In ancient China, there were drawings of various gods sailing across the skies in a chariot.
DouMu was perhaps the most famous goddess to make use of this method of transport. But now that China is a communist country, flying gods in chariots are somewhat frowned upon as being a tad reactionary.
So, there has been a more modern replacement to the old myths – Aliens, in flying saucers.
There have long been reports of close encounters of the Chinese kind with aliens. China’s airports have been shut down due to UFO sightings and activity. There is even a military unit dedicated to the investigation of flying saucers.
It doesn’t take a giant leap of faith to figure that the Chinese have created their own advanced technologies. And that they have taken flying saucers very seriously. Afterall, China is the master of reverse engineering and duplicating technology on the cheap.
China’s air space has been ‘invaded’ by saucers on several occasions. In 2010, ‘more than 20 flights were postponed at Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, because of a sighting.’[1]
In 1998, Chinese authorities officially confirmed a UFO sighting ‘when two military jets had to intercept a low-flying object that looked like a “short-legged mushroom” with two beams of lights from its centre; when approached, the object increased speed until it reached over 20,000 metres before disappearing in a “ghostlike” manner.’[2]
In September of 2024, there were multiple sightings of UFOs in China. Some of which interfered with the normal operation of airports. Tianjin Binhai Airport experienced abnormal flight operations for two consecutive days, causing numerous flight delays.
On one occasion, the airport was closed for eleven hours. On another, twenty nine flights were delayed, eight were cancelled and thirty two were diverted. Loss was estimated at one million four hundred thousand dollars.[3]
Beyond the airport interruptions that have taken place in China over the last thirty or so years, there have been alleged interactions between extraterrestrials and Chinese citizens — some of which must be taken with a sizeable dose of MSG to be believed, especially one particular tall tale:
‘In 1994, Meng Zhaoguo, a farmer from Heilongjiang province, said he saw a UFO parked on Fenghuang Mountain one evening. When he and his niece’s husband tried to approach the craft, he says a powerful but invisible force, which felt like an electric current moving through his body, stopped him from getting any closer. Later, he claimed the aliens took him from his bed onto their spaceship and that a three-meter-tall female alien had sex with him for 40 minutes, telling him their child would be born 60 years later.’[4]
In 1999, a Beijing school principal was abducted by aliens and witnessed an operation on a young female fellow abductee. The operation apparently cured her of whatever illness she had. In 2012, in Hunan province a retired soldier built what he called a ‘liaison station’ for his alien pals.
In another encounter, a Beijing citizen reported being repeatedly abducted and forced to drink some sort of green grass like liquid. It apparently didn’t do him any harm, since the abduction occurred in his sleep, and he repeatedly woke up to tell people about the incidents.[5]
Of course, the more skeptical might think it was just a bad dream. While we might not take the above encounter stories seriously, the Chinese military is definitely taking it seriously.
The Chinese military has formed a special UFO task force. They are using AI (artificial intelligence) to analyze the mass of disparate data with respect to flying saucers, to make sense of the phenomena.
The information comes from:
‘[Military] radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, weather stations, and Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories’ and is correlated in a data base sent to military commands. From there, a threat index is created, ‘based on the observed behaviors, frequencies, aerodynamic design, radioactivity, possible make and materials, along with any pertinent information.’[6]
But not only are the Chinese dedicating resources to the study, observation and analysis of Unidentified Flying Objects, they are working on creating their own.
In 2022 it was reported that a vertical take-off and landing vehicles company is constructing saucer shaped like aircraft. Specifically, these aircraft have ‘a maximum cruise speed of 50 km/h (31 mph), has a maximum altitude of 200 meters (656 feet) and has a flight time of 15 minutes.’ It’s got all the glowing lights on it you could want for a flying saucer sighting.[7]
Why You Should Care
The world in recent years, has witnessed a change in government attitudes to the possibility of the existence of flying saucers. With these ‘vehicles’ capable of performing aerial maneuvers and operating at velocities which aren’t in the wheelhouse (yet) of our planet.
That poses a threat of course. But it also excites the military-industrial complex types of major nations. Those that lust after the possibilities of technological advancement and superiority which might spring forth from a UFO that landed or crashed.
Any nation which was to obtain by reverse engineering of an alien craft, or by ‘gift’ of an alien visitor, an overwhelmingly superior technology over other nations, would literally rule the planet.
Any private enterprise concern which could obtain exclusive access to such technology, would gain wealth and power that would dwarf all the mega-multinational corporations combined.
On a religious and societal basis, undisputed proof of intellectually and technologically extraterrestrial intelligent life would rock the foundations of faith, and the structure of society.
When the nonsense is blown off the data, when the fantasies are separated from the facts of Unidentified Flying Objects, there remain many possibilities. There are many questions, and perhaps many terrors that are to come.
So, to quote the end line in the 1951 movie, The Thing, ‘Keep watching the skies.’
[1] CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 9/29/10 https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/archive/news_archive/nu2010/201502/t20150215_139920.shtml
[2] China using artificial intelligence to detect UFOs because it can ‘think outside the box’ The Independent 6/7/21 https://www.the-independent.com/tech/china-ufo-artificial-intelligence-military-b1860974.html
[3] Epoch Times, September 19, 2024 News https://gaodawei.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/2024-ufos-sighted-across-china-tianjin-airport-disrupted/
[4] THE WORLD OF CHINESE https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/06/close-encounters-inside-the-curious-world-of-chinas-alien-hunters
[5] IBID.
[6] Chinese Military Said to Be Using AI to Track an Increase in “Unidentified Air Conditions.”
TIM MCMILLAN AND MJ BANIAS·JUNE 4, 2021https://thedebrief.org/china-confirms-it-has-its-own-ufo-task-force/
[7] ELECTRIC VTOL NEWS https://evtol.news/shenzhen-ufo-flying-saucer-technology-ufo-evtol