Eyewitness Account of UFO Sightings Published

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I first discovered the lighted wheel, it had already passed over our cadre school and was located at a 60 to 80 degree angle to it. It headed in a northwesterly direction away from us and slowly floated away. This great flying wheel assumed the form of a smoke cloud, and it looked a little like a spiral nebula in pictures of heavenly bodies. It emitted a yellowish light, but I heard no sound. The center of this huge lighted wheel seemed thick while it became gradually thinner toward the edges. Its speed of turning was quite slow, but its speed of forward motion was relatively fast. I observed it for about one minute until it graudally disappeared across the horizon to the northwest. All 10 of us kept looking at this extraordinary phenomenon until we could see it no longer.

On 27 September 1979, a report was received from Liu Taiquan [0491 3141 1557], a graduate in the 79th class of No 2 Middle School in Chengyang Municipal Middle School in Shaanxi Province:

On 23 October 1977, I wandered the streets and lanes listening to adults chatting. It was almost dusk when suddenly someone pointed at the sky and said: "Look! What is that?" Everyone looked up at the sky. We saw only a globe shape (dark yellow in color) spinning there and moving forward vary rapidly. It remained within our sight for only a minute or so (though we watched until it disappeared). Out of curiosity, I recorded the incident in my middle school arithmetic book, and this is what I wrote. "At 6:45 pm on 23 October 1977, the direction of flight was from north to south."

On 29 September 1979, the Shaanxi Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences forwarded a report from Wang Yongjun [3769 0516 6511], third year student in the Department of History at Shaanxi Teachers University:

During summer vacation this year on an afternoon in early August (between 1600 and 1700 hours, the sky was dark blue and utterly cloudless when my mother and I cleaned up some wheat that had been left out for sunning. Suddenly we discovered coming directly out of the west a basically globe shaped (its edges were irregular) thing like a fireball, revolving and flying toward the southeast. It was yellow, red and white in color, but yellow predominated with red next, and finally white. The center of the globe had the shape of a tongue of flame that constantly changed, but the tongue of flame did not extend outside the body of the globe. It flew forward at an even speed (faster than an airplane but slower than a meteorite) without stopping and without any apparent increase in altitude. The object flew for about a minute until it suddenly disappeared without trace in a souheasterly direction. The object was larger than a wash basin but smaller than a sieve.

Point of observation: Shunling Second Brigade, Dizhang Commune, Jianyang City.

On 28 February 1979, a report was received from Wang Zhen [3769 7201], second year student in the Department of Chinese Language at Gansu Teachers University:

It was probably one day in August 1977 when I was at Baldunzi in Jingtai County, Wuwei Prefecture, Gansu Province. At the time, I was a trade union cadre in the Yinzhen Textile Mill in Gansu Province, and I had just arrived together with a group of employees from the mill, at a farm operated by the mill where we were going to join in the wheat harvest (at approximately 104.5° E, 37.5° W.)