Eyewitness Account of UFO Sightings Published

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can find out if necessary). Many people had congregated in front of the stage to watch a play, when suddenly there appeared in the sky an orange-yellow, revolving, disk-shaped dlying object, which slowly moved from the northwest toward the southeastern horizon in the course of from one to two minutes. At Yongfeng, many fellow villagers also came rushing out to look in response to shouts of alarm. After our team dispersed, it was said that some people in Gaoling had also seen this phenomenon, and quite a few people believe they had seen it.

On 10 October 1979, a report was received from Wang Baosheng [3769 1405 3932] at the People's Printing Plant in Baoji, Shaanxi Province:

In August 1977 while I was at Shujiagou, Miaociuan Brigade, at the foot of Wu Mountain in the Xinjie Commune of Baoji County, I saw a strange star. On the afternoon of this day just as night was falling, the sky was exceptionally clear; the heavens were filled with stars, and there were no clouds. Five of us including Li Donglin [2621 2639 2651], Huang Aizhong [7806 1947 1813], and Liang Zhike [2733 1807 4430] had just ringed the table to eat. When I raised my head, suddenly I saw a strange star fly over the tops of our heads, and I immediately excitedly told everyone to look. We saw only that it belched smoke and shot out tongues of flame as it rotated off to the south. This thing was about as large as a small basin, and it disappeared from view within about one minute.

On 14 October 1979, a report was received from Liu Genji [0491 2704 1015], worker at the transportation repair plant of the 71 Roadbed Construction Company, Tongzhou City, Shaanxi Province:

It was probably during the wheat harvest season of 1970 or 1971 in Chengguan Prefecture, Tongzhou City. (I can't remember for sure just when I went to live and work at the production team there). I and two other young men were on the road back to the production team after having delivered some vegetables to the procurement station. (It was already around 2100 hours). When I looked up at the sky over my head, there was a fogg, kind of cloud that was very white and semi-transparent. The sky was clear at the time, and I didn't see the moon nor any other clouds. I had never seen such a semi-transparent misty cloud before, and I was very curious about it. As I pulled the two-wheeled cart along, I looked upward at it and told my buddies about it. After about 20 seconds, a wheel that looked like a globe emerged from it, which was about as big as the full moon when it first rises on the day of the mid-autumn festival. It was very bright and moved ahead slowly and rotated upward. It then stopped at what I would guess was about 200 meters away and was slowly enveloped by a semi-transparent misty cloud and became no longer visible. Along the line of its flight a mist lingered such as comes out of a jet airplane exhaust. My guess about its height is that it was substantially the same as the height of the moon when it comes up. We walked for about two li, and it also rotated away behind the western hills like the moon, maintaining the same speed throughout. If it had not spurted out a misty cloud, I might have supposed that it was the moon moving faster than usual.