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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.
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Finally, we must also t~ke note that even if the locus of
certain flying objects is towards Cassiopeia, it does not necessarily
mean that they are the meteoroids frorr. the meteoric swarm of
Cassiopeia. He had published a figure in the second issue of 1982
"lvorld Science" and declared that the theoretically calculated locus
and the observed locus of the "7.24 11 :J~"O('fit each other very well";
both of them pass through the so-called radiant point of the meteoric
swarm of Cassiopeia. But he has never furnished any observed data to
support it and tell how the figure was plotted. We ere very much con-
cerned about the accuracy and reliability of this figure!
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