authorities had learned what the UFO was after an investigation. But it was not the proper time to publicly disclose the information because there was a military connection, he said, adding that an official explanation is expected to be given on Friday.”
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.”
I’m still looking for descriptions of the object’s behavior. Did it float in place? Take off at high speed? Disappear? Change shape?
Interesting images. Here’s a great long video from WeAreAllOne on YouTube.
This one was claimed to be a Chinese military experiment. Perhaps it was. Why would they fly over a civilian airport though? Strange.
When I was out at the Little A’Lee’Inn not long ago I saw a man named Nick Pope being interviewed. He is well known in UFO circles and his Wikipedia page explains that he was in charge of examining UFO cases in the UK. In the video below, he says people should take UFOs seriously because governments do. While he says some things probably are craft from other countries, and so on, he says we need to keep an open mind. He says it will likely take Congressional hearings to get to the bottom of all of this and he’d like to see them happen.
Are some unidentified objects a threat to commercial aviation? Nick Pope says there are dozens of cases of near misses and in some cases pilots have had to take evasive action to avoid a collision.
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This a serious and important event.
How many times can you remember an airport closing down on a summer day? I can’t remember many. At this airport 6 flights were grounded and 12 flights rerouted to nearby airports. The event affected more than 1,000 passengers.
The link Xeno has posted: “China UFOs: Space Expert James Oberg Says Don‚Äôt Jump to Conclusions” is an article by Lee Speigel with 3 videos. Only the 2nd one is worth your while.
The first one is the one Xeno posted here: “amazing UFO China July 2010,” but only the object at 0.36 to 0.47, was seen and photographed at the airport in Hangzhou, China on July 7th. The others were derived from the site immediately below, which explains in Chinese that the photos are from numerous places and times:
http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/201007/news-gb2312-1123258.html
The third one, I don’t know anything about.
The second video at Lee Speigel site is a news story about the event. As are the two below:
In Chinese
UFO IN CHINA JULY 2010 MORE NEWS AND VIDEO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSKkS2WlX9I
In English
More on China UFO (in English, CCTV report) @ Xiaoshan airport, Hangzhou – incl observers PIX + VDO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntb0brXp5tA
You may compare and see the similarities.
It is incredible how quick and how much disinformation is published about this single event. For example, we’re told from yahoo.com that a “probe” (mind you, the choice of words is important – as in “alien probe” -) was conducted and concluded by July 15th. This appeared on the same web page that has this news flash: ‚ÄúPug Says ‚ÄòBatman‚Äô When it Barks.‚Äù Should I say more?
http://news.yahoo.com/video/odd-15749658/20894002
Then, Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic, “A UFO Over China?! Well, No.” (Jul 19, 2010) says it wasn’t even China, where the event took place. He was referring to a video that was published by a Fox News affiliate from Kazakhstan!
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/07/a-ufo-over-china-well-no/60044/
And, we have the article and videos from Lee Speigel.
One must comment about the article, “Space Expert: China UFOs Likely From This World” by Lee Speigel. He refers to James Oberg as “renowned space expert,” a “space flight expert,” “who is the NBC News space consultant” and “is widely regarded as a world [sic] authority on the Russian and Chinese space programs,” [more than the Russians and Chinese themselves? Unless, of course, according to the geographers at NBC, Russia and China is not part of the(ir) “world.”]. We are also told Oberg “has written 10 books on all aspects of space flight,” and he “lectures on space safety, (and the principle of spaceflight safety as it applies to aviation) given to the National Transportation Safety Board.” Furthermore, although Oberg is a “UFO skeptic,” he is “an open-minded skeptic.” Wow, after all that, I guess when this guy talks about the UFO at the Chinese airport on July 7th, 2010, it’s must be like hearing the voice of God, well … at least for Lee Speigel.
As a side note, Oberg is of the opinion that “pilots might not be the best UFO eyewitnesses. One of the dirty little secrets of UFO witnessing,” says Oberg, “is that pilots are, as a category, among the worst identifiers of celestial objects,” which is, according Oberg, “in their own words.” (The results of a survey? We aren’t told, but Oberg speaks and we should adhere to what he says?) But, Oberg goes on, “The reason for [pilots being such poor observers of celestial objects] is that pilots, to fly safely, have to interpret visual stimuli as dangerous so they can react quickly, rather than sit there and speculate what the light might be.” I ask you, dear reader, does this make sense? Can we trust a pilot to avoid a mid-air collision if a pilot is such a poor identifier of celestial flying objects? Of course, we can. As Oberg, himself, observes, “to fly safely, [pilots] have to interpret visual stimuli as dangerous so they can react quickly.” They must interpret a whether a nearby or approaching, which makes a great deal of difference, object is another plane, a flock of birds or the planet Venus.
