CHINA Report Science and Technology No.79

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speed was at least 850 kilometers per hour, and if you take into consideration the reduction in speed to change direction, it must have actually been even faster. In addition, according to Lo Xuezhi's estimate, the visual diameter of the long axis was greater than 2 degrees, so at a distance of 1500 meters, its lineal angle must have been more than 50 meters.

Disc shaped unidentified flying objects sometimes also appear at high altitudes. One summer night in 1965, when Song Jiandong [1345 1696 2639] of the broadcasting station in Jingan County, Jiangxi County was looking at the stars, (Song was on a temporary duty assignment in Beijing at the time in the courtyard at 20 Shangsitiao, Chongwen District), when unexpectedly he sighted a small bright point of light moving across the night sky from west to east at a speed similar to that of most artificial satellites. Soon afterward he discovered that a rather large point of light had appeared behind the first one. After 10 seconds or so, the distance between the two points of light gradually narrowed, and Song Jiandong immediately aimed his homemade astronomical telescope at them. He saw that the large point of light appeared oval in shape and emitted green light. The small point of light remained in the shape of a dot. When he again used his unaided eyes to look, the large point of light suddenly collided with the small point of light at a speed several times what it had been. The two moved now left now right in pursuit of each other as though playing. As the two points of light almost collided, they both disappeared at the same time. Song Jiandong looked, his eyes astounded and his mouth agape, and recorded the event immediately thereafter. He felt they were positively not meteorites or artificial satellites.

In still another report, an unidentified flying object appeared at low altitudes, frequently shining a powerful beam of light toward the surface of the earth. In late January 1979, an unidentified flying object of ordinary shape stopped suspended above a highway in Training County, Fujian Province shining a blinding light downward and scaring in all directions three women from Zhukou Commune who were going to market before dawn. In February of the same year, an extremely bright flying object darted across an airfield in Shanxi "lighting up half the sky." Similar reports have also come from Jiangsu and Hubei provinces. At 0930 on 1 July, Liu Baoren [0491 1405 0088], Tian Qing [3944 7230], and Zhao Yauyan [6392 3601 3601] of the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, were waiting for a bus at the Qijiahuozi bus stop in the northern suburbs of Beijing. They sighted a ball shaped flying object in the sky with an estimated diameter of 10 meters. From the bottom of it projected a tail that looked like a stick that was about 5 meters long, and hung straight down. It flew from due southeast toward the northeast against the wind at the speed of most airplanes and without noise of any kind. Inquires made by the witnesses revealed that on that day no meteorological or atmospheric testing balloons had been released by the Beijing Observatory or the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. Only the Beijing Meteorology Station had released a meteorology balloon, but the balloon was white, while the flying object appeared to be dark gray in color. The times did not jibe either.

The second category are huge, long unidentified flying objects. They rarely appear.

At 2040 hours on 23 October 1978, a huge, long unidentified flying object appeared in the sky over a certain airfield in Gansu Province. It carried two bright lights