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China UFOs: Media in China blames UFO incident in Inner Mongolia on a ‘black flight’ incident

by on Nov. 14, 2010, under UFOs

Conflicting reports out of China continue related to UFO incidents that caused the shut down of airports in China.

On July 7th, airport officials in China were forced to shut down the Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou. Almost two months later, on September 11th, airport officials shut down an airport in Baotou, Inner Mongolia.

Airport officials at both airports cited UFOs as the reason for the airport shut downs. The sighting in Baotou was called a “near collision” between a UFO and a commercial passenger flight.

The Xiaoshan incident was explained away by an illegally flying private plane by China Daily on August 5th. The only explanation regarding the Bataou incident, until now, was a denial that the incident ever happened. According to ABC News,“The Chinese government had said on previous occasions that the lights claimed to be UFOs were military exercises, but the government denied the Sept. 11 incident happened at all.”

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) in Hong Kong has released an alternate explanation for the Baotou incident that never mentions that government denial. The explanation now matches the initial Xiaoshan airport explanation: “black flights” (illegally flying private planes and helicopters).

Time wrote about the “black flight” problem in mid-August to explain away the Hangzhou incident. It was stated that China’s billionaires fly off-the grid, making short-hop flights, because China’s airspace is tightly controlled by the government. The process to fly legally would take much too long for the billionaires to take off “on the fly” to match their schedules. According to Time, “Would-be flyers need to apply to several different local and national ministries and departments to get the appropriate licenses and must submit detailed flight plans to the local air-traffic-control
department at least seven working days in advance.” Therefore, the billionaires bypass the legalities. If they are caught, the fees are just pocket change for these billionaires, it was reported.

None of these articles, however, have offered an explanation as to why experienced airport officials would identify planes as ‘UFOs” as the reason for shutting down airports.

The Baotou incident was the 9th report of a UFO in China since June, with the others reporting from Hunan, Sichuan, Shandong, Shanxi, Yunnan and Zhejiang provinces and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

But wait, in another now conflicting piece of information, the SCMP now reports that the Xiaoshan Airport shut down in July was due to a military test at a nearby air force base. This conflicts with the China Daily explanation from August 5th that blamed the incident on a “black flight”. The news source also reports: “In late April, flights to Shanghai’s Pudong and Hongqiao airports were delayed or forced to be diverted after an illegal flight by a helicopter.”

SCMP does not elaborate as to why those incidents did not prompt airport officials to dub the helicopters with the UFO label in April. SCMP is regarded as a “serious” newspaper and is considered as neutral towards the government. It is also considered to be a more “establishment-leaning” publication, according to Wikipedia.

Copyright © 2010 Cherlyn Gardner Strong

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  • Robert Easterbrook

    Hi Cherlyn
    You were saying something on the 20th about the media feeding the UFO-fringe making them believe in ‘nonexistent conspiracy theories’. Well, what explanation can you offer this episde in the Chinese Media regarding reporting UFO incidents, or non-UFO incidents as the case may be?

    Regarding what else I SEE in your ‘rants’, I see important ‘commentary’, but I am not sure that see important ‘discussion’. How would you encourage important discussion to occur here on Paranormal Old Pueblo, if not in your on work but from readers?

    I lived and worked in China for almost 10 years, and saw many incidences of ‘high strangeness’. In particular, the day a UFO came down and landed on a university campus building that I was walking to, and hovered there for 10 minutes or more.

    Warm regards

    • Cherlyn Gardner Strong

      Yesterday, I had important discussion on a ghost hunting opinion piece, but rarely does that happen on UFO articles. With the China incidents, there are too many conflicting explanations from the media, which makes those sightings very intriguing to me. If the media would stay consistent with the explanations, I wouldn’t be so intrigued by them. I do understand that media is a different animal in China.

      I avoid posting pictures and videos because it is found that most of them are faked or are “obviously” something identifiable. That’s what I see spur discussion occur on other articles. I posted one video – not because I believed it to be the mass-sighted UFO in Tucson, but because it was recorded of the sky at the same time/ night as the mass sighting. A local news website posted the same video before I did. The video was captured by a local woman that most consider to be kooky. I posted it, because I wanted to see if people would agree if that was what they saw. I got slammed for that, for “damaging UFO research”, “tainting a possible investigation”, you name it. I got comments, for sure, but no discussion. Ended up that not one person saw what was indicated in the video, but they saw something familiar in the background.

      I receive emails, rather than posted comments, for one on one discussions. Perhaps because I come across as accessible.

      In my posts, I sometimes just report on UFOs without ‘ranting’. Sometimes, something gets my mind going and I post a commentary/opinion piece. I figure if someone disagrees with me, they’ll say something. As a blogger (an unpaid blogger at that), I don’t have to keep my opinion to myself.

      Also, I don’t pretend to believe every sighting out there is an alien ship, so I don’t get the folks to comment who do. They likely don’t read me that much, except to glean the information about a sighting of interest. I also don’t get the “you are nuts” comments from skeptics. Sometimes commenters will receive a reply from a skeptical person telling them that they are nuts. I also don’t write about every sighting for page views, since page views don’t equal dollar signs for me. Even if it did, I wouldn’t feel right about that kind of writing.

      I started this blog in August of 2009. I left my job in higher ed in March of this year to write full-time. Until this past July, I only posted infrequently, so I am still searching for my style and voice – and for what I want Paranormal Old Pueblo to be. I appreciate your feedback and will take it all under consideration. At this point, I don’t know what would spur meaningful discussion, but as my writing evolves, it will become clearer.

      I’ve never seen a UFO and have never became acquainted with an alien, either. Sounds like you had an interesting sighting in China. Thanks for sharing.

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