The article does refer to the second video, however: the Xiaoshan Airport spokesman “Ruan Zhouchang confirmed to the media that ‘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 p.m. to 9:41 p.m. … I heard that some of the passengers whose flights just landed saw the object, which appeared as glowing lights. It was not a normal civil aviation flight. What it actually was, no one knows,’ Zhouchang said.”
All this directly from the second video at Speigel’s site: “Bon, Beyond Headlines,” attached to the article. Video also says, which is not included in the article, that “air traffic controllers” also reported the UFO in the sky. So, I guess, Oberg comments checks whatever air traffic controllers say, also? The video also says that the “authorities” are also concerned.
This is a repost of a comment I got on my blog after posting this exact same story…
“The first three photos are long exposures of helicoptors ‚Äî and all were online before the airport closure, so they cannot be of that UFO.
http://forgetomori.com/2010/ufos/ufo-over-hangzhou-china-a-long-expos/ “
Thanks Rob. I’m having trouble seeing how light from a search light could be staccato in the same photo where reflected light from the craft is a solid blur. … unless the search light was a strobe light… or they were taken with a video camera … It looks like separate beams of light, but the object emitting the light(s) looks like one solid object. I guess I’ll have to do some tests.
Photo 5 here does show some blurred car headlights in the same photo as the UFO. That’s pretty convincing.
Rob Rimes, thank for the information at your site. However, …
You connected the third video at Lee Speigel’s site to what Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic (Jul 19, 2010) referred to in his piece (“A UFO Over China?! Well, No”) which, in turn, referred, to a video from a Fox News affiliate. The object filmed was over Kazakhstan, which has nothing to do with “a UFO over China.”
But, I must say, that the example you and others have used to show a time-lapse image of an airplane in flight, which was caught on a cam facing the US capitol, should not have occurred. Please note, that this supposed airplane was flying in restricted air space and should not have been there. One would think such an event would have reached the news media, but at the time, as I recollect, there was no mention of a plane flying over restricted air space of the US capital.
It seems to make sense, however, that a time lapse photo of a plane in flight would give an image as the object flying over Washington D.C., but better examples would be appreciated.
Why do you refer to James Oberg in your piece? He is, I found out, a foremost UFO skeptic, if outright debunker!
After Lee Speigel exalted the supposed achievements Oberg, I thought he, at least, had scientific credentials. But, I was duped. He is a Air Force veteran, journalist/historian, who worked with NASA (wiki). When Speigel wrote, he is “an open-minded skeptic,” I was led astray. Oberg has long history of debunking:
James Oberg, Astronaut “UFO” Sightings, Journal of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Volume III, No.1, Fall 1978
His is notorious skeptic of sightings by astronauts and others, including J. Allen Hynek.
Robert Hastings, who recently published (2008) “UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary
Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites,” a work that began in the 1970s to culminate in a 600 page book with over 80 interviews with military officers and others tells how he duped: “Reporter duped by UFO Debunkers” In that article he says point blank that James Oberg is “one of CSICOP‚Äôs leading UFO debunkers.”
http://www.ufohastings.com/images/ABQ%20Journal%20Formal%20Retort.pdf.
A good investigation doesn’t refer to the likes of Oberg and his ilk. By, doing so you work is placed, unfortunately, into the ever increasing file of disinformation about the event. Sorry.
A serious correction: about Robert Hastings, it should read: “… and others, tells he WAS duped: “Reporter duped by UFO debunkers.” (Not how he duped anyone – that’s the job of debunkers.) Sorry, again
Thanks Ann, good updates. I’d like to read as many first hand accounts as there are about this sighting.
There is so much disinformation about this event. A lot of bloggers, and others, including the Christian Science Monitor, refer to the ABC news report, despite its limitations.
The event was mentioned in the Los Angeles Times (via South Florida Sun-Sentinel). The news item gets about 5 sentences, the 5th being: “An unknown source told China Daily the UFO may have been military-related.” And, it includes the video of the object over Kazakhstan! Fine work!
At People’s Daily Online, Wang Hanlu writes that there were “8 UFO sightings occur[ing] in China with[in] a month” (July 23, 2010). This includes the sighting at Hangzhou. This 4 sentence article has the last sentence reading: “However, experts on UFOs believe the recent UFO sightings are not related to aliens but everyday object like kites and planes.” Another piece of fine work!
