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If we assume that the vision of a floating city in the sky
that was seen in Foshan by thousands of people was just
some kind of optical illusion, I find it highly coincidental
that the same vision is seeing hundreds of miles away a few
days later in another city called Xiong'an, also witnessed
by thousands of people.
NARRATOR: Could thousands of people across China
have really witnessed some type of alien base
or mothership floating in the sky?
And if so, might it be evidence of extraterrestrials
making their presence known?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
there have been many more cases of alien entities appearing
in the skies above China--
cases that the government could not ignore.
Zhejiang province, China, July 7, 2010.
Just after 8:40 PM, the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport,
which serves over 70,000 passengers a day,
is suddenly shut down.
All outbound flights are grounded,
and inbound flights are diverted to nearby airports.
The cause of the shutdown was an unidentified flying object
seen streaking across the night sky
by a flight crew preparing for descent.
Xiaoshan Airport is one of the largest in China,
and that's very important.
It's a very busy airport.
What happened on July 7 is that a pilot
from an incoming passenger airplane
noticed something very unusual coming towards him.
He notified the ground crew, and the airport was shut down,
because a comet-like object was basically
speeding towards the airport.
There was a trail behind it.
It was a glowing, oval-shaped object.
NARRATOR: The object was also witnessed and photographed
by numerous Hangzhou residents.
When the UFO was seen, all hell broke loose.
Flights were diverted.
The military was contacted to see
if they were test flying anything in the area,
which they weren't.
This is the third such incident in five years in China
where the presence of a UFO has either shut down an airport
or caused havoc and amazement amongst the populace.
And it's clearly something that the Chinese government want
to shut down and play down.
It could also be due to the fact that the Chinese
have realized they're not in control of their airspace.
Somebody else is.
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INTERPRETER: The Xiaoshan event is only one
of the events of this kind.
The same thing happened in Guizhou province.
At that time, the pilots were instructed to avoid the UFO,
ground their aircrafts, and returned to the air
after the event, which can provide
evidence of the existence of the UFO phenomenon.
NARRATOR: While many in the United States
view the UFO phenomena as distinctly American,
recent surveys have shown that roughly half
of the 1.4 billion Chinese people
believe in UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
And ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that, despite the Chinese government's dismissal
of recent UFO events, it now appears
they, too, are taking an interest
in otherworldly phenomena.
It's incredibly popular in China
to be a member of a UFO community
that's trying to make contact with extraterrestrial beings.
The Chinese government is closely monitoring this,
and in fact, they're financing some of these research groups.
So one wonders-- is the Chinese government
starting to view our contact with extraterrestrial beings
as something simply too strong to deny?
NARRATOR: Could recent events be forcing the Chinese government
to take a greater interest in examining
possible extraterrestrial encounters?
Encounters that they have secretly known about for years?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest that China's effort to manufacture the world's
largest radio telescope is an explicit mission
towards the search for alien life.