Third UFO-Related Airport Shutdown In China This Year
China's People's Daily Online is reporting that Hohhot Air Traffic Management Bureau instruments detected an unidentified flying object (UFO) approximately 25 miles east of Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 8 p.m. on September 11.
As a result, traffic was halted at Baotou Airport between 9:14 and 10 p.m. Three inbound flights from Beijing and Shanghai were instructed to circle the airport awaiting clearance to land and two flights (Air China Flight 1107 from Beijing and Juneyao Airlines Flight 1137 from Shanghai) were rerouted to other airports.
"(Baotou Airport) received a notice from the Hohhot Air Traffic Management Bureau about the appearance of a UFO. To guarantee security, the aircraft heading for the airport had to land at secondary airports. Otherwise, it may have led to collisions," said a Baotou Airport spokeswoman.
Once again, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China is using the term "UFO" without apology. Translators responsible for preparing the English language version of the newspaper's site can't be unaware of the term's implications in the West, however technically accurate it may be to describe an airborne object that defies identification as a UFO, so we applaud them for their sober coverage.
It's difficult to imagine newspapers of record in the United States dealing as straightforwardly with the topic and as comfortably with the term as People's Daily does.
Previous China UFO coverage at Technorati
- More UFO Love For China, This Time In Zhejiang Province (September 6, 2010) - Haining City television reporters capture distant UFO on camera
- Chinese astronomer claims some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin (August 27, 2010) - Respected member of Chinese scientific community makes no bones about the existence of UFOs
- Time magazine debunks China UFOs, ignores obvious questions (August 23, 2010) - Time explains away China UFOs as private airplanes flying without flight plans
- China's second mass UFO sighting in two weeks (July 21, 2010) - Lantern-like objects hover over Chongqing's Shaping Park
- UFOs cause flight delays in China (July 12, 2010) - Xiaoshan Airport in Zeijiang Province shut down for several hours
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