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This FBIS translation, relayed through the Joint Staff in May 1992, carries a 13 May 1992 Xinhua report on the Fourth National Congress of the China UFO Society. The congress confirmed that China would study UFOs under dialectical materialist principles and modern natural science. The report says more than 5,000 UFO reports had been registered on the Chinese mainland over the past decade or so. It also cites Chinese research on ball lightning and on flying object design, and quotes acting president Wang Changting calling for more international cooperation.
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## UNCLASSIFIED PAGE:0049 INQUIRE=DOC18D ITEM NO=00043523 ENVELOPE CDSN = LGX392 MCN = 92135/16590 TOR = 921351032 RTTUZYUW RUEKJCS0522 1351032-UUUU--RUEALGX. ZNR UUUUU HEADER R 141032Z MAY 92 FM JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC INFO RUEALGX/SAFE R 141028Z MAY 92 FM FBIS OKINAWA JA TO AIG 4581 ACCT FBOW-EWDK BT CONTROLS UNCLAS 1A SERIAL: OW1405102892 BODY COUNTRY: PRC SUBJ: CHINA UFO SOCIETY MEETS; TO CONTINUE SCIENTIFIC STUDY SOURCE: BEIJING XINHUA DOMESTIC SERVICE IN CHINESE 0450 GMT 13 MAY 92 TEXT: //((BY REPORTER ZHUO PEIRONG (0587 1014 2837))) ((TEXT)) BEIJING, 13 MAY (XINHUA) -- THE FOURTH NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE CHINA UFO ((UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT)) SOCIETY, WHICH CLOSED TODAY, REAFFIRMED THAT, IN STUDYING THE UFO PHENOMENON, CHINA WILL ALWAYS FOLLOW THE DIALECTICAL MATERIALIST GUIDING PRINCIPLE AND A PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE, AND WILL ALWAYS USE MODERN NATURAL SCIENTIFIC THEORY AS THE BASIS FOR THIS STUDY. THE UFO PHENOMENON IS A PUZZLE THAT HAS BAFFLED MANKIND SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS CENTURY. SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT UFOS ARE SPACESHIPS SENT TO THE EARTH BY WISE EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS. THE UNITED NATIONS ADOPTED A RESOLUTION IN 1978 ASKING ALL NATIONS TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE UFO PROBLEM. THIS YEAR IS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SPACE; THE UNITED NATIONS HAS AGAIN BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE. IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT SO FAR SOME 400,000 PEOPLE OVER THE WORLD HAVE CLAIMED TO HAVE WITNESSED UFOS. IN THE PAST DECADE AND MORE, MORE THAN 5,000 REPORTS ON UFOS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED IN THE CHINESE MAINLAND. IN THE LAST DECADE AND MORE, CHINA'S SCIENCE CIRCLE HAS CALLED FOR TREATING THE UFO PHENOMENON WITH A SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE. CHINESE SCIENTISTS HAVE ACHIEVED IMPORTANT RESULTS IN THE STUDY OF BALLSHAPE LIGHTNING ((QIU ZHUANG SHAN DIAN, 3808 3692 7026 7193)) ## UNCLASSIFIED Approved for Release Date AUG 1997
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.