There is one article I can’t get, but wish I could read:
“CNN, ABC, UFOs and other unexplained phenomena” from the Tucson Citizen,
by Cherlyn Gardner Strong (Jul.21, 2010)
http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2010/07/21/cnn-abc-ufos-and-other-unexplained-phenomena/
It may talk about the disinformation.
But, at Real UFOs, we have a video from airline passenger. It’s a good video and appears authentic, but one can’t tell if it was indeed the one over the said airport. The video: “NEW REAL UFO over China sighting filmed by Air …” is an from an airline. It shows city lights below and as it scans up four white lights appear. One bright light and three smaller, dimmer lights above it. They don’t appear to form an outline of an object, necessarily, although together they may form a diamond shaped object. But, one of smaller dimmer lights appears to move independently and spinning rapidly.
http://www.realufos.net/2010/07/new-photo-of-that-ufo-over-china.html
Bill Chalker, theozfiles.blogspot.com, has been following the events after sighting at the Chinese airport: “Chinese Airport UFO incident is not an ‘Alien Flying Saucer’ according to combined Beijing Shanghai UFO investigation” (July 24, 2010)
He is also “rather surprised by the extent of the worldwide coverage given to the July 7 2010 Hangzhou Xiaoshan airport ‘UFO’ shutdown incident. So much inaccurate reporting and speculation on this story has spawned spurious links, fake photos and poorly devised ‘explanations.'”
As it turns a Mr. Ma took the photo which was claimed have been the unknown object seen at the airport the day it was closed. It appears, however, the photo is probably only a time-lapsed photo of a conventional aircraft, on the night of the airport closing.
http://www.guanggou.net/?p=3037
And, this photo may have nothing to do with the closing of the airport.
Chalker found out that the Beijing UFO Research Organisation and the Shanghai UFO Research group did a joint investigation on July 14 and 15. And, on July 24 concluded “there was no evidence that the incident was caused by an alien UFO or flying saucer.” But, how they came that conclusion, however preposterous it might seem to the skeptic, isn’t clear. I suppose no one told the researchers they saw little green men.
We already have news reports interviewing an official spokesman from the airport who said, pilots, airline passengers and air traffic controllers saw an unknown object, which by definition, is a UFO. While the debunker, James Oberg, can so easily dismiss the observational acuity of pilots, it would be more difficult to dismiss the same in air traffic controllers.
It seems to me the job of the investigative team is to find out what the unknown object was, if possible. This is no slight issue: the unknown was visible enough to enough people to shut down an airport.
Chalker goes on to say that this investigation found that sighting was not confirmed on radar screens, but “there were ‘blind spots’ in the airport radar observations, and therefore private, military aircraft and other activities could not be ruled out as the source of the events that lead to the airport shutdown.”
A curious statement. A “blind spot” may not be related to an unknown object, as in “alien” craft, but it may be related to unknown “military aircraft.”
Apparently this investigation didn’t work with or interview the eyewitnesses of the unknown object: pilots, airline passengers and air traffic controllers.
http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2010/07/chinese-airport-ufo-incident-is-not.html
Thanks for following this and for the report Ann. Interesting details. Any descriptions available of what was seen?
Bill Chalker’s report (theozfiles, above) is confirmed by Peoples Daily (July 26, 2010), which also said the investigators concluded “No evidence shows that the UFO is associated with an extraterrestrial flying saucer, …” which means, I guess, no little green men kicked the investigators in the shins and yelled, “hey, we’re down here!” So, apparently, this lack of evidence is evidence it wasn’t “an extraterrestrial flying saucer.” However, radar “blind spots,” for this investigative team, meant the UFO may have been unknown flying military craft.
The importance of this event may be understood by the fact that the airport that was shutdown is Xiaoshan International, a major international airport in China, with direct flights to Amsterdam, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore and regional routes to Hong Kong and Macau. The airport services the city of Hangzhou, one of China’s largest cities and a major growing industrial center. Xiaoshan International is no minor rural wind-sock flying, dirt-road run-way by any stretch of the imagination.
So, why would a military craft, from whatever country, cause a most unique event and interfere with the air traffic of a major international airport to the extent of causing it to shutdown?
The video footage (above) that looks like a rocket is a rocket. It was a Russian Soyuz rocket videotaped over the capital city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the 30th of June, 2010, soon after it lifted off from the Central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was carrying supplies for the International Space Station. This information is from ufo-blogger.
