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China: "The Truth is Out There"

La Voz de Galicia (newspaper-Spain), November 24, 2003

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Summary: Half of the Chinese population believes in the existence of UFOs according to the results of a survey made known by the Outer Space Investigation Organization.

Half of the Chinese population believes in the existence of UFOs
according to the results of a survey made known by the Outer
Space Investigation Organization.

According to UFO expert Sun Shili, a professor at Wuhan
University, this high number of believers in the existence of
UFOs is closely linked to the growing popularity of "the
paranormal" among the Chinese.

China is the country boasting the largest number of UFO
enthusiast organizations in the world, adding to this the fact
that "UFO" magazine, published by the OSIO, sells more than
400,000 copies a month.

Up until the reform and openness process spearheaded by Deng
Xiaoping in the late '70s, the Chinese government and people
believed that UFOs were spyplanes sent from the USA, the scourge
of Communism.

Currently one out of every five UFO sightings takes place in
China, a country in which the official news agency is still
hesitant when it comes to publishing items of this kind,
considering them mere superstition. "Extraterrestrials are
becoming interested in China, as they were interested in the USA
during the 1950s," notes Sun, when explaining the large number
of sightings in recent years.

The most spectacular sighting occurred in 1998, when a Chinese
fighter played a game of cat-and-mouse with an alleged UFO for
over 30 minutes in the vicinity of the Changzhou military
facility (Xiangsu Province). The pilot, who described the object
as a flying saucer straight out of a Hollywood sci-fi flick, was
denied permission to open fire. The event was witnessed by over
100 onlookers.

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