[FPSPACE] First Chinese launch

[James Oberg]

Uncatalogued Chinese space/rocket launches remains a topic needing more 
investigation.

"Sky spirals" in China, popularly attributed to UFOs (or “wormholes” as 
below) have long been associated with missile launch failures or venting 
orbiting boosters – but sometimes the exact identification still eludes 
researchers.


But these wide-area mass-witness events seem to have made a major impact on 
Chinese popular views of UFOs.



I’ve written about the visual phenomena at various times:



“Great East Coast UFO” of August 1986 – The Space Solution

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/great_east_coast_ufo_of_august_1986/





Sky Dragons Behind the Media Curtain: UFOs in China (space.com, 14 January 
2000)

http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/ufo_china_000126.html

July 26, 1977 and July 24, 1981 and August 27, 1987 sky spirals



Spacecraft Activity as "UFOs" (‘Sky and Telescope’, Feb 1988)

http://www.jamesoberg.com/88_sky-tel_ufo.pdf



Close encounters with satellites (‘Astronomy’, July 2002)

http://www.jamesoberg.com/2002julycloseencounters.pdf



Now there’s a spectacular OLD videotape that’s just come to light (I wonder 
if the date has been garbled slightly, see below):



Strange Aerial Phenomena in China UFO Wormhole? -MUST SEE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNHEmrjRe5Q&feature=player_embedded#





Witness: "25Aug 1988, 9pm, we were chatting outside when we suddenly saw a 
circle of light towards the Northwestern sky. After it appeared, it grew 
from small to big. The light swirled clockwise then counter-clockwise. We 
were stunned - what were those, had never seen before. The first impression 
was it had nothing to do with the weather. Maybe it's something from beyond 
the sky or some kind of flying saucer."

This, is the video that the Hei He (Black River) Weather Bureau 
painstakingly preserved for 20 years. It was too long ago and the tape is a 
little blurred but we can feel the moment when people saw that how affected 
they must be. From the recording we can see that this was an extremely grand 
and beautiful phenomenon in the sky. A light rising at high speed, followed 
by swirls and expansion, abnormally bright.

And the oddest was during the swirls there was once it obviously changed 
direction. From clock-wise to counter clockwise. This amazing moment was 
something one couldn't see from its pictures. It is also something we had 
not imagined of when we do the computer simulation.


Witness: " For many days this was the main topic among the people. Because 
it appeared on the first day, the second... it appeared continuously for 5 
days. So the people debated about it for a long time. Most of ..."

(1.43):
"Most of them leaning towards whether it was Soviet Union trying to destroy 
their nuclear weapons, and whether it'll affect their own livelihood." It 
was 1988 and Soviet Union was beginning to approach dissolution. The Cold 
War was going to end soon. It is true that it had destroyed their nuclear 
weapons then but to do that you don't just throw that stuff up in the sky. 
The power of nuclear weapons are also very great in the air and to do that 
it meant it had been detonated. ..

(2:23)
If Soviet Union had really done that, it's own people will be affected. No 
one in the world will allow that. Be it the United States or the European 
Union would have used all kinds of probes to detect it (here he went on to 
explain the proper way to dispose of nuclear weapons)...(3:15) Let's see the 
video again. First, I think it's really mysterious. 2nd, it's really 
beautiful. Esp towards the end - it was initially swirling this way and 
suddenly..."

(3:35)
... and suddenly with a method that one can't even describe, it swirled in 
the opposite direction with a beautiful tail. If this is not an UFO but a 
ball of flame, you'll be amazed by the human imagination. However, the 
mysterious part of all this is it is not something we have commonly come to 
know of in aviation or fireworks. It is something that was accidentally 
videotaped and been hanging in suspense for more than 20 years. what is it 
exactly?... (End)





Youtube comments:



TheCurrentAffairs (1 month ago) --my new post gave few links about new 
sighting of this phenomenon in 2005, just above this post...it is in 
mandarin so I dont know if you can understand it or not, but in the video 
some very prominent government officials and the chief designer of the 
Chinese Long March rocket series has given definitive answer about this 
"wormhole": impossible to be any rocket launches, because if they actually 
were, they would have known it. And its flying characteristics doesnt fit 
rocket launch at all



On 25th of September 2005, pilots on China Southern Airline flight 6358 
captured this phenomenon again on video, and by numerous witnesses on the 
ground. IT IS BACK!!!

watch those(videos in Mandarin, but you get the idea):
part1. watch?v=1Ph4uCXoswA
part2. watch?v=TbZiErebeD8
part3. watch?v=H2xA1ue-Ers



Guys, I discovered something very strange about this phenomenon: It always 
happens on 25th!

Let's examine the time of famous sightings:

(1)25/09/1971: China, wide area
(2)25/07/1981: China, Southwest
(3)25/08/1988: China, Northeast
(4)25/09/2005: China, Northeast

during these intervals it has occurred more than 13 times.....I still need 
help to find out the date when it happened in Russia, but I bet it is on the 
25th as well....someone got info on that and share plz?



ninghuangtoronto (1 week ago) Show Hide --I witnessed the exact same event 
in the summer of 1995 in southwestern china. The video is 100% true!  the 
event I witnessed happened at 22:00-22:20, July 26th.1995. Millions of 
Chinese reported to see that.