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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

Flying creatures. China

ID #1629971388
Added Thu, 26/08/2021
Author July N.
Sources
Phenomena
Status
Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
19.10.1998
Location: 
Хэбэй
China

In 1998, a mass observation of a certain "heavenly jellyfish"was registered in China. On October 19 of the same year, four military radar stations in Hebei Province recorded a strange radar signature hovering near a military flight school in Changzhou, about 90 miles northwest of Shanghai.

When it was discovered that there were no known civilian or military aircraft in the area, the military became quite alarmed, which caused a jet fighter to be lifted into the sky. When the pilot approached the anomaly, he saw firsthand an object in the form of a mushroom or jellyfish, the lower part of which is "illuminated by bright hanging lights".

When the plane appeared close to the "medusa", the object began to rise sharply up and the pilot asked for permission to shoot at it, but he was refused. Then the "medusa" rose up and the pilot also followed it, until at some point he ran out of fuel and was forced to return to his base.

Immediately, two more jet planes were sent to the medusa ,but by the time they arrived at the scene, the strange object was no longer there. Later it turned out that 140 witnesses on the ground also saw this object, including many cadets and officers of the flight school, who described the same thing.

Given that the original report was published in the respected Hebei Daily newspaper, this story is considered credible due to the fact that this Chinese newspaper almost never mentions anything related to UFOs or the supernatural.

Hypotheses

List of versions containing features matching the eyewitness descriptions or material evidence

Pyrotechnics

This category includes not only pyrotechnic projectiles visible in the sky, but also traces of exploded projectiles, their fragments and other similar activities. 

Pyrotechnics is a branch of technology related to the technology of preparing combustible compounds and burning them to obtain a certain signal or effect.

Divided into:

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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