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This is an edited English translation, dated 11 April 1983, prepared by the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB, of a September 1982 article by Liu Yan in the Chinese journal Tianwen Aihaozhe. The article covers the spiral luminous object that several million people in western China saw on July 24, 1981. It rejects Zhang Zhousheng's claim that the object was a Cassiopeia meteoroid he had predicted. The author concludes it was most probably a man-made flying machine several hundred km up.
From THE ASTRONOMY LOVER THE "UFO" OF JULY 2!J, 1981 A Discussion with Comrade Zhang Zhousheng Liu Yan The "7.24" UFO Event P~r ------ ----~ _D ~:- t 1-: !·,- ' - - n/ I-- lv~-, ; !ty Codes ' -. · .: l. ~~nd/or- CAl O;ccinl About 10:40 p.m., July 2!J, 1981, several million people in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc., provinces in the western part of our country witnessed an amazing "flying disc" event: A spectacular flying luminous body with a spiral shape appeared in the sky; its central portion spins and moves slowly about a direction from east to west. A wonderful natural phenomenon, what is it? In June of the same year, Comrade Zhang Zhousheng of the Yunnan Astrononical Observatory had predicted that: We shall see a UFO in late July. On July 2!Jth, the "flying disc" indeed came, and its shape looked very like what had been predicted by him. Zhang Zhousheng then suddenly became prominent. Several dozen newspapers and magazines in the country were reporting this event and thus made it big news. Zhang Zhousheng himself also wrote a number of articles in several journals, particularly three published in succession in the journal "World Science" that had introduced in detail his "theory" and "prediction." Nevertheless, this author believes his "theory" is all wrong, and the "7.24" flying object is irrelevant to his "prediction." 1 ...... .........• :..-z.'....·..._,_-•'.......:....•"_;,•'.-;....·'_..;.._..:......:·-·..!...'~-=-··~'::....•',_!,'•--..:....._:•.._'.:...•....:·~-·....,·,.........,__,•_--'-"---'--~-_.· ____ _;____~_·.._~ .._1.._·.._·~-- '---~--.a.~-··.--..:_ L- ··- • ~·-a .,.•_'. ..: .. - . ·... ~· -· -~ ._ -
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 9 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.