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August 9, 2007

This UFO picture was taken by Wei Ningqiang, a bank manager in Nanjing. He claims that he shot this UFO picture on August 9 2007 during a trip in the Xinjiang region of China. He simply wanted to capture the wonderful landscape of the Tian Shan Mountains. He said he did not see or heard the unidentified flying object at the moment he shot this UFO picture. He explains furthermore that when he wanted to test the colors of his new high resolution monitor, he took this UFO picture has the color testing image. He then saw the oval shaped UFO with white smoke in front of the Tian Shan Mountains. His son, a high school student, decided to enlarge the UFO picture and after examination he was convinced that the strange object was an unidentified flying object. This UFO sighting was reported in the local evening paper 'Yangtze Evening News' and caught the attention of Wang Sichao, a UFO expert from the Zijinshan Planetarium which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did some analysis with the time (13:00:02) of this UFO picture with the times of other UFO pictures taken by other witnesses of this same UFO sighting. Wang Sichao concluded with the displacement of the shadows that the object was not a flying animal, because no bird could move so fast. He confirmed also that the UFO was not a plane considering it would not be able to fly so close to the Tian Shan Mountains, and also that the witnesses would have noticed a noise from the passing plane. | August 9 2007 - 13:00:02 PM | Tian Shan Mountains, Xinjiang, China | Saucer UFO shape | Source/Credit: www.xinhuanet.com