Chinese Xiaoshan Airport UFO Incident Hit By Disinformation
http://www.ufo-blogger.com/2010/07/china-airport-ufo-footage.html
Ok, so that was about a week before the airport shutdown. What made the event even more confusing is that a week after the airport sighting there was another sighting on July 14th in Chongqing, according to Cherlyn Gardner Strong at the Tuscon Citizen.
CNN, ABC, UFOs and other unexplained phenomena
by Cherlyn Gardner Strong on Jul.21, 2010
http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2010/07/21/cnn-abc-ufos-and-other-unexplained-phenomena/
There is some internet consensus that the following was filmed over the airport the afternoon/evening it was shutdown:
China UFO Orignal Footage Filmed Over Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport Surfaced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_SHNrlUg8
Here’s the latest, a video of the UFO.
It’s actually a small segment of the news video above, but, about which none of the news commentators gave much interest.
Hangzhou UFO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4BRbXvYx8
Cherlyn Gardner Strong, who really keeps abreast on news topics, relates a report from the China Daily in The Tucson Citizen: “China offers explanation about UFO experts‚Äô conclusion: ‚Äòit was just a plane‚Äô” (Aug. 05, 2010)
It was not just a “plane,” but a billionaire’s plane. Apparently, in life in China is such that a billionaire can do just about anything that he (I don’t think there’s any she-billionaires) pleases. That includes flying a plane any where and whenever, with or without regard to regulations or laws.
Oh, they’re fined and sometimes their planes are confiscated, but it doesn’t mean much if the fines are trivial or if the billionaire owns more than one plane.
But, Strong concludes her article saying,
“If airports in China are regularly inconvenienced by flying billionaires, then why would Xiaoshan airport officials and the Chinese media deem the object a ‚ÄòUFO‚Äô? Additionally, why would it take a team of UFO experts to finally identify the object that shut down an entire airport as a private plane?”
http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2010/08/05/china-offers-explanation-about-ufo-experts-conclusion-it-was-just-a-plane/
Great link and info, Ann. I’m thinking that if I was a flying billionaire, I’d pay someone to build me something fast and safe that looked like a UFO. I suspect that there are a number of custom flying machines that make it into the UFO files.
Yeah, I suppose a rich guy could build a UFO-like flying machine, but if he were to do that, it seems to me, he more than likely try to capitalize on the idea and we would have heard something about it. Are there good human-made flying machines that look like UFOs? I know there has been a lot experimental trials and the like, but were there ones that were relatively safe, as in stable while in flight?
Another tidbit about the uniqueness of this event in China, which seems to contradict Strong’s report, is that “It was the first time an airport in China has been shut down on such short notice due to a UFO, said a staff member with the CAAC [Civil Aviation Administration of China] of East China, who declined to be named.” If billionaires do cause air traffic havoc in China, as Strong indicates, it was not as in this case. This source doesn’t say, however, it was the first time an airport was shutdown by a UFO in China. But, “even a fire balloon needs to get the authority’s permission before lifting off.”
Source: Extraordinary UFO sighting over China on July 2010:
http://www.savevid.com/video/extraordinary-ufo-sighting-over-china-on-july-2010.html
This is the Peoples’ Daily (August 11, 2010) and its the best report so far. Although it was described by one investigator as a “plane,” other investigations describe it as a special kind of flying craft (i.e. a UFO?):
“After a month of research, an expert told reporters that a UFO spotted in Hangzhou on July 7 might be a special purpose aircraft, such as a plane [sic], … According to Wang Sichao, a researcher from the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the UFO that encroached on the airspace of Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou flew at a height of one kilometer from the ground. It might be some special aircraft, such as a plane, or some rapid, noiseless or low-noise aircraft, reported by Chinanews.com.cn. … [On July 7th] Around 8:40 p.m., crew members on two flights that were about to land found a UFO was hovering in the air, and they notified the air traffic control center. A few minutes later, air control ordered all flights to stop taking off and those flights that were heading to Xiaoshan airport were instructed to fly to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi to land. A total of 18 flights were affected this time. Wang also believes that the UFO was unlikely to be some typical domestic plane or overseas plane. Also, it could not be cruise missile or rocket fragments.”
