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Chinese airport shut down after UFO flies overhead

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 10 Jul 2010 2:04 User comments (49)

Chinese airport shut down after UFO flies overhead China shut down the Xiaoshan Airport early this morning after a UFO flew through the night sky, leaving a bright trail of light in its wake.
Over 30 flights had to be redirected or cancelled.

The UFO was first seen flying over the Zhejiang provincial capital Hangzhou.

Witnesses called local authorities claiming they had seen a "comet-like" fireball in the sky.

Says one witness: "The thing suddenly ran westwards fast, like it was escaping from something."

Some experts have already said the sight was debris from U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, and Chinese officials have stayed mum, given the "military" connection.


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49 user comments

110.7.2010 14:26

That does not look anything like a missile dumb asses

210.7.2010 14:35

Norway sighting was also deemed a missle . Thats always the excuse they give to try and cover up the truth . How can we be the only intelligent life form in the entire galaxy .

310.7.2010 16:15

Originally posted by Hyasuma:
That does not look anything like a missile dumb asses
My thoughts exactly. Last time I checked, flames don't exert from the FRONT of the nosel, esspecially if it's moving in the same direction. They even said it was debris, not the missile itself. Lol, never seen debris move like is was a jet before. I'm tired of these so called idiotic "experts". What the hell gives them the right to keep these secrets from the world. Someone needs to kick some asses in Area 51.
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410.7.2010 17:27

Alien or missile my ass,it's noth'n more than space junk re entering,as for intelligent life there ain't none on this planet apart from the world cup predicting octopuss

510.7.2010 18:18
WHATEVER777
Unverified new user

Space debris?If it was it should be falling down instead of traveling horrizontal like that..Well it sure does look wierd anyway.Pretty Dam dramatic for a UFO wouldnt ya say?WTF Whatever!!

610.7.2010 18:50

even IF it was a UFO they would never admit to it

710.7.2010 19:10

Originally posted by hooter007:
even IF it was a UFO they would never admit to it
And thats a big if .

810.7.2010 19:25

Along time ago in a place far far away. Sorry had to do some sort of Star Wars reference. I kinda think the first one does look a bit like a missile coming apart but hell I'm no expert.

910.7.2010 19:34

bam431, i agree as it appears to be space debris as it reminds me of the columbia accident that killed 7 crewmen. the 2nd picture reminds me of a comet because of the wide tail & appears to be above the clouds because a cloud appears to be between the tail & ground.

1010.7.2010 20:23

Dear Aliens,

Please destroy my govt ( that would be the United States Govt) there dumb ass's and are not worth two shits anyways.

Thanks would be greatly appreciated.

p.s.

Can i get a ride to the store when your done ....

Thanks

1110.7.2010 20:27

Originally posted by WHATEVER777:
Space debris?If it was it should be falling down instead of traveling horrizontal like that..Well it sure does look wierd anyway.Pretty Dam dramatic for a UFO wouldnt ya say?WTF Whatever!!
Just to let ya know.. debris from space is never falling straight down.. that would mean it is straight up from you. its moving out in space so when it hits gravity its still moving in that same direction. thats the reason from the angle of approch when the space shuttle comes in.. or like they say you would never even come close to the ground since your comming in to fast you would keep going right back out into space..

1210.7.2010 22:12

UFO != aliens

1310.7.2010 22:24
junorjankins
Unverified new user

Originally posted by 1nsan3:
Dear Aliens,

Please destroy my govt ( that would be the United States Govt) there dumb ass's and are not worth two shits anyways.

Thanks would be greatly appreciated.

p.s.

Can i get a ride to the store when your done ....

Thanks

shit will you grab me a swisher and drop it through my chimney?good lookin out

1410.7.2010 22:59

its an aircraft of some sort, at least the top picture is. the bottom picture seems unrelated.

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1511.7.2010 00:02

its superman dressed in white lol

1611.7.2010 04:08

UFO? missile? space junk?

maybe it's a Spy Satellite to keep taps on billion and billion and billion people in China.

1711.7.2010 04:48

Wouldn't suprise me if it is a out of control missile,probably was running windows when it bsod'd & were seeing the end result :p

1811.7.2010 06:17
KSI xKilo
Unverified new user

They just said it was nothing more then a weather balloon

1911.7.2010 07:47

Damn silly aliens and their damned crappy interstellar spacecraft!


