UFO visits Shanghai infrequent

Gu Jia
2006-11-16

ALL of the recent reports on unidentified flying objects in Shanghai have been false, and it has been seven years since the city received its last valid UFO report, a local newspaper said.

Four UFOs appeared over the city and its neighboring area in 1987, 1990, 1991 and 1999, Wu Jialu, director with the city's newly established UFO Research Center, told Labor Daily. Wu, an expert in aviation, has been working at the Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute for 30 years, the report said.

They were acknowledged as UFOs as no physics theory could explain their actions in the air, Wu said.

The center, a non-government organization, has videos and recordings of the four UFO incidents and reports from thousands of witnesses. "They were not performances or illusions," Wu said.

Wu said he could still clearly recall the flying object he saw seven years ago, which were moving in a way that couldn't be explained by aviation technologies.

"It was visible for about 10 minutes," Wu said.

"There have been at least 280 UFO sightings since 1999," Wu said. "However, all the reports were proved false later as they were just light reflections on buildings, balloons or kites."

The latest UFO sighting came from the city's north Baoshan area on October 31. It was later confirmed as a balloon launched by the local weather bureau to gather temperature and humidity statistics.