Expert: UFO in Hangzhou might be special aircraft
16:33, August 11, 2010
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/90872/7101386.html
If I may, I’d like to summarize what we know thus far, given the results of the investigation from the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences:
On July 7th, around 8:40 p.m., the crew members on two separate flights notified the authorities of the Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou that, as they were about to land, they saw a UFO was hovering at a height of one kilometer (0.6 mile or about 3,000 ft) from the ground. This is a dangerously low for a craft to be hovering above a busy international airport. Although, according to a previous investigative report by the Beijing UFO Research Organization and the Shanghai UFO Research group, the object was not detected on radar, at the time the airport’s radar had “blind spots,” meaning whatever was in those blind spots, whether a plane or UFO, could not have been detected by radar anyway. Nonetheless, according to an airport spokesman (interviewed in the video above, “More on China UFO [in English, CCTV report]…” ), air traffic controllers did see the object, as well as passengers on the airlines. Although the airline crews said it was “hovering,” and apparently it was noiseless or nearly so, the Purple Mt. report says it was “rapid,” perhaps indicating at some point the object stopped hovering and moved quickly. The same investigative team discounts the object having been a conventional aircraft, or a “cruise missile or rocket fragments,” presumably meaning it was not a known rocket or space craft.
The unknown object that correlates with the Purple Mt. report appears to be depicted in the 17 second video “Hangzhou UFO” (at 0:08 – 0:10 and again at 0:14 – 0:16). It is a segment of early Chinese news reports (“UFO IN CHINA JULY 2010 MORE NEWS AND VIDEO!” at 0:10-0:11, 1:24-1:28, and 1:58-1:59, also above; it is also seen in the video: “More on China UFO [in English, CCTV report]…”), although the news reports, oddly enough, did not refer to it as the UFO that was seen at the airport. The object in the videos appears to be hovering as a airline flies past, but that’s only a guess. It is difficult to tell as the video is shaky. It’s not much of a video, but the object appears oval-shaped and not uniformly colored or shaded, having a lit or lighter central region or streak.
There’s another photo of a high flying craft taken at the time above the airport. But, it is too high and rather unremarkable as airline or jet changing directions. And, it doesn’t fit with low hovering object reported by Purple Mt.’s study.
What is most remarkable about this incident is not so much that it was a UFO, after all, sightings of UFOs are everywhere, all the time, it seems, but the incredible amount of disinformation. The event was confused with a Russian space rocket that was launched before July 7th as well as with other sightings and photos, including a time-lapse photo of a conventional craft, most of which occurred at different places and times. It was almost as if members of the media knew that the closing of a busy international airport is a major event and it had to explained quickly, however which way, unfortunately for us. No one, it seems, was willing to admit that they merely didn’t know what it was, that is, an “unknown flying object.”
Ok, so I’m tiring of commenting on this single event. But, I must add this:
The photo that was taken on the evening that a UFO was sighted above the airport by a Mr. Ma, was judged to be a time-lapse event of a conventional aircraft by most commentators. The flashing lights on a conventional plane as flies past, it was frequently mentioned, would make an image that would appear as craft with illuminated “portholes” or “windows.”
However, consider the infrared photo of an unknown over Texas recently (link to news article and video below).
Near Ft. Worth a hunting enthusiast set up an infrared camera to capture night time game on film. And, she caught an image of stationary, as if hovering UFO with multiple lights. The image is not far removed from that taken by Mr. Ma.
So, perhaps there is more to Mr. Ma’s photo than mere conventional craft. Maybe?
Did hunter’s infrared camera capture images of UFO?
August 26, 2010
LA Times blog
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2010/08/hunters-infrared-camera-ufo.html
What Oberg mean by pilots having to assume any pattern they see is a danger. Is that, if they see a dark, shrouded moving object coming closer, they have to assume it’s solid, and dangerous, and something to be avoided. If they’re wrong, and it’s just, say a wisp of storm cloud, then no harm done, but if it turns out to be a threat, which could run from anything solid to another aircraft, spacecraft, whatever, then they fly right into it and kill everyone onboard. They have to interpret all meaningful patterns as threats. It’s this aspect of the psychology of pilots which would cause them to interpret patterns in the noise as UFOs, possibly among the greatest technological, and airborne, threat that a pilot imagine.
Paul J. Nelson, if “pilots having to assume any pattern they see is a danger … and something to be avoided”, more often than not the passengers of their planes are in for a hell of a bumpy ride.
No, Oberg, I feel is wrong, having some experience in the field. I feel pilots are in fact one of the best observers of aerial phenomena. Oberg is merely a skeptic, if not debunker, that puts on with a friendly and presumably “rational,” if not “scientific,” face for the media.
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By the way, as for post #15, it’s wrong. As it turned out the object photographed was lights of the camera, not a UFO.
Well, here I am again, your correspondent in China. And, guess what? Another airport in China has been closed by a UFO. This time in Mongolia. And, as last time there are no official explanations are delayed.
UFO witnessed in Baotou, Inner Mongolia
Peoples Daily, September 13, 2010
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/7138663.html