Way to keep tabs on the Earth guys!

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2011.7.2010 09:43

Originally posted by DXR88:
its an aircraft of some sort, at least the top picture is. the bottom picture seems unrelated.
No shit?????? duh its a ufo of course its an aircraft lol
hehe just messin with ya

2111.7.2010 11:33

Originally posted by hooter007:
even IF it was a UFO they would never admit to it
UFOs and the general Chinese population DO NOT mix, and there shall be no inter-breeding of such life forms, would put a serious dent in the Darwin Awards! If the aliens (haha) are this clumsy and get caught, they don't need to screw things up even more worse than what they are now. Pack up and go home!!


2212.7.2010 02:27

Just to let everyone know, unless you study this stuff and have credentials to back it up, the object remains an unidentified flying object.

2312.7.2010 03:42

it looks like a Jet engine blow out. but its to hard to tell because the only related Photo is blurred by a Cheap Chinese Camera.

Ive seen some very weird shit in my day, so this isn't WOW material.

Ive seen a Ball of light yellowish/green, that would appear to move abnormally fast at just 3 feet off the ground. weird but kinda cool.

Had a old B&W TV in a cabinet that would turn itself on & off out of no where,even unplugged. Massive amounts of electricity build up explain that on though. a Giant tree never attacked me tough so i assume Poltergeist wasn't to blame :).

2412.7.2010 10:28

Nah it's Kim's Disco machine coming to visit all the way from North Korea...Sure he was too high and off course but that's good ol North Side Kim!


2512.7.2010 12:12

I dont get it, do people not understand the words "falling" and "crossing" ?

2612.7.2010 14:55

Earth rotational speed CCW = 1040mph. ICBM flying at Mach 4 CW = 2,640mph .
An ICBM flying at 2,640 CW mph breaking into the Earths outer atmosphere at an opposing 1,040 CCW mph will effectively be traveling 3,680 mph. Perfectly represented in the top picture.
Objects from outer space do not fall straight down.

An ICBM would start breaking apart when it hit our outer atmosphere which is around 328,083 feet up. The pull of gravity is 33 (feet per-second-per-second). Someone else can do the math on how long it would take for it to hit the ground.

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2713.7.2010 15:15

who says we're intelligent.

Originally posted by RastaDave:
Norway sighting was also deemed a missle . Thats always the excuse they give to try and cover up the truth . How can we be the only intelligent life form in the entire galaxy .

2813.7.2010 15:26

Holy Shit!! Hide your Reese's Pieces!! E.T.'s back!!! Boy is he gonna be pissed that we switched from rotary and touch tone phones to all digital cell phones. Try using those bigass fingers on my Centro's keypad you little bastard! Aint no speak and spells left. You'll be saying ouch when I stick my stylus in your fuqin eye!

2913.7.2010 15:45

Btw am I the only one who sees that other penumbra effect. This is evidence of a wedge shaped craft.

p.s. how do I submit a photo

3013.7.2010 18:17
lissenup2
Inactive

Originally posted by scorpNZ:
Alien or missile my ass,it's noth'n more than space junk re entering,as for intelligent life there ain't none on this planet apart from the world cup predicting octopuss
Though I disagree with the space debris part.............I gotta say, your comment about intelligent life and the octopus was the funniest sh*t I've read in a long time. Good laugh.

3113.7.2010 18:48

Originally posted by SoulGLOW:
how do I submit a photo

Go to google/imageshack ect, get photo up, right click on photo, go to properties, copy the url,
click on
for your next message and paste [img]>>in here<<[/img]

3213.7.2010 21:46
tkrazy
Unverified new user

*bleep* X flies. Molder and Scully.

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3314.7.2010 01:18

Maybe someone was trying to take something outta the country and the commies didn't want that to happen so they scrambled fighters and shot down a aircraft then used Aliens as a cover for a flaming plane and a closed airport. Likely not but just putting it out there.

3414.7.2010 02:13

"And here's hoping that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
Coz there's bugger-all down here on Earth!"

From Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

3514.7.2010 03:36

Originally posted by tkrazy:
*bleep* X flies. Molder and Scully.
Talking of no intelligent life, watch the language. Plus we have a saying around this site - if you have nothing of value to [post, don't post.

