James ´Captain Jim´ Oberg und die China-UFOs fasst auch im Kern das zusammen, was seit 2 Wochen schon unsere Haltung und Position in der Analyse ist

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>Space Expert: China UFOs Likely From This World

UFOs shut down an aursport in China´s Zhejiang province and turned heads in a major city, but a renowned space expert says the strange lights in the night sky will likely turn out to be more identifiable flying objects. Just days after the Xiaoshan Airport grounded flights due to bizarre lights, China´s state-controlled news agency published photographs of a mysterious ´diamond-shaped´ object sighted over Chongqing, sparking speculation about extraterrestrial visitors.

However UFO skeptic and space flight expert James Oberg told AOL News in an exclusive interview that he has a more terrestrial explanation -- military testing {was so aber nicht stimmt}. Space flight expert and UFO skeptic James Oberg says it´s not surprising that China isn´t very open about UFO reports, especially if they turn out to be due to military activity. "I´m not surprised because of the level of confusion. In China, they do seem to have a lot of openness about what people see -- they´re not always so open about the explanations, but that´s not because the UFOs are interplanetary," Oberg told AOL News. Oberg, who is the NBC News space consultant and is widely regarded as a world authority on the Russian and Chinese space programs, cautions against jumping to conclusions about the latest Chinese UFOs.

"Some of the stuff in China, like in the U.S.S.R. in the ´60s, was military aerospace activity, and the Chinese had a case like this just this past January, when an anti-missile test sparks UFO reports -- people saw the interceptor missile flying and colliding with a target missile, and they reported it as lights in the sky, which they were."

Shortly after the July 7 incident over the Xiaoshan Airport, spokesman Ruan Zhouchang confirmed to the media that "there was an unknown object seen in the skies over the airport. So, according to our regulations, we had to close the airspace. Aircraft movements were suspended from 8:45 p.m. to 9:41 p.m."I heard that some of the passengers whose flights just landed saw the object, which appeared as glowing lights. It was not a normal civil aviation flight. What it actually was, no one knows," Zhouchang said.

Oberg says that even videos and pictures don´t necessarily show something that comes from another planet. More terrestrial explanations are the norm. "There was one picture from a sequence of a rocket launch that was observed a week earlier all across central Asia, but that video has been all over YouTube as the airport UFO."

In fact, many images have found their way to the Internet, purporting to be the China airport UFO. At first glance, these images show what appears as an elongated craft, with several lights on top of it, shooting a beam of light toward the ground. An alien mother-ship looking for something it´s lost on the ground? Oberg offers a simpler, more logical explanation. "The most bizarre-looking pictures are pretty clearly time exposures of helicopters. If you look at those pictures, you see palm trees in them, and the buildings and the horizon look like Manchester, England, not Hangzhou, China." And what about those rows of lights on top of the alleged UFO? "It´s a two or three-second exposure -- the little dots show up because there´s a strobe on the helicopter." OK, and how about the beam of light emanating from the UFO? "If it´s got a searchlight, then as the searchlight moves, especially if it´s being pointed to a place on the ground, it´ll appear to converge."

The China airport incident reminded Oberg of an early 2001 case in Barnaul, Siberia, where a UFO shut down an airport. "A jet got to the end of the runway for takeoff when they reported a bright white light, like landing lights, also at the end of the runway," Oberg explained. "After a few minutes, it was still there, and the pilots reported it was hovering. Finally, it went away, and most people agree that the object in question was the planet Venus."

This may surprise you, but according to Oberg, who has written 10 books on all aspects of space flight, pilots might not be the best UFO eyewitnesses. "One of the dirty little secrets of UFO witnessing is that pilots are, as a category, among the worst identifiers of celestial objects -- and this is in their own words. The reason for that is that pilots, to fly safely, have to interpret visual stimuli as dangerous so they can react quickly, rather than sit there and speculate what the light might be."

In his lectures on space safety (and the principle of spaceflight safety as it applies to aviation) given to the National Transportation Safety Board, Oberg says it´s confirmed what he felt about pilot reports on UFOs. "Investigators are very reluctant to take testimony from pilots as witnesses because the pilot has an analytical mind and is trying to solve or understand the sequence of events, and will edit or stress or leave out elements of his raw perceptions that are inconsistent with the way he´s interpreted the sequence. We´re left with having to slice away most of what people thought they knew about the event and come back to the fact that there was something visually seen -- at least by the flight crew -- that worried the traffic control into not knowing what was over the airport."

So what does Oberg think the China UFOs will turn out to be? "Whether it was really Venus -- and that´s a conjecture -- it certainly has to be high on the list. Other people thought it might be a missile test. The raw descriptions are still in conflict." The space scientist adds that the possibility of the airport UFO having a military connection "is an entirely legitimate speculation."

Oberg has often been called an open-minded skeptic when it comes to UFOs, because he´s keeping his final bets open about what some UFOs may turn out to be. "I´m frustrated that people are just grappling among the smoke and mirrors because, with all the horse manure out there, I still think there could be ponies. I know that from the things I´ve found that turned out to be military activities, and that turn out to be important information about space activities -- Russian and Chinese, primarily -- there are things worthy of discovery and of legitimate interest to science, the news media, law enforcement, perceptual theory and psychology. I think there are things worthy of discovery hidden, lost, unrecognized among the corpus of UFO reports, and I think it´s worth looking at. It´s definitely not all nonsense."<

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