BANGKOK POST
MARS
Chinese pilot encounters
UFO while trying to land
Beijing: AFP
drmed Chinese pilot try
to land his plane in south-
Guizhou last month
himself on a collision
Shot with another air
raft but a brightly-coloured
report seen yesterday
Boeing 737's anti-colli-
iontystem detected a strange
object two nautical miles from
he plane and flying directly
owards it as the pilot flew at
,400 metres while preparing
gland at Guiyang airport, the
Vanfang Daily said.
Before the pilot's eyes, the
biect mutated from a lozenge
a round shape and changed
olour from yellow to red as it
mawathi nautical mile of
ing off the 737's
the report said.
.
mained on the plane's radar
screen for another hour before
disappearing into the Dushan
mountains on Guizhou's bor
der with southern Guangxi, it
said.
The airport control tower re-
ported no other planes in the
area at the time and, after con-
sulting with the relevant de-
partments, the local authori-
ties concluded that the pilot
had met with an unidentified
flying object (UFO), the news-
paper said. The incident hap-
pened one morning in Febru-
ary, it said.
A similar mutating UFO was
spotted in a forest north of
Guiyang in November. it said.
China has recorded more
than 5,000 sightings of UFOs,
or one eighth of all those spot-
ted. around the world.
The couples
ternational conferencet
subject here last Auguurg
ing closer monitoring of the
irection and landed safely at skies for extraterrestrial
he airport, but the object re-spacecraft.
quickly changed,