BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhaunet) — The unidentified flying object that disrupted air traffic in Hangzhou for an hour on Wednesday remains, well, unidentified. “No conclusion has yet been drawn,” Wang Jian, head of air traffic control with the Zhejiang branch of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), was quoted by Xinhua News Agency as saying. Some media have speculated the UFO might be a private aircraft, based on the increasing number of privately-owned aircraft in Zhejiang province. But Wang said the possibility it was a private plane was “just a guess.” A source with knowledge of the matter, however, told China Daily earlier that the object had a military connection. A staff member at Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou said a twinkling object was first spotted over the city’s sky around 8:30 pm on Wednesday. However, the object did not show up on the airport’s radar. Xiaoshan Airport was then closed at 8:45 pm over security concerns, and only resumed operation at 9:41 pm. A dozen inbound flights were diverted to nearby airports and six outbound flights were delayed for three to four hours. According to an estimate by Shanghai-based Evening News, more than 2000 passengers were affected. 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 of East China, who declined to be named. “We should first find out how the owner got the approval to fly the object,” said the staff member, adding “even a …
July 15, 2010 — Beijing UFO Research Association Secretary-General Zhou Xiaoqiang, Beijing Planetarium curator Zhu Jin, and Shanghai UFO Research Center chairman Wu Jialu will fly to Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport to investigate the reported UFO incident which occurred there on July 7th. A flight crew preparing for descent first noticed the object around 8:40 pm and notified air traffic control. Aviation authorities responded within minutes, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi. In all, 18 flights were affected. Normal operations resumed an hour later. Beijing UFO Research Association www.bjufo.com Beijing Planetarium http Shanghai UFO Research Center hrufo.com
August 23, 2010 – Last month, Technorati relayed reports of two mass UFO sightings that took place in China. On July 7, Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou rerouted traffic for several hours after detecting a UFO
According to reports in the Legal Evening Newspaper, citizens in Xinjiang, Hunan, Hangzhou and Chongqing saw UFOs one after another in the last month. Domestic media agencies have reported at least eight UFO sightings since June 30, …
The images of the UFOs have caused quite a stir in China and on blogs around the world are fake according to Geoffrey Forden, an MIT weapons analyst. The first sighting occurred at Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan Airport, in the eastern part…
In the past two weeks, China has had two major UFO sightings . The first, on July 7, was basically a glowing streak in the sky near Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou, a city outside Shanghai
BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhaunet) — The unidentified flying object that disrupted air traffic in Hangzhou for an hour on Wednesday remains, well, unidentified. “No conclusion has yet been drawn,” Wang Jian, head of air traffic control with the Zhejiang branch of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), was quoted by Xinhua News Agency as saying. Some media have speculated the UFO might be a private aircraft, based on the increasing number of privately-owned aircraft in Zhejiang province. But Wang said the possibility it was a private plane was “just a guess.” A source with knowledge of the matter, however, told China Daily earlier that the object had a military connection. A staff member at Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou said a twinkling object was first spotted over the city’s sky around 8:30 pm on Wednesday. However, the object did not show up on the airport’s radar. Xiaoshan Airport was then closed at 8:45 pm over security concerns, and only resumed operation at 9:41 pm. A dozen inbound flights were diverted to nearby airports and six outbound flights were delayed for three to four hours. According to an estimate by Shanghai-based Evening News, more than 2000 passengers were affected. 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 of East China, who declined to be named. “We should first find out how the owner got the approval to fly the object,” said the staff member, adding “even a …
