Chinas UFO Invasion

Photo: A “UFO” spotted over an airport in Hangzhou in 2010

By Eric Fish
May 16, 2013

eeo.com.cn

On Monday (May 13) a series of “UFO” photos emerged after people in several Chinese cities reported seeing a strange light in the sky.

This was just the latest in a wave of UFO sightings that have happened throughout the country in recent years. So after a relatively quiet 5,000-year history in the field, why are UFOs all-of-a-sudden becoming so common in China?

In 1947, three highly-publicized UFO sightings happened in the United States within a two-week span culminating with the Roswell Incident, where some alleged that the U.S. government had recovered and hidden an alien ship wreck. In the years that followed, hundreds more sightings were reported, official inquiries were launched and the idea of alien visitors captured America’s imagination.

The conditions that existed in America at the time may help explain the influx of UFOs in China.

When UFO sightings are investigated, they’re usually found to have been one of four things:
1. Something that’s easily explained (ie – a weather balloon, airplane, science experiment or natural phenomenon)
2. A military test
3. A hoax
4. A genuine unidentified flying object that nobody can explain, meaning the possibility of an extraterrestrial origin can’t be ruled out. 

According to famous theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, 95 percent of all UFO sightings fall into the first three categories. “It’s the 5 percent that give you the willies,” he said in an interview with MSNBC. These tend to be cases where several credible witnesses using multiple mediums (like eyesight and radar) see something inexplicable through our understanding of physics and human technology.

For post-1947 America, each of the four possible UFO explanations had fertile ground. It was right after the end of World War II when the U.S. found itself with a stockpile of leftover military aircraft. Many of these planes were repurposed for carrying paying passengers, giving rise to a boom in commercial flight and filling America’s skies with lights that people had never seen before. 

This period was also the beginning of the Cold War, when the U.S. military was testing all sorts of new airborne technology while remaining hyper-sensitive about its secrecy. Many UFO sightings turned out to be military-related operations yet unknown to the greater public and unacknowledged by the U.S. government.

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