Eyewitness Account of UFO Sightings Published

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That evening a movie was being shown in a unit at the southern edge of our farm, and many of the people from our farm went to see it. It was already quite late when I went (probably between 2030 and 2100 hours). It was already dark and stars flickered in the sky. Visibility was excellent, and the open countryside stretched as far as the eye could see. I and two other colleagues walked along together, examining the magnificent star-studded sky as we walked. Since childhood, I have been quite fond of astronomy, and while a primary school student in Shanghai, I joined the astronomy section of the municipal youth science and technology guidance station.) Suddenly, the attention of all three of us was attracted by a marvelous flying object. Since it was so peculiar, everyone seemed frightened, held their breaths, and made not a sound. A very large flying object emitting a milky white strong light flew soundlessly over our heads, flying off to our right side at not too great a speed, going from north to south. Our first impression was that it was not far from us (the surface of the ground), because if most of the stars may be said to be as large as a "sesame seed," the flying object was as big as "a one-cent nickel coin" (or else if it was distant from us, it was extremely large). It was rotating (but I have forgotten the direction of rotation), and it had a power source that emitted light. The light was very bright but not eye-piercing. The light beam shone down in a whorl-like shape (like smoke rings) as the body of the flying objected revolved. Each ring came out in about 1 or 2 seconds. This flying object seemed to be multi-storied, because it did not look like a circular iron cake but rather like the cover for an enamel mug, and because it gave me the feeling that in addition to the light projected downward as it rotated, that the light from other small points of light were even brighter than that light beam. The entire flying object was shrouded in a vapor-like light that was a little less bright than the whorl-shaped light beams that shown down from the rotation, and the flying object was not flat.

Within about one-half to one minute, it disappeared over the horizon to the front of us (the south).

On 5 October 1979, a report was received from Wang Ziteng [3076 5261 7506], of the Athletic Commission in Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province:

One evening during the summer of 1958 at around 2000 or 2100 hours, I was in my hometown of Wangjiacun, Boyang County, Jiangxi Province. I was outside the main entrance to the courtyard enjoying the cool air, when suddenly I heard several housewives shout, "It's bad. It's a bad omen!" Some picked up vegetable knives, and some held sticks with which they beat on the bamboo bed in an effort to drive away the "monster"!

The "monster" was round in shape and able to emit red light and blue, and white colored light. Its speed of flight was not too fast, and it was, perhaps, somewhat more than 10 zhang high...

On 6 October 1979, Li Hong [2621 3163] of the 205 team (Gaoling County, Shaanxi Province) of the No 2 Composite Prospecting Brigade of the headquarters of the State Geology Bureau reported:

In 1977, we were working in Luonan Prefecture in Shaanxi Province. It was probably toward nightfall in the middle of October (I can't remember the exact time, but I