Beijing Planetarium curator Zhu Jin has denied that the two flying objects swooping against Shenzhou 9 four minutes after its launch on June 16 were UFOs.
According to Zhu, who also the vice executive director of Beijing’s UFO Research Society, the two glistening objects caught onscreen during the live broadcast of China’s first manned space docking mission last Saturday, were probably birds, planes or other flying modules.
Yet Zhu elaborated that because of the temporary lack of access to the technological figures and infrared video images, it is difficult to identify the flying objects as well as to measure their velocities and actual distances to the spacecraft. The approximate-one-second television appearance of the objects is insufficient to provide any evidence backing up the UFO claims, Zhu said.
In stark contrast to Zhu’s scientific analysis, some Weibo users (China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform) were more imaginative in their assessments of the unidentified objects in the sky.
Many of them believed that the shining objects were indeed UFOs, while other bloggers suggested that the objects could be supernatural phenomena predicting disaster.
No comments:
Post a Comment