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This is a CIA translation, dated 1 October 1980, of an article by Jin Tao titled "Sightings of Flying Saucers in China" from the Harbin magazine Kexue Shidai (Scientific Age), No 5. The article prints excerpts from letters that readers sent in during 1979. The writers describe glowing, rotating discs, wheels and globes seen across China between 1943 and 1979, including sightings in Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangxi and Beijing. The magazine says it cannot yet explain the sightings but will keep collecting clues.
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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF UFO SIGHTINGS PUBLISHED Harbin KEXUE SHIDAI [SCIENTIFIC AGE] in Chinese, No 5, Oct 1980 pp 5-7 [Article by Jin Tao [6855 3947]: "Sightings of Flying Saucers in China"] [Text] Not only has a stream of reports of flying saucers come out abroad, but even in China reports of flying saucers have begun. The excerpts from letters printed below are reports of firsthand observations for which we express our sincere appreciation to the reporters. Do flying saucers exist? Are they flying objects launched by superior forms of life on other celestial bodies in our galaxy? We currently have no way of replying, but this does not stop us from studying and collecting clues no matter how tenuous they may be. On 24 September 1979, a report was received from Yang Xiusong [2799 4423 2646], teacher at a supplemental school in Tianjin's eastern suburbs: It was the autumn of 1943, possibly a day in September at some time after 1900 hours in the evening at my native home in Qingxian. I was enjoying myself in the courtyard when suddenly something flew across the sky from east to west shining white light, but the light wave (the area covered) was not large. Its center seemed like a saucer "revolving around a fixed point" in the sky. When I saw it passing overhead, I ran up to the roof of the house at once to watch it, but it disappeared in about a minute. Later on I heard that it had landed somewhere. I think I was not the only one to see it at that time, and later on there was a lot of discussion about it, and it was said to be a new weapon that Japan had invented. On 25 September 1979, a report was received from Wang Xue'an [3769 1331 1344] of the Burmese Language Unit of the Beijing Foreign Languages Bureau. Around 1900 or 2000 hours on the evening of 18 September 1971, before the sky had entirely darkened and before the moon had come out, and not long after the students from Ji County in Hunan Province who were attending the May 7 Cadre School at the Foreign language Bureau in Beijing had eaten, everybody was in his room, some studying, some reading newspapers, some writing, and some chatting among themselves. Since I had nothing to do, I walked out the main entrance of the dormitory only to suddenly discover at a distance of about 2,000 or 3,000 meters up in the sky a huge lighted wheel slowly revolving in a clockwise direction while moving forward. After I shouted, the people in their rooms came flying out to watch. Unfortunately, when
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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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.