CNN’s Headline reads:

“UFOs over China? Not quite, analyst says”

The article link reads:  http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/20/china.ufo.debunked/index.html

The article starts out by reporting:

“Those probably were not UFOs that hovered over China recently, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology analyst said.”

What this article is about is the photos of the reported UFO over China. The photos that made headlines in most mainstream media news outlets were phony. Photos were never posted here on the Tucson Citizen.

The article goes on to misinform by stating that the Chongqing UFO was sighted a day after the UFO that shut down the Xiaoshan Airport. It was sighted a week later.

The CNN comment section is buzzing about the UFO event being debunked. It was not. The photos published were debunked.

There has been no statement from China stating whether the object was, in fact, a military craft, missile, rocket or anything else.

After posting in the comments section twice about the incorrect span of time between UFO sightings, the article remains incorrect.

UPDATE 2:33 PM: The word “images” appears more in the article and a Google News search now reads: “Analyst: China UFO images likely fake”…but the Chongqing sighting still listed as a day later than the airport shutdown, not a week later.

UPDATE: 3:50 PM: Still no date correction for CNN…but it gets better! Pravda reports China UFO incident for a week ago! Pravda states it happened on July 14th!

“Last  week an Unidentified Flying Object disrupted traffic at Xiaoshan Airport in the PR China. The incident happened late last Wednesday night, July 14. 18 flights, involving 2,000 passengers were affected by the apparition, which was seen by several eye-witnesses (see photo) but which did not show up on the airport’s radar system.”

Left a comment asking them to correct the date.

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