UFO Shuts Down
Chinese Airport
Date: July 7, 2010
Location: Hangzhou, China
In the summer of 2010, an unidentified object was seen hovering above Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China. Unlike American authorities, who did not take the O’Hare airport UFO sighting seriously, the Chinese aviation authorities shut down the entire airport.
On July 7, 2010, at around 20:40, air traffic control operators at the Xiaoshan Airport were informed by the flight crew of a plane about to make its landing that an unidentified object was in the sky, hovering above the airport. After the sighting was confirmed by air traffic control operators, the authorities instructed all flights to be grounded, and those flights that were about to take off were delayed. They also diverted all incoming flights to Ningbo and Wuxi. For an hour, the airport was entirely shut down and a total of eighteen flights were disrupted.
Interestingly, local residents had been seeing strange lights in the sky prior to the airport sighting. One resident, Ma Shijun, reported that he saw a strange object emitting red and white rays of light. The time of his sighting was around 20:26: roughly fifteen minutes prior to the airport sighting. As Shijun and his wife were walking down the road, they felt a beam of light over their heads and once they looked up, they saw the strange object in the sky.
The Investigation
Naturally, after the unidentified aircraft shut down the airport for an entire hour, a proper investigation was launched by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The day after the sighting, it was reported that the UFO might have been a military aircraft. However, this theory has not been confirmed.
Although we cannot come to any conclusions since the evidence is scarce, I must clarify that in every circumstance and country, every aircraft needs the proper authorization to be in the sky. If the UFO was a military aircraft, which it could very well have been, it is strange that the air traffic control operators were not informed. Even if it was the case that it was a classified aircraft, it is not logical for an airport to shut down for an entire hour unless absolutely necessary.
The Sightings Continue
Just one week after the Xioashan Airport sightings, on July 15, 2010, “four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape” were seen hovering over Chongqing in Eastern China.78 One witness reported that the four UFOs remained in the sky for over an hour before they started ascending farther into the atmosphere, until they disappeared.
The UFO sightings over China did not end in the summer of 2010. The following year, on August 20, 2011, Shanghai Daily reported that several pilots had seen UFOs in the sky. A pilot for Flight 6554 described the object as being a huge, bright white ball climbing out of the thick clouds. The object had a diameter of approximately ninety kilometers and remained in the sky for over twenty minutes. The object started losing its brightness until it gradually disappeared. At first, the pilot on board thought that this must have been an illusion of some sort or a weather phenomenon. However, he later learned that at least ten pilots had made the same report to the air traffic control operators.
On the same day, similar reports were made in Beijing at the same time the UFO was seen in Shanghai. Once again, although the two locations are at least one thousand kilometers apart, the reports made were very similar. Yu Jun, a former editor of a scientific magazine, stated that a large white ball of light appeared in the sky and it increased in its size. After five minutes, the object disappeared.
Conclusion
It is unclear whether these UFOs were military aircraft, natural phenomena or interplanetary objects. Although we will not have the answer to this question, it is clear that mysterious objects were in the Chinese skies in the summer of 2010 and 2011.
78. Stephan Kurczy, “China UFO Spotted Again. Why Skepticism is Warranted,” The Christian Science Monitor, July 16, 2010, https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0716/China-UFO-spotted-again.-Why-skepticism-is-warranted.