Caught on Tape: UFO in China

Staff Writer

July 16, 2010, 4:17 a.m.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang CHINA—

An unidentified flying object forced an airport in a major Chinese city to shut down operations for an hour, various reports said.

According to state media outlet China Daily, the incident happened at Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Airport on July 7, when the UFO was spotted around 8:30 p.m. According to the report, the object did not show up on radar.

All inbound and outbound flights were grounded from 8:45 p.m. to 9:41 p.m., and up to 2,000 passengers were affected, according to the China Daily.

An unknown source told China Daily the UFO may have been military-related. The government said the investigation is ongoing.

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Lone82 at 5:19 PM July 19, 2010

Unfortunately, this video is not from Hangzhou but from Kazakhstan and was taken on June 30th and shows a Progress M launch from the Baikonur," Forden said. The rocket seen here, in other words, was a routine launch to resupply the International Space Station. "It looks so strange because the upper stages have already left the earths atmosphere and the plume has expanded to many kilometers. It's very unusual to see this from the Earth's surface (and very interesting since it shows the transition from one stage to another) but it is not a black-ops rocket at all.

ascannerdarkly at 2:58 PM July 19, 2010

Even if it was an extraterrestrial craft the governments of Earth would use clandestine subterranean lab facilties to apply synthetic telepathy/nuero-impulse weapons technology to the population and dumb everybody down. This is the reality of a post-nuclear secret biotech world. They Live.

kazam1 at 8:16 AM July 18, 2010

This is NOT a UFO. It can easily be identified by anyone with a little bit of military or aerospace knowledge. This is an intercontinental missile test. The proof of this is:

1.) China said there has a military explanation that they weren't ready to elaborate on. "China Daily reported that authorities may know more about the mystery UFO than they're letting on, hinting that there might be a military connection and that a final explanation may be forthcoming today."

2.) It is high in the atmosphere that is why the smoke trail is brighter than the surrounding sky.

3.) At 0:13 seconds into the clip, the first stage is jettisoned and the second stage ignites.

4.) I have seen this exact same phenomenon myself. It too was a military rocket test. They are actually quite common though not often done during dusk/dawn where they are most visible due to the sun catching the exhaust contrails.

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