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| Added | Thu, 18/01/2024 |
| Author | July N. |
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Initial data
Residents of the capital and other parts of China saw a "glowing object" that was flying rapidly from west to east. Residents of Beijing and other parts of China reported seeing UFOs on Sunday evening. The unusual sighting caused a stir on Chinese social media – by noon
On Monday, it was the fifth most popular topic on Weibo: more than 900,000 topics were written about it. The messages began to appear on social media after people saw and photographed an unidentified flying object in the sky just after 6 p.m. on Sunday. Another gave a more detailed description, stating that the weather in Beijing was "very clear, without clouds, and then I saw a glowing object looming, but the light was not flashing."
The glowing object "had three light sources and was shaped like an isosceles triangle," the person wrote, adding that it eventually "dissipated like fog and disappeared without a trace."
UFOs have been reported by people in a number of places in China, including the nearby city of Tianjin, as well as in the central provinces of Shanxi and Shandong in the east. They described the object as a "misty ball of light" that flew rapidly from west to east and made no sound. Many who saw it noted that there were no flashing lights, so it was hardly an airplane.
Original news
Date of sighting: Jan 15, 2024
Location of sighting: Beijing, China
Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3248504/ufo-seen-over-be...
Guys, this is odd, a UFO was seen in a cloudless sky in China a few days ago. The object soon broke into three separate objects. With all this happening apparently it didn't show up on radar because no military jets were seen trying to investigate the UFOs. Now thats strange. Yes Musk does launch a lot of rockets, but over China? I guess only Elon Musk could answer that big mystery. To me this looks, acts and moves like an alien craft. It doesn't look at all like a rocket. It's an interdemensional craft, which phases in and out.
Scott C. Waring
News states:
People in the capital and other parts of China saw ‘glowing object’ that flew rapidly from west to eastResidents of Beijing and other parts of China reported seeing a UFO on Sunday evening, The unusual sighting caused a stir on Chinese social media – by noon on Monday it was the fifth most searched topic on Weibo, with more than 900,000 threads about it. Posts started appearing on social media after people saw and photographed an unidentified flying object in the sky just after 6pm on Sunday.Another gave a more detailed description, saying the weather in Beijing was “very clear, with no clouds, and then I saw a glowing object looming, but the light was not flashing”. The luminous object “had three light sources and was shaped like an isosceles triangle”, the person wrote, adding that it eventually “dissipated like a mist and disappeared without a trace”. The UFO was reported by people in a number of places in China, including the nearby city of Tianjin, as well as in the central province of Shanxi and Shandong in the east. They described the object as “a misty ball of light” that flew rapidly from west to east and made no sound. Many who saw it noted that there were no flashing lights so it was not likely to be a plane.
’UFO’ spotted by Beijing residents
Author: South China Morning Post
January 16, 2024
Hypotheses
Booster, the rocket and tracks
For UFOs often take stages of rockets, parts of space ships burning in the atmosphere, the launches of various missile technology for military purposes, etc., and traces from them. They attract attention mostly in the dark, but in the day time have a greater aura of mystery.
Formation of the track of the launch vehicle occurs in the tropopause (the layer between the troposphere and stratosphere), which sharply reduced the vertical temperature gradient. The emergence of the so-called "jellyfish" influenced by water vapor, which are subject to enhanced condensation.
Investigation
The appearance of the object is typical for a rocket launch.
The original article stated that Wang Zhuoxiao, a researcher at the Center for Astronomical Technology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said that, in his opinion, it could have been a rocket used to launch the Starlink mission, a satellite Internet constellation operated by SpaceX Elon Mask:
Wang said that the trajectory of the rocket had an inclination of 53 degrees to the south and at the halfway point it was supposed to pass over northern China. This would make it visible in Beijing and other cities at sunset or before sunrise.
He said that after putting the Starlink satellites into orbit, the rocket would have dumped excess fuel.
According to Wang, this process can scatter light, which means that a cloud could form around the rocket.
He said the rocket also had to somersault to get rid of excess fuel, which explains why the "rocket cloud" had different shapes.
The Falcon 9 rocket sent 22 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday at 3:59 a.m. local time (4:59 p.m. Beijing time).
Unfortunately, the exact time of the observation is not indicated so that this version can be definitively confirmed or refuted.
Resume
Booster, the rocket and tracks
For UFOs often take stages of rockets, parts of space ships burning in the atmosphere, the launches of various missile technology for military purposes, etc., and traces from them. They attract attention mostly in the dark, but in the day time have a greater aura of mystery.
Formation of the track of the launch vehicle occurs in the tropopause (the layer between the troposphere and stratosphere), which sharply reduced the vertical temperature gradient. The emergence of the so-called "jellyfish" influenced by water vapor, which are subject to enhanced condensation.
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