Time Magazine Debunks China UFOs, Ignores Obvious Questions

August 23, 2010 – Last month, Technorati relayed reports of two mass UFO sightings that took place in China. On July 7, Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou rerouted traffic for several hours after detecting a UFO. Then, on July 15, “four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape” hovered over Chongqing’s Shaping park for over an hour.

Proposed explanations for the sightings have ranged from helicopters to errant military missiles but, to date, no official explanation has been advanced. Now Time magazine’s Chengcheng Jiang has weighed in with a new theory: private planes.

In an article dated August 16, Jiang observes that China’s airspace, though tightly controlled by the government, is routinely violated by wealthy pilots who prefer to fly “off the grid,” not filing flight plans. These unauthorized flights are known as hei fei, or black flights.