For the last couple of days, I have been reading about the Inner Mongolia UFO incident that I first brought to readers on September 13th.

The mainstream media reports have mostly been citing the People’s Daily Online as the source, as they should. People’s Daily Online was the first publication to filter the news to the U.S. on September 13th. The incident happened on Saturday, September 11th.

Tim Brosnan at Technorati covered the incident on September 21st. Both Tim and I are confused over the “late” reporting, as well as some awkward reporting by the mainstream media. This applies, as well, to both the July Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport incident and the sighting in Chongqing a week later.

Another publication has been mentioned by the mainstream media related to the Inner Mongolia UFO incident: The Sun, the notorious British tabloid.

ABC News and other mainstream media outlets took interest in the report, it is said in some sources, when The Sun reported it. Since then, it has been a media frenzy of “fresh” UFO news. Not timely, but “fresh”. My readers actually thought that this was a brand new incident, since I had reported it over three weeks ago. I reassured those who were confused that it was not.

It’s the same one, only picked up late by mainstream media sources.

I’m not seeking credit for breaking UFO news. There is usually Internet chatter before I formally post.

Instead, I am wondering when a tabloid became a source that is more trusted than UFO/paranormal bloggers. I am also wondering why my articles have been lifted and barely re-written to avoid plagiarism. Right now, I am wondering about a lot of things.

My goal is to bring interesting stories to my readers. I hope that my readers don’t take offense at my venting at something that doesn’t concern them.

Rather, I am just putting it out there for anyone who is skimming my blog for news. It is happening way too much lately.

Another thing that I have to say is that anyone who reposts my articles with barely changed words, or simply removes my name, will certainly face legal action.

According to China Daily, the incident on July 7th that caused the Xiaoshan Airport to shutdown is not that uncommon in China.

Billionaire private plane owners like Xu Weijie violate flight regulations all the time.

The fines that Xu pays for flying one of his eleven private planes illegally doesn’t make a dent in his enormous pocketbook.

China’s rich would rather pay a fine than go through the painstakingly complex process for a single flight, causing much frustration for everyone else.

Xu’s flying has caused many flights to be diverted or delayed. This past April is a good case in point. Xu’s trip to a tourism resort in Zhejang caused flights to be diverted or delayed at two Shanghai airports: Pudong and Honqiao.

Xu has been ‘punished’ for his actions, which is merely a slap on the hand. On one of his trips, his plane was temporarily taken over by local civil aviation administration (it’s okay, he has ten more planes) and he was fined the equivalent of $4,300 (USD).

Xu’s not alone in the sky. There are many more of these these defiant billionaires. China Daily reports that there are 200 planes owned by billionaires who regularly fly illegally.

There are two types of private plane owners they say, those who report to the aviation departments and those who don’t.

Xu’s excuse for illegal flying: “China’s laws only regulate public planes and military planes, and there are no specific rules regarding private planes.”

On July 7th, Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan International Airport was shut down with 20 flights diverted due to an illegally flying private plane.

That does explain the incident. Sort of.

If airports in China are regularly inconvenienced by flying billionaires, then why would Xiaoshan airport officials and the Chinese media deem the object a ‘UFO’? Additionally, why would it take a team of UFO experts to finally identify the object that shut down an entire airport as a private plane?

Who knows.

We wanted an explanation and we got one. It’s a good one.

At least it wasn’t a “weather balloon” this time.

China has been the location of 8 UFO sightings over the last couple of months. One of the sightings caused the Xiaoshan Airport to be shut down for an hour on July 7th.

Some UFOs were since identified as normal earthly objects. Others remain unidentified.

If we think that the people of China have had their fair share of major sightings, we haven’t seen anything yet, according to a researcher in China.

Professor Wang of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a theory about UFO sightings. He thinks that China could bear witness even more UFO sightings over the next two years.

Based on 39 years of research, Professor Wang discovered a pattern. He found that July and August are the best months for viewing, generally after 10:00 pm. Wang also stated that major UFO sightings tend to occur in years ending with numbers 1, 2 or 7.

Is there anything to that theory? We won’t have long to wait before we find out. The years 2011 and 2012 are just around the corner.