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This is a Foreign Technology Division edited translation, dated September 1983 and approved for public release. It translates Long Ruyi's article "First UFO Incident for Our Country" from the Chinese journal Hangtian (No. 4, 1982). The article describes a huge spiral-shaped UFO that some 10,000,000 people across southwest and northwest China saw on 24 July 1981. It weighs meteor, aircraft and flying saucer explanations, rejects the meteor theory, and leans toward a spy craft while calling the proof lacking.
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minutes and then quickly flew away. They also reported that it changed its direction of travel during flight and seemed to move freely, a capability which is incomparable to any man made space- craft. Some people went so far as to claim they could see its central bell-like shape as well as a row of portholes. With regard to the strange phenomena in these reports, although they cannot be categorically denounced as psychological illusions, in view of the above, it could easily be inferred that they had an alien source, but the proof is apparently lacking. At present, be- sides a few blurred photos which were taken of the 24 July 1981 UFO there is neither any other physical evidence nor any good record of a signal. Also, researchers abroad still have obtained nothing rela- tive to this kind of UFO or aliens. Nor do they include in their large collection of photos of flying saucers any such type of craft with a very distinct spiral trail. This also causes us to return to the spy plane hypothesis. It seems that this incident must be thor- oughly clarified and still waits for those who know the inside story to come forward and "make a clean breast of it". -3
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