3614.7.2010 20:48
YokoOhNo
Inactive

Well, all of you extra bright scientists out there, just say it is beautiful and it is a mystery? Wish we could figure out what it was, where it came from and identify it for sure. This isn't anything to argue about, it is just beautiful and mysterious. That's it! K, homes?

3714.7.2010 20:57
YokoOhNo
Inactive

Originally posted by creaky:
Originally posted by tkrazy:
*bleep* X flies. Molder and Scully.
Talking of no intelligent life, watch the language. Plus we have a saying around this site - if you have nothing of value to [post, don't post.
Cool!

3816.7.2010 19:08

I wonder if theres a mothership nearby?
i'm hoping to get beamed up any day now.

3917.7.2010 02:53
Doc727
Unverified new user

I blew up the top photo. It looks like a smeared picture of a landing Lear Jet to me. I can even see the jetstream, & the reflection of the verticle stabalizer. The smeared bright light underneath is most likely the after effect of moving the camera, which it visible by the double exposed towers. The light itself are the landing lights, every plane has them!

4017.7.2010 15:06

YOU EARTHINGS SEE NOTHING I SAY....LOOK INTO MY EYE AND YOU WILL FORGET>>>LOOK HARDER>>>>LOOK AGAIN>>>OK,OK that should be enough, hard to forget eh? See you at the reunion at 51 later this year.....

4118.7.2010 21:16
bittybizzel77
Unverified new user

Falling space debris doesn't change direction. There's no way that we can tell just by that video. I happen to believe in in that ET is out there, but that doesn't automatically mean I believe this video is of aliens. Chances are it's some Chinese military exercise. I doubt any other country would be there. If it is alien, then why not? Anybody that truely believes alien life doesn't exist doesn't realize just how emmense our galaxy is let alone the entire universe. Why would they be here? Why do we go to the north pole to study worms that live in ice? Why do we strive on cataloging every species we find on earth? Science. Knowledge. Understanding. Any advanced culture would be the same way, and if they can make it here then then they are much, much more advanced that the clever monkeys we call humans.

426.10.2010 20:52
MathesonKwik
Unverified new user

Well some scientists think the odds of that new planet they found, the one in the "goldy-locks" zone, having life on it is close to 100 percent.

It's called Gliese 581G and it's about 20 lightyears away.

So you'd have to be naieve to think that, if we've already found one there aren't more and that one of them wouldn't have someone else intelligent on it.

437.10.2010 08:55

Thinking we were the only life in all this would be far more scary than the fact that there are many more life forms who have been around alot longer than us

447.10.2010 11:54

There'll be life on other planets for sure... and they'll be dinosaurs! :P




Some people forget how long evolution takes. Simple timing unfortunately narrows the odds for intelligent life down a fair bit. Heck, multicellular lifeforms have only been around about 400-500 million of the 4 1/2 billion years of life on this planet. Most of the story is about bacteria! :)

457.10.2010 14:34

Originally posted by Jemborg:
There'll be life on other planets for sure... and they'll be dinosaurs! :P
only until we get there and bombard the planet and go whip out the stragglers, but somethings amiss....Plot line for Jurassic Park 4.

468.10.2010 08:53

Originally posted by DXR88:
Originally posted by Jemborg:
There'll be life on other planets for sure... and they'll be dinosaurs! :P
only until we get there and bombard the planet and go whip out the stragglers, but somethings amiss....Plot line for Jurassic Park 4.
How about AVATAR2: Gaiasaurous!

4727.10.2010 10:53
shannon0420
Inactive

lots and lots UFOs out there

4810.1.2011 02:03
The Realest
Unverified new user

it looks like a Tr3b in the top picture... the second picture looks very much like an object rentering the atmosphere. its deff a fast mover hell, maybe its the aurora! lol i believe its the united states tr3b astra, black project, and there keeping tabs on the chinks, for when we go to war. with them.

4918.3.2011 08:03
wizza
Unverified new user

was down the beach saturday 12/3/2011 time around 11 /12pm newcastle nsw Australia. it was in line with moon going dowm . ruffly in western sky ,very long bright blue tail very intence very close and very large last a half second or so. not a falling star could anyone tell me what it was my thoughts were a comet,or debris burning up in earths atomsphere thank you hope to hear back

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