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July 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 31/07/2010 10:52 AM Page 16 16 Hangzhou’s UFO NOT Alien Hangzhou's UFO was definitely not aliens, experts say Shanghaiist On Wednesday, Hangzhou's Xiaoshan airport was shut down for about an hour while airport authorities scrambled to figure out what unidentified flying contraption was hovering on their radars. Yep, a UFO closed down the Hangzhou airport. According to a story that first appeared in Zhejiang Online, the UFO showed up on the airport's radar a little past 8:30pm. Suddenly, airport personnel saw a "shining light" in the air, later confirmed by passengers that were flying at the time. Out of flight safety considerations, the airport suspended service from 8:41pm onwards and began an extensive aerial search. About an hour later, after not finding anything, they resumed service. The 56 minutes total of "no String Of UFOs Reported analysis on a blog called "Arms Control Wonk." fly" time delayed 18 flights in total - about In the analysis, Forden used scientific 2,000 passengers were stranded for a couple Over China theories to examine the images of the flying hours as Xiaoshan sorted through the jam. object that he felt were not created with Though airport spokesmen said the UFO 2 Sightings Reported In Photoshop. was only visible to radars at the airport, several Past 2 Weeks; Authorities "It seems to me that a DF-21 (missile) people around Hangzhou said they witnessed "a launch somewhere near Jiuquan and aimed at a glowing object hovering in the afternoon sky Investigating point somewhere in the eastern Gobi desert is and moving weirdly." One man managed to KCCI 8 Des Moines the most likely cause of this 'UFO'", Forden snap a picture of it before it suddenly wrote. disappeared. Chinese officials have been looking into So what was it? Some have theorized it HONG KONG -Authorities are the reports about UFOs. They have said they was a private jet (Hangzhou serves as an easy investigating after two UFO sightings were were trying to determine whether the objects tourist destination to rich folks from Zhejiang reported in China in the past two weeks. were private or military aircraft, rocket flares, and Jiangsu), others say it was a piece of rocket According to state media, the first took reflection in the sky or something else. debris, and at least one official has said it has a place over an airport in eastern China. The first sighting occurred at "military connection" - which is why more People reported seeing unusual Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Airport, in the eastern details of the incident can not be divulged. twinkling lights late in the evening above the part of the country, according to the state- terminal. Some flights were canceled or re- routed. controlled Xinhua news agency. UPDATE: Eighteen flights were delayed or Soon after, the Shanghai Daily News rerouted and operations shut down after reported a sighting over the city of Chongqing. Remember that UFO in nearby twinkling lights were spotted above the terminal Hangzhou that shut down the city's airport for a Witnesses said they saw four lantern- around 9 p.m. July 7, the agency said. couple of hours? The authorities have like objects form a diamond shape, hover and According to Xinhua, speculation has centered investigated and they can say with absolute fly out of sight. on a private aircraft. The state-run China Daily certainty that the UFO was not flown by aliens. Images of the UFOs have popped up quoted a source saying the object had a military According to an expert team of UFO everywhere online, and one MIT weapons connection. investigators from Beijing and Shanghai, the analyst said the objects could depict the launch Purported photos of the unworldly pictures that Hangzhou residents captured of the of a Chinese ballistic missile. object have appeared online, on YouTube and UFO show, very obviously, the anti-collision Others have speculated they could be on television news shows. and landing lights on regular human-flown rocket flares or private aircraft. Meanwhile, The Shanghai Daily planes. However, they also admitted that the reported a UFO appeared above the city of UFO photographed was different from the UFO UFOs over China? Not Chongqing a day later. that Hangzhou airport officials reported. quite, analyst says "Because the crew witnessed the UFO, Could mysterious 3D crop circle there is no specific location and other relevant CNN News be UFO message? data, so it was impossible to confirm that Mr. Ma (the resident) snapped the photos of the (CNN) -- Those probably were not same one. How many people saw these two UFOs that hovered over China recently, a A huge 3D crop circle has incredibly UFOs is also hard to say, so far nobody has Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyst appeared in a field of wheat at Clay Hill, come up to claim that they've seen it." said. Warminster, UK. Who created the 200 foot Unfortunately, besides saying that Mr. The images of the UFOs have caused design remains a mystery, reports The Daily Ma's pictures and the UFO seen by those at the quite a stir in China and on blogs around the Telegraph. The area is known as Britain’s airport aren't the same, the experts offered no world. UFO capital after repeated sightings of flying other explanation. Apparently, confirming that it But many of the images appear to be saucers and numerous crop circle appearances wasn't aliens was enough for them. faked with the software program Photoshop and over the past few decades. However, those Incidentally, Hangzhou's UFO is part of the ones that were not faked seem to depict the hoping to unravel the hidden meaning in the eight UFO sightings around China in the last launch of a Chinese ballistic missile, said mysterious circle are likely to be disappointed. month. While some have been identified, such Geoffrey Forden, an MIT weapons analyst. Over a decade ago pranksters Doug Bower and as a lit kite in Sichuan and a plane's exhaust in Forden, who also specializes in Russian Dave Chorley confessed to creating 200 crop Guangdong, the other six are still a mystery. 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