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FIRST UFO INCIDENT FOR OUR COUNTRY UFO incident causes sensation throughout half of China Long Ruyi It was a clear, brightly starlit night, on 24 July 1981, in south- west and northwest China as well as a large area of southern and south- central China. The Milky Way slanted across the night sky and there was no moon. Suddenly at 2238 hours, a strange star-shaped bright spot was sighted by a large number of people in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces when it appeared in the sky to the north. The glimmer be- came brighter, began to oscillate and then a cloud-like band of light formed around the circumference of the bright spot. The huge spiral shaped UFO with its bright silver color lighting up the cloudless night sky was an especially striking, magnificent and grand sight in contrast with the star-studded sky. In the brief six or seven minutes from its appearance to its disappearance, some 10,000,000 people sim- ultaneously witnessed this extraordinary sight in thenight sky., In the first few month after the incident occurred, approximately 40 newspapers* periodicals, and radio stations have published and broadcast some 70 news reports and analytical research articles concerning this incident. The New China News Agency transmitted this information to the entire world and the Hong Kong press continues to print reports with impressive layouts. The U. S. Center for UFO re- search in Illinois has also followed this event with great interest. According to the Chinese Association for UFO Research, such a = U- , _ -- m , - , . , . . ... . ... .. ., . . ..-.... .. ,. ..-.- ... - . -. .-. .. . .. . ... . .. . .. .
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