WEBVTT 0 00:00:00.070 --> 00:00:02.820 Buried deep inside Chinese military reports 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:06.910 is a UFO problem that appears to have gotten so completely out of hand 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:08.570 that starting in 2021, 3 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:10.780 the CCP launched an initiative 4 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:14.870 to use AI in order to track all their UFOs. 5 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.840 Chinese military pilots and security personnel 6 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.700 are increasingly encountering something bizarre in their country, 7 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:22.890 but unlike in America, 8 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:25.830 they've remained relatively hush-hush and are treating 9 00:00:25.830 --> 00:00:27.880 these encounters like a Communist Party. 10 00:00:28.250 --> 00:00:28.760 Secret. 11 00:00:29.050 --> 00:00:29.360 However, 12 00:00:29.450 --> 00:00:31.950 by digging through Chinese language media 13 00:00:32.130 --> 00:00:33.880 and declassified reports, 14 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:38.160 we're able to find that they're encountering a lot of unexplained craft 15 00:00:38.530 --> 00:00:40.520 because sometime around the turn of the century, 16 00:00:40.730 --> 00:00:44.920 UFO or UAP reports started exploding across China, 17 00:00:45.210 --> 00:00:47.870 growing to the point that by the start of the 2020s, 18 00:00:48.130 --> 00:00:50.080 Chinese government's human resources 19 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.570 were completely overwhelmed in trying to track and categorize all of them. 20 00:00:54.650 --> 00:00:55.360 And we know one thing, 21 00:00:55.410 --> 00:00:55.880 if China. 22 00:00:56.030 --> 00:00:56.770 A lot of something, 23 00:00:56.860 --> 00:00:58.850 it's a lot of human resources. 24 00:00:59.020 --> 00:00:59.670 So Chen Li, 25 00:00:59.780 --> 00:01:03.010 a researcher at China's Air Force Early Warning Academy, 26 00:01:03.270 --> 00:01:06.650 stated that the flood of these reports had finally risen 27 00:01:06.650 --> 00:01:10.460 to the level of officially becoming a national security concern 28 00:01:10.620 --> 00:01:12.570 and a major security challenge. 29 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:16.890 A significant amount of these reports can be explained by just the rise of drones, 30 00:01:17.030 --> 00:01:17.960 UAV 31 00:01:18.130 --> 00:01:18.440 technology, 32 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:20.520 and other mundane explanations. 33 00:01:20.660 --> 00:01:22.240 But just like in the American, 34 00:01:22.600 --> 00:01:23.980 European and Russian governments, 35 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:25.110 Investigations, 36 00:01:25.660 --> 00:01:29.850 enough outlier cases remained to cause serious concern. 37 00:01:30.110 --> 00:01:30.700 And so today, 38 00:01:30.750 --> 00:01:34.500 we're gonna examine what is really happening in the sky over China. 39 00:01:34.870 --> 00:01:37.570 What are their Chinese UFO files tell us? 40 00:01:37.750 --> 00:01:40.770 Why is the CCP limiting information released 41 00:01:41.010 --> 00:01:43.050 compared to other countries around the world, 42 00:01:43.270 --> 00:01:45.740 and why is my American credit score somehow 43 00:01:45.740 --> 00:01:47.980 lower than my Chinese social credit score? 44 00:01:48.110 --> 00:01:48.900 I'm Chris Cappy. 45 00:01:48.950 --> 00:01:51.860 Hit the subscribe button to get 3 episodes each week. 46 00:01:52.340 --> 00:01:57.050 It's 11 at night and radar operators at Chinese Air Force Base Changzhou 47 00:01:57.220 --> 00:02:00.730 in the Hebei province detect an unidentified 48 00:02:00.730 --> 00:02:03.650 object moving rapidly northeast over the airfield. 49 00:02:03.880 --> 00:02:06.520 According to the Chinese account from CNTV, 50 00:02:06.820 --> 00:02:10.970 one of the most famous Chinese incidents was about to happen on October 19, 51 00:02:11.060 --> 00:02:12.060 1998. 52 00:02:12.260 --> 00:02:15.450 Ground crews are able to see something outside in the night sky. 53 00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:16.470 And at first, 54 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.480 it looks like just two points of light, 55 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:19.190 one red, 56 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:20.030 one white, 57 00:02:20.200 --> 00:02:21.740 and they're apparently rotating. 58 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:23.750 As the outline becomes clearer, 