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July 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 31/07/2010 10:52 AM Page 18 18 UFOs Over China: Invasion or Economic UFOs Over China: Alien air quality is the worst in the world, and the secret," said Borghezio in an exclusive e-mail Invasion or Economic lower Yangtze delta -- where Hangzhou is interview with AOL News. Borghezio, 63, penned a June 14 located -- is among the regions that have been Indicator? specifically cited for airborne particulates. Add declaration titled "On the Declassification of Documentation on UFOs," in which he calls for in the horrific dust storms that China had earlier this year, and the effect is an air pollution index the establishment of a European UFO By BRUCE WATSON that is literally off the charts. While dust in the commission. "Many members of the scientific air wouldn't cause UFOs, it could exaggerate, community have been looking into the issue of July 20 2010: In the past two weeks, blur, or refract commonly-occurring light, UFOs and have denounced the systematic China has had two major UFO sightings. The creating images that look like light beams and covering up of information on the subject," the first, on July 7, was basically a glowing streak glowing spheres. declaration says. in the sky near Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou, a He's starting to get some positive city outside Shanghai. In the interests of Blame China's Space Program feedback from his EU colleagues. passenger safety, airport authorities shut down "About 30 members of the European operations for an hour, and eighteen planes were Another contributing factor could be the Parliament -- especially from Eastern Europe -- delayed. psychological impact of a space program. It's have signed my declaration, and it means they Eight days later, on July 15, another worth noting, for example, that UFO sightings agree with me," he said. UFO appeared in Chongqing, a city in eastern in America spiked between 1965 and 1975, Borghezio, a member of the European China. Described as "four lantern-like objects when the U.S. space program was at its height. Parliament since 2001, has been referred to as forming a diamond shape," the lights "hovered While this could be coincidental, it seems likely an extremist at times. In 2005, he was found over the city's Shaping Park for over an hour." that, as more and more Americans cast their guilty of arson after setting fire to the Whether or not China has recently become a eyes heavenward, many of them saw things that belongings of some immigrants who were destination spot for space travelers, its recent they couldn't explain. sleeping under a bridge in the town of Turin, spate of unexplained celestial phenomena may China has had a space program for Italy. say a great deal about its emerging place in the decades, but it only recently kicked into Lately, he's grabbed headlines in his world -- and its plans for the future. overdrive. In 2003, the country launched its first UFO quest and says he's sure that many manned spaceflight, a 21-hour orbit of the earth. countries have kept UFO-related information China's Military in Space? Four years later, it successfully conducted its hidden from the public. first unmanned orbit of the moon, and it plans to "Yes, I know that some of them have Several prosaic explanations quickly conduct a manned landing by 2022. According secret UFO files," he said. emerged for the sightings, including to some estimates, they could get there by 2017. Borghezio won't offer any personal suggestions that the U.S. was testing bomber China isn't the only Asian country with explanation for UFOs, whether they turn out to aircraft routes into China or the Russian military an aggressive space program. For the past few be alien spacecraft, misidentified conventional had deployed a new satellite. But the most years, pundits around the globe have noted that aircraft or normal astronomical objects -- but he common explanation was that the People's India and China are facing off in what might be still feels there's something mysterious about Liberation Army (PLA), China's military, was a replay of the U.S./USSR space race of the the subject. testing a new aircraft or missile. Admittedly, the 1960's. In 2008, India's Chandrayaan-1 probe "I do not embrace any one thesis," he decision to launch a weapon in range of an landed on the moon, and the south Asian said. "I await the results of scientific studies airport seems out of character for the secretive behemoth now has its sights set on Mars. which will be noted only after all the UFO files Chinese government, but the PLA's public The India connection further cements are declassified." stance has become increasingly aggressive over the space program/UFO link. Like its neighbor The Italian politician says he is pursuing the past year, and the public display of a new, to the east, India is also experiencing a spike in the issue to encourage governmental impressive technology could be an effective unidentified space phenomena: in the past five transparency. "Citizens must know everything way to demonstrate China's rising military years, it has had five major clusters of UFO that concerns them directly, without strength. sightings. In fact, if UFOs are any measure of a censorship." While China's UFO sightings are nation's potential for space exploration, India EU members have until Oct. 14 to sign exciting in their own right, they may also has a very bright future: with 60% more Borghezio's disclosure declaration. But with the indicate a change in the Middle Kingdom's sightings than China, it appears that the South various domestic and national problems facing status in the world. For decades, the U.S. has Asian behemoth is far ahead in at least one the EU, will UFOs be high on the agenda? been the destination of choice for unidentified aspect of the space race. [] "I'm sure that a reason of freedom and flying objects, with the number of sightings far transparency should move the interest of the outstripping those of other countries. Italian Politician Claims leaders to whom I address this question: 'What Since1940, in fact, there have been 56 clusters EU Is Hiding 'Secret UFO do you know about the reasons regarding the of sightings in America. By comparison, China classified status of everything related to has had only four -- two of which occurred Files' UFOs?'" within the past two weeks. Borghezio says his fight for disclosure AOL News isn't related to a personal UFO encounter. China's Industry and UFOs "No, I have never seen a UFO, but I How close is the European Union to have knowledge of highly credible witnesses There are several terrestrial explanations releasing its top secret UFO files to the rest of [civilian and military pilots], but it's not for UFOs. Two of the main studies on the world? Well, in a few months we may available because it's been secreted," he said. unidentified flying objects -- the U.S. Air finally learn if the truth is out there. So, as it's been for decades, those Force's project Blue Book and the work of Alan That is, of course, if such files exist, as seeking conclusive information on UFOs are Hendry -- determined that most UFO sightings one lawmaker insists they do. still playing a gigantic waiting game: waiting were easily explained. Many alleged UFO Last month, AOL News reported on how for the EU to make a move; waiting for the sightings were actually man-made aircraft. Mario Borghezio, leader of the ultra- United Nations to make a move -- and, of Other causes included dust, windblown debris, conservative Italian Northern League party, has course, waiting for the alleged otherworldly and light pollution, all of which could be the urged the 27-member EU governments to visitors to make a move. After all, aren't "they" result of industrial activity. publicly release any information they might the key to this whole thing? [] In 2009, China had 11% industrial have on UFOs. The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show growth and, according to China Online Daily, "The EU member states, under the with the country is working to achieve an equivalent principle of transparency, have a duty to make growth rate this year. Such impressive public and available to all scientific data on Rob McConnell economic development comes at a cost: China's UFOs which, today, are partially or wholly www.xzoneradiotv.com