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Pilot’s UFO report released after 16 years
Created: 2007-7-24 16:41:45
Author:Alice Gu
“It’s moving very fast to the northeast, spraying fire-like gas and transforming into two objects, a ball and a cube.”

It’s not a line from a sci-fi movie, but from a tape recording of a conversation between a ground dispatcher and a passenger plane pilot who allegedly chased an unidentified flying object 16 years ago above Shanghai.

The tape, the only known in-flight voice recording of a UFO sighting in China, was released to the public for the first time during a UFO seminar held on Saturday in Shanghai, Beijing Legal Times reported today.

The recording has been kept by Wu Jialu, former senior engineer with the Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute. He said equipment needed to analyze the report wasn’t available until now.

“The 26-minute-long tape recording on March 18, 1991, included the pilot detecting the object, following it and eventually, he watched it disappear,” said Wu, now director general with a city’s UFO research center.

Wu played the taped conversation to the newspaper. The following is a transcript of the conversation.

Airport dispatcher (A): 3603, what did you see?

3603: I took off, flying about seven sea miles (13 kilometers) at the Course 28 degrees. I found an unidentified flying object right at my front. It was three meters to five meters in length. It’s red and it looks like it is spraying fire. It’s flying to the northeast. I turned slightly to the north and the object was farther and farther from my plane. It’s moving fast and suddenly it turned around.

I flew about 20 sea miles (37 kilometers). It is moving southeast. It’s flying lower and lower. I turned a little to the west. It turned around suddenly to the north again. It turned black.

It separated into two, one ball on the upper side and one cube below it. The two objects flew northeast for a while and then they turned to the northwest. They climbed up and disappeared. They came out, and disappeared again.

A: I got it.

A: When did you last see the object?

3603: About 6:26pm at 10 sea miles (18 kilometers) from Wuxi City.

A: Well, what’s its location then?

3603: It was right in front of me.

A: 3603, can you estimate its speed?

3603: Its speed, um, the maximum speed … … It’s difficult to say. It’s about 600 kilometers per hour to 700 kilometers per hour. I felt like it’s flying at the speed of big planes.

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Cui Yilin, a reporter with Shanghai-based Xinmin Evening News, told Beijing Legal Times that he received hundreds of calls from local residents on March 19, 1991, saying they saw a “red fire ball” over Shanghai the previous day.

“There were calls from Wusong, Xinzhuang and Bund areas. But the one that really got my attention was from Hongqiao Airport,” Cui said.

Jin Xin, an on-duty dispatcher at the navigation tower of Hongqiao Airport on March 18, 1991, told Cui that he saw the flying object, which was engulfed by red light.

“I immediately asked a pilot that was about to take off to follow the object,” Jin told the newspaper.

Jin gave a tape of the recorded conversation with the pilot to Wu after the incident.

Jin said pilot 3603 was Zhu Zhaoyuan, who flew for Jinan Airlines, which has since been taken over by China Eastern Airlines.

“He was piloting a small passenger plane when he chased the object,” Jin said. Zhu was middle-aged and an experienced pilot, Jin added.

Zhu could not be reached for comment, said the report.

Liu Yan, a researcher at Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the newspaper that more than 90 percent of UFO reports were false.

“People are easily misled by the reflection of light emitted by planes and believe they see UFO,” said Liu.
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COMMON HERITAGE: Humanity’s foray into the solar system brings out the ethical issue of what we should do if life is found in outer space. Do we send more probes to further investigate and do we have a responsibility to protect that life and allow it to develop naturally?

If robotic probes definitively find life, should we erect a “do not disturb sign” and refrain from sending further probes? Then again, what if we were to find intelligent life forms closer to the human form and not mere vegetation? Could we exercise control over the welfare of such life and who would claim that control?

See full article at:  http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/07/25/fea01.asp

A mysterious object captured in photos taken near Kaitaia is the subject of an investigation involving an international UFO expert.

New Zealand UFO researchers - UFOCUS NZ - have asked United States UFO specialist Dr Bruce Maccabee to study a series of digital photos snapped at Ahipara on April 28.

See full article at: http://www.stuff.co.nz/northland/4139098a22378.html

I found this great article on CNet news,

When Sharon Leong conducts field work, she packs a digital camera, a thermometer and an electromagnetic field meter. She isn’t a private detective or an electrician. Leong, a legal secretary by day, is an avid ghost hunter by night.

Link to full story: http://news.com.com/Believe+it+or+not+Ghost+hunters+go+high+tech/2100-1008_3-6197680.html

Hello readers,

I found an article on the net at: http://www.newswire.co.nz/main/viewstory.aspx?storyid=383350&catid=3011

Here is a copy of the text:

UFO Reporting System Developed   
7:13 am, 19 Jul 2007  

A formal reporting system has been developed for people who observe unidentified flying objects in New Zealand. 

The registry, created by the UFO Focus Research Network, encourages people to submit details of their encounters via a website.

The organisation’s spokesperson, Graham Opie, says they will also be asked a number of questions regarding the object’s appearance and speed.

He says the information will then be collated in an effort to determine whether it was a UFO.

© NewsRoom 2007

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It sounds like there is more to this, anyone have any more information?

Sci Fi Channel has announced that it has ordered UFO Hunters, a new Ghost Hunters-like reality series that will investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects and other “otherworldly experiences.”  UFO Hunters will air as part of the network’s 2007-2008 original programming line-up.

Each episode of UFO Hunters will follow a group of UFO investigators who use the latest technology to lend some credit to reports of flying saucers and space people that are often ridiculed by skeptics. 

The New York Strange Phenomena Investigators (NY-SPI) — led by co-founders Oliver Kemenczky and Ted Davis, and supported by researcher/investigator Dennis Anderson — will conduct the investigations featured on UFO Hunters, using their decades of experience to lend credibility to the different phenomena they’ll attempt to explain.

If UFO Hunters’ format sounds similar to that of Sci Fi Channel’s Ghost Hunters reality series — which follows paranormal “ghostbusters” and real-life plumbers Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson as they investigate hauntings and bizarre occurrences — that’s because its being produced by Pilgrim Films and Television, the same production company responsible for Ghost Hunters. 

Ghost Hunters executive producers Craig Piligian and Tom Thayer will also executive produce UFO Hunters.

Link: http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/sci-fi-orders-new-ghost-hunters-like-ufo-hunters-reality-series-5509.php

KOLKATA: A school in a West Bengal village is closed for the last five days, courtesy a “ghost” that resides in a haunted century-old neighbourhood house and “possesses” young girl students at will.

See full article at: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1110211

Trial was scheduled to begin on Friday for a man accused of shooting at teenagers outside of his Columbus, Ohio, home. 

The teens told police they were ghost hunting around Allen Davis’ home, which they said has the reputation of being haunted. 

Rachel Barezinsky, 17, who has family in Wintersville, was critically injured in the shooting. 

Davis is accused of firing a rifle at the five high school students last August. 

He previously pleaded not guilty to five counts of felonious assault. 

Stay with NEWS9 for continuing coverage.

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GhostlyCast Note: ALWAY ask permission before going on private property!

Hello all, I apologize for the long delay in my posts. We’ve had some new developments on the film that have taken up a lot of my time. So bare with me I’ll try to catch up, now back to our regularly scheduled program….

I guess I assumed that a Paranormal Team that has been together for 5 years have probably been to about every haunted location in the area. So, I wasn’t anticipating filming every weekend, but here we are, week number 2 and about to embark on investigation number 2.

This particular location was a residential home in rural Enumclaw Washington. The family living there have reported multiple paranormal events within the house. It seems that they had a not so nice entity that has taken up residence in the upstairs bedroom. Since that is the bedroom of one of their children, the need to call in the professionals was evident.

My team and I took the long drive from Seattle to Enumclaw to meet the Investigators at a local coffee shop. We pulled up in to the parking lot and met the founder of the team on the sidewalk. We exchanged pleasantries and he told me that there were a couple of more people that we were waiting for. While waiting we started talking about the film. At first when I approached him about doing the film it almost seemed like he was apprehensive, which is understandable. These days Documentary Filmmakers have gotten a bad wrap due to some of us that skew the films to fulfill personal agendas. But after several conversations and a shoot completed he seems to have warmed up to the idea. In fact he even told me about a intro to the film that he has been thinking about. It’s nice to see the subject of the film start to get as excited about the project as I am. But I’m getting sidetracked.

We arrived at a modest house in a very quiet neighborhood. After unloading the equipment I introduced myself to the family and we headed in to the master bedroom to do a quick interview. It seems the wife has had most of the experiences in the household but every member of the family has experienced paranormal events. Though their experiences have been throughout the entire house, it seems that most of the activity has taken place in the upstairs bedroom.

The Ghost Hunters and my team headed up there and in the dark attempted to make contact. The Investigators brought out a tool that I have never seen before. They call it a PK Board and it looks like a sundial. Basically it works the same as a Ouiji board but requires no human interaction.

While working upstairs a few odd things did happen. It seems that whatever was up there kept messing with equipment. A few of the Investigators cameras started to malfunction and batteries were being quickly drained. A member of my team was taking pictures and every time she snapped a picture of the stairs leading in to the upstairs bedroom the camera would malfunction. But if she turned slightly and took a picture of anything else, the camera would work fine.

The investigation itself turned out to be pretty rewarding. Though we didn’t see any full body apparitions I am beginning to see the mindset of the investigators. I’m starting to understand what drives them to keep going out time and time again looking for proof of ghosts. Though actual ghostly experiences are fun, simply getting in to the head of a Paranormal Investigator has proven to be fascinating.

As we were wrapping up, I got to talking to the head of the Investigators and he told me about a future investigation that would change my opinion on the Paranormal forever. It seems that a trip to the infamous Stanley Hotel was to be in my future.

Stay tuned…