There’s no new information, just a commentary.

Last week, a UFO in China shut down the Xiaoshan airport. This incident coincided with the anniversary of the Roswell incident.

Roswell Daily Record, 7/8/47

On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Daily Record chose to print the strange press release issued by the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF).

Due to the resulting embarrassment of releasing such news, mainstream media has stayed away from these types of stories, calling them “offbeat” news, if they report on them at all.

On July 8, 2010, an army of bloggers ran with the China UFO story released by Xinhua News.

People from around the world have taken an interest in this story, which raises the question of why the mainstream media has chosen to run with the story now. Is it due to the popularity of the story? Would they like an explanation from China to get on with it already?

The Christian Science Monitor gives kudos to the mainstream media for not reporting the news of the China UFO for an entire week.

Another point raised by The Christian Science Monitor is that we must view this event with a level of skepticism. Absolutely, yes. I think that most people are keeping their wits about them.

Bloggers have written posts for many years on offbeat subjects: ghosts, UFOs, monsters, and psychic phenomena. People read them. It’s nothing new to us. Many readers read the stories from a skeptical viewpoint.

There has been a high level of genuine curiosity about the event in China. There has not been an Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds style panic. I do believe that we are all handling the information, or the lack of it, quite well.

Kudos to bloggers for sticking to the facts on this story.

In 1947, an explanation of a weather balloon was immediately given to the world about the Roswell incident. Today, there has been no explanation after a full week from China.

Will we be upset if there’s a logical explanation that debunks the UFO theory? I don’t think so.

Will we panic if authorities in China simply say that they have no idea what it was? No.

Are we ready to be told that it was a craft filled with little green men? I don’t know.

On the anniversary of the report of the NM Roswell Crash: As reported by Xinhua News: UFO disrupts air traffic in east China

HANGZHOU, July 8 (Xinhua) — An unidentified flying object disrupted air traffic over Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, late Wednesday, the municipal government said Thursday. Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 p.m. and some flights were rerouted to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi cities, said an airport spokesman.

The airport had resumed operations and more details would be revealed after an investigation, he said.

Editor: Han Jingjing

UPDATE 1:56PM 7/8/2010

Control tower officers detected the unidentified flying object with long-range visual instruments. They immediately ordered several incoming flights to land at airports in neighboring Ningbo and Wuxi, delaying passengers for nearly four hours, the report said.They used radar to monitor the position of the object

Persons on the ground in surrounding areas also saw the object in the sky. Reports varied between witnesses viewing bright, blinking or sparkling spots in the sky.

Hangzou resident Jia Xiaoying stated to the Global Times: “I saw an extremely bright spot very high up in the sky around 8 pm. The yellow spot immediately slid through the sky and disappeared within a second.”

A government source stated that it could have been a private airplane, but police and other agencies in China continue to investigate.

It was an odd press release issued by the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information office in 1947. It stated that the personnel from the field’s 509th Bomb Group had recovered a flying disc that had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.

On July 8, 1947, The Roswell Daily Record ran with the information and published that press release:

“RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”

The next day, however, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force brought the public back down to earth by stating that it was only a radar-tracking balloon that was recovered on the ranch.

Nevermind that the day before the press release, on July 7, 1947, William Rhodes of Phoenix, Arizona took three photographs of flying discs over the Phoenix skies.

Despite multiple accounts of secret alien autopsies and strange not-of-this earth UFO debris, the matter was pretty much forgotten until 1980. The National Enquirer conducted an interview with Major Jesse Marcel, who had been involved in the debris recovery in 1947. Up until Marcel’s death in 1986, he still insisted that something from out of this world had crashed in Roswell.

As evidenced by this past weekend’s Roswell UFO Festival, the Roswell UFO Incident of 1947 continues to evoke curiosity about whether we are really alone in this vast universe.