- An object was filmed lighting up the sky like a massive torch last night in China
- Residents were baffled as they wondered if aliens were visiting the country
- An expert claimed the footage could be showing the trail of a rocket motor
A mysterious light was spotted in China last night, leaving residents baffled.
Witnesses shared pictures and videos of an identified object appearing to light up the night sky like a massive torch, seen above the regions of Beijing, Chongqing, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia at about 6:45pm local time.
A UFO expert claimed that the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor.
Witnesses shared pictures and videos of an object lighting up the night sky like a massive torch, seen above Beijing, Chongqing, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia at about 6:45pm
A leading UFO expert claimed that the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor
The series of perplexing videos were posted yesterday on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo as stunned net users discussed what it could be.
They described the two-minute phenomenon as bright white rays shaped either like a ‘massive tail’ or an ‘artificial light’ beaming from the clouds and slowly moving across the sky.
‘Aliens are coming!’ said one user on Weibo.
Net users described the two-minute phenomenon as bright white rays shaped either like a ‘massive tail’ or an ‘artificial light’ beaming from the clouds, sparking a UFO scare
‘Is the UFO leaving China after celebrating its national holiday?’ another asked, referring to last week’s Golden Week holiday.
A military magazine editor and blogger by the name of Weaponmagazine-Xiaoning said the footage could be of Chinese military testing a top secret hypersonic aircraft, DF-ZF. The hypersonic glide vehicle was previously known by the Pentagon as WU-14.
However, officials in China have yet to confirm the latest round of testing.
Residents in Beijing were also startled by a similar sighting on April 27, when a strange beam of light was spotted in the night sky, said to be caused by a rocket launch from Taiyuan’s satellite launch centre.
Leading UFO expert Nigel Watson said the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor
A military magazine editor and blogger by the name of Weaponmagazine-Xiaoning said the footage could be of Chinese military testing a top secret hypersonic aircraft
Leading UFO expert Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of the First World War, told MailOnline that the footage looked like the trail of a rocket motor, similar to the phenomenon seen following a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on Sunday night.
‘In both cases they are night launches where the rocket exhaust gases look very spectacular and can easily make people think this is a UFO,’ Mr Watson pointed out.
‘Fortunately, these are examples of terrestrially produced out-of-this-world spectaculars, not the work of the notorious big-eyed greys of UFO legend,’ he added.
Source www.dailymail.co.uk
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