Chinese airport closed after UFO is spotted flying over city

As is often the case, conflicting and confusing story of the UFO incident make it difficult to determine exactly what happened. Sightings of alleged UFOs occur pretty often, but it's rare indeed for one to affect scheduled air traffic.

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A Chinese airport was closed after this strange object spotted on sky around 9pm causes the Xiaoshan Airport to shut down. Stunned witnesses reported seeing a comet-like fireball in the sky and a number of local residents took photos of the strange ball of light.

A flight crew preparing for landing first detected the said UFO and notified the air traffic control department immediately.

Aviation authorities after receiving the said information responded immediately. This UFO sighting has caused eighteen flights affected. The diversion of flights to nearby airports and even the delay of some scheduled flights for about 2 to 3 hours during that day. 

The incident captured the attention of the Chinese media and sparked a firestorm of speculation on the UFO's identity.

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Five researchers from the Beijing UFO Research Society and the Shanghai UFO Investigative Research Center traveled to Hangzhou to study the phenomenon.

"We have several places to visit on our agenda, including the Xiaoshan Airport and the CAAC East China Regional Administration," the director of the Shanghai UFO Investigative Research Center, Lou Jinhong, told ABC News. "I cannot offer an opinion on this case, because we have not yet collected all the relevant documents and data. It's not clear how long the investigation will take."

Some Chinese experts claimed that the strange sight was actually debris from a US intercontinental ballistic missile.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government remained silent and did not give any official statement regarding this event. Some believe that the government has an idea what this object is but for some reasons, they cannot reveal what it is because it has to do something with a military mission.

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