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.

Since posting the article about the Malaysia UFO, and the submitted blurry photograph as a separate post, I have received emails from readers in Malaysia who feel that I dismissed the Malaysia UFO photo too quickly.

I posted the one reader submitted photo on my blog and dismissed it as a cloud.

Rarely will I post photographs into my articles. Photographs can be easily manipulated. I do sometimes post photos to showcase locations that I write about. Sometimes, I post them as examples rather than evidence.  On occasion, I will provide a link to readers to view a photo on another website.

To be fair, I am not a meteorologist, so my assessment of the object as a cloud or sun dog is only the evaluation of an amateur. Also, I am not a photographic expert, though I see what I see and form my own opinion as a result.

While mulling over the decision over whether to post reader submitted items, I had to ask myself if I actually know what a UFO from somewhere in outer space looks like. No, I don’t. I do know what Hollywood’s various representations of a UFO looks like. During a recent debate on the subject, I asserted that if extraterrestrials exist and if they are so technologically advanced to travel here, they could make their airship resemble an airplane to stay under the radar, so to speak. On the other hand, maybe they are really tiny and their craft is no bigger than a shoebox.

To be fair, most, if not all of us, really have no clue what a UFO from outer space might look like.

Last night, a reader in Malaysia contacted me and provided four items: a blog post, a Borneo Post article, a clearer photo of the Malaysia UFO and a zoomed in version of the object in question. Rather than incorporate those items into an article, I decided to publish reader submitted evidence in another location on my blog.

On the upper left side of your screen is a new section within Paranormal Old Pueblo: Reader Submissions. A link under this heading reads: “July 2010“.

I will do my best to keep this section updated for those who wish to submit photos or other evidence. I don’t guarantee that I will devote an article to the evidence submitted, however.

You can submit whatever you would like related to the paranormal: UFOs, Ghosts, Cryptozoology, Psychic Phenomena, Lost Treasure, etc.

To submit any evidence you would like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email me.

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.