Chinese airport closed after UFO spotted over city

[Lyricus]

Chinese airport closed after UFO spotted over city


A Chinese airport was closed after this mysterious object was spotted in the sky.
Arcing over Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou, the UFO appeared to glow with an eerie white light and left a bright trail in its wake.
Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm and dozens of flights had to be diverted.

Stunned witnesses reported seeing a comet-like fireball in the sky and a number of local residents took photos of the strange ball of light.
A local bus driver, giving his name only as Yu, said he had seen a strange glowing object in the sky late on Wednesday afternoon.
'The thing suddenly ran westwards fast, like it was escaping from something,' he said.
Inbound flights were diverted to nearby airports while outbound flights were delayed for three to four hours.
Some Chinese experts claimed that the strange sight was actually debris from a US intercontinental ballistic missile.
Chinese officials later said that they knew what the object had been but were unable to make it public because there was a 'military connection.'
An official statement is expected later today.


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This is pretty amazing!!

[Lyricus]

Could be a Meteor looking at this picture....

[viking]

Well various sources have stated that we will see more and more viewings...about bloody time!!

Cheers Mr H ;-)

viking

[Celine]

it will be interesting to hear the "official" report lol

[Swami]

How far would the Chinese be with their technological developments these days........?

[Helvetic]

invert


Some more informations

An unidentified flying object (UFO) disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou late on Wednesday, the municipal government said on Thursday.

Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm, and some flights were rerouted to airports in the cities of Ningbo and Wuxi , said an airport spokesman, who declined to be named.

The airport had resumed operations, and more details will be released after an investigation, he said.

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.

Inbound flights were diverted to the nearby airports in Zhejiang province's Ningbo and Jiangsu province's Wuxi. Outbound flights were delayed for three to four hours.

A staff member at the airport's information desk said the airport had "no idea" how many flights were affected by the closure.

At around 11 pm on Wednesday, a netizen wrote three entries announcing the airport's closure in

his microblog at Sina.com, but they were all soon deleted.

He posted an apology at midnight, saying the news had not been confirmed and asking those who had republished his earlier entries to delete them.

Source: China Daily(By Yang Yijun)

[PHARAOH]

Great pics and posts!

AMOR!

[Arpheus]

That looks different from everything else i seen before quite interesting tho.

[steve_a]

Hi Everybody,

If anyone can speak Chinese, please translate this news report about the incident. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGgrL...ayer_embedded#!

Best regards,

Steve

[Cyaneyed]

Posted by Lyricus (here)


Could be a Meteor looking at this picture....

I thought so too, but the perspective throws me a little. I don't see the other shot in the news report?

[BMJ]

Hi Guys,
Below is a link, photos and video the explanation for the photo above of the UFO streaking across the sky.

Link:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/792...till-a-mystery

[Elandiel BernElve]

A few days ago I read an official said the military might have some involvemnt in this sighting. So who knows how technologically advanced the Chinese are.
Ill post the source link if i can find it again

[Etherios]

The footage is amazing ... even if its chinese military ... omg this should be a huge media uproar ... noone is talking in the west about it pff

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-h7DaJCqx4

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbfsUPxSYt0

[Luke]

Ever heard about photographing with long exposures?
Most of pictures above are such photos of police helicopter with searchlight or something similar (search google images)
The most interesting one is "descending fireball" presented in one of first posts .. but that can be re-entry vehicle of sorts, does not need extraterrestrial explanation The "comet"-like thing in second video is interesting too, looks like aircraft flying through the cloud, but in reverse (or same helicopter with searchlight in the low cloud during sunset ) , still both can be CGI. Other than that, lots of hype. 99% of "ufo sightings" are people mislabeling natural/manmade phenomena. Its the 1% that is interesting
Have a good time

[Etherios]

Oh i thought you would say it was gas clouds lol.. ye right they closed the airport because there were helicopters waitting to be overexposed in fotos...

And the video with the white trail that changes direction is a comet right? ok HF

[Elandiel BernElve]

Posted by SaiCO (here)
Ever heard about photographing with long exposures?
Most of pictures above are such photos of police helicopter with searchlight or something similar (search google images)
The most interesting one is "descending fireball" presented in one of first posts .. but that can be re-entry vehicle of sorts, does not need extraterrestrial explanation The "comet"-like thing in second video is interesting too, looks like aircraft flying through the cloud, but in reverse (or same helicopter with searchlight in the low cloud during sunset ) , still both can be CGI. Other than that, lots of hype. 99% of "ufo sightings" are people mislabeling natural/manmade phenomena. Its the 1% that is interesting
Have a good time

Ever heard of official statements ? They didn't close the airport because the radar screen showed a long exposed photograph of a policehelicopter... I wonder whether you read the article..

Secondly, 99% of UFO sightings are fake? And you know that of course because all these people who see them with their bare eyes in fact see a cgi projection that george lucas and steven spielberg were developing for their new space drama..

No offense, it's good to be skeptical but you give us, ufo sighters, investigators and even the chinese not enough credit at all.

I've seen different UFO's and I know they're UFO's because i'm researching the subject.
I know when I see the ISS flying over
I know when I see a satellite flying over
I know when I see a falling star passing by
I know what an airplane looks like, even in the dark and how their lights twinkle
I know what a balloon is
I know when I see a searchlight in the clouds
I know the sounds and looks (even in dark) of our F-16 airforce fleet

And I know when I see super bright glowing red lights in the sky moving at incredible angles and speed in formations that they aren't any of the above.
And don't bother me with the possibilities they might be exhausts of jetfighter engines because i know their faint orange yellow color that is only seeable from one angle.

Don't take this personal towards you my friend

But I do take it personal when people treat me like someone who can't see the difference between natural or human phenomena and unexplainable events.

I'm tired of being treated a fool because I've got my eyes on the sky and DO notice stuff that i'm not supposed to know about

[Helvetic]

Here some examples of photographing with long exposures.







Helicopter shoot at night with a Nikon D50 and an exposure time of 10s:




More examples here

[Luke]

Posted by Elandiel BernElve (here)
Don't take this personal towards you my friend

Can't take it personally, as what you say is true.
What you point out are precisely the precautions any serious UFO researcher should take.

Notice that I did not wrote about event itself, only about supposed "photos" of the event that people hype about!
You know, being right for all the wrong reasons?

Sadly, people seek "unexplained" in natural phenomena and produce "food for debunkers", while serious research in real unexplained events/unidentified objects is bogged down by ridicule, which is caused by amount of mislabelling other people make. See the vicious circle?
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Great examples Helvetic!

[Elandiel BernElve]

Posted by SaiCO (here)
Notice that I did not wrote about event itself, only about supposed "photos" of the event that people hype about!
You know, being right for all the wrong reasons?

Sadly, people seek "unexplained" in natural phenomena and produce "food for debunkers", while serious research in real unexplained events/unidentified objects is bogged down by ridicule, which is caused by amount of mislabelling other people make. See the vicious circle?

Point taken! It's true many people instantly shout around some nonsense when they think they saw something

[Etherios]

Helvetic you think the chinese incident is a fake? long exxposure + comet?