September 11th UFO Sighting In China Comes to Light...Now?

The internet is flooding with news of a UFO sighting which shut down an Airport in China.. The incident happened Septmemer 11th, and I'm wondering why it's blowing up now..

Ninemsn.com- The US has long laid claim to being the world's UFO superpower — now China is giving it a run for its money.

A major Chinese airport was closed for an hour after an unidentified flying object was spotted overhead on September 11, according to ABC America.

Now footage of the alleged UFO has been posted online and received more than 200,000 hits on YouTube.

It shows a bright light darting across the night sky for around 30 seconds, before disappearing.

Authorities cancelled three flights from Beijing and Shanghai, and two more had to be diverted to other airports.

The incident at Baotou in the north-eastern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia is the eighth UFO sighting in just three months.

The first came at the end of June, now believed to have been a missile test.

Another incident on July 7 in the eastern Hangzhou region caused a media frenzy.

The crew on board a plane coming into land at the region's Xiaoshan airport reported seeing a UFO.

Authorities immediately closed the airport and 18 flights were cancelled.

An hour earlier residents nearby had spotted a UFO overhead — they took photos of the incident that were published in the local media.

Authorities later confirmed it was a test at a nearby military base.

The Chinese government has denied the September 11 incident took place at all.

The other sightings were in the eastern Hunan, Shandong and Jiangsu regions, and the north-western Xinjiang region.

UFO Closes Down Chinese Airport! What!

ABC News- An unidentified flying object (UFO) forced Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China to cease operations on July 7. A flight crew preparing for descent first detected the object around 8:40 p.m. and notified the air traffic control department. Aviation authorities responded within minutes, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi.

Eighteen flights were affected. Though normal operations resumed an hour later, the incident captured the attention of the Chinese media and sparked a firestorm of speculation on the UFO's identity.

"It is a hidden U.S. bomber flying toward China," one Internet user wrote on Monday. Another wrote on Sunday night, "In my opinion, the UFO is neither a U.S. missile nor a Russian satellite. Suggestions that it is extraterrestrial are even more preposterous. Everyone, use your head. This is clearly a man-made phenomenon. Would the U.S. or Russia risk provoking China's anger by firing a missile or satellite rocket in Chinese skies, without warning? I believe the Chinese military is responsible for the UFO. It is a new missile or aircraft being tested out."

Fueling speculations further, Hangzhou residents released photos, taken in the afternoon before the delays, of a hovering object bathed in golden light and exhibiting a comet-like tail. Less than an hour before the Xiaoshan airport shut down, residents said they also saw a flying object emitting red and white rays of light.

Resident Ma Shijun was taking a nighttime stroll with his wife when he saw the object.

"I felt a beam of light over my head. Looking up, I saw a streak of bright, white light flying across the sky, so I picked up the camera and took the photo. The time was 8:26 p.m. However, whether the object was a plane, or whether it was Xiaoshan Airport's UFO, I don't have a clear answer," Ma told the Xinhua news agency.

The photos taken by Hangzhou residents may be unrelated to the UFO that shut down Xiaoshan Airport. According to Hangzhou meteorological authorities, residents in the afternoon probably saw light reflecting off of an airplane. As for Ma's nighttime photo, Beijing Planetarium curator Zhu Jing told Xinhua that the object looks just like a plane shining its strobe lamps.

For now, the UFO's identity remains shrouded in mystery. A spokesman from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) confirmed to ABC News that the matter is under investigation. He declined to disclose further details. A day after the sighting, however, an anonymous source told China Daily that authorities already discovered the identity of the UFO after an investigation but could not publically disclose the information because "there was a military connection." An official explanation is expected to be released on Friday, the source said.

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