Experts: Hangzhou's UFO was no alien craft
By Wang Xiang |
July 27, 2010, Tuesday
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THE UFO that shut down Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Airport earlier this month was definitely not an alien aircraft, experts from a UFO investigation team said.
The investigators from Beijing and Shanghai UFO study groups based their conclusion on pictures shot by witnesses of the UFO. They said the pictures showed regular airplanes, Beijing Times reported yesterday.
Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou was closed after the UFO was detected at about 9pm on July 7. Some flights were forced to land in nearby airports in Ningbo and Wuxi and all leaving flights were grounded for about an hour.
After the airport reopened, pictures shot by self-proclaimed witnesses swirled online. One picture shot by a Hangzhou native surnamed Ma appeared on media all over the country. Ma's picture showed a line of lights.
The experts said the pictures obviously were of anti-collision and landing lights on regular human-flown planes, the report said.
"The pictures were fuzzy... when the light source was dragging through when Ma snapped the picture," an official with the organization Zhou Xiaoqiang said. "It was only a landing airplane," Zhou concluded.
But netizens were not convinced, saying the airport authority refused to give the experts access to their information on the UFO. Netizens added that the experts didn't talk to the first witness, a pilot who saw the UFO when he was landing his plane.
The experts offered no other explanation for the Hangzhou sighting.
The investigators from Beijing and Shanghai UFO study groups based their conclusion on pictures shot by witnesses of the UFO. They said the pictures showed regular airplanes, Beijing Times reported yesterday.
Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou was closed after the UFO was detected at about 9pm on July 7. Some flights were forced to land in nearby airports in Ningbo and Wuxi and all leaving flights were grounded for about an hour.
After the airport reopened, pictures shot by self-proclaimed witnesses swirled online. One picture shot by a Hangzhou native surnamed Ma appeared on media all over the country. Ma's picture showed a line of lights.
The experts said the pictures obviously were of anti-collision and landing lights on regular human-flown planes, the report said.
"The pictures were fuzzy... when the light source was dragging through when Ma snapped the picture," an official with the organization Zhou Xiaoqiang said. "It was only a landing airplane," Zhou concluded.
But netizens were not convinced, saying the airport authority refused to give the experts access to their information on the UFO. Netizens added that the experts didn't talk to the first witness, a pilot who saw the UFO when he was landing his plane.
The experts offered no other explanation for the Hangzhou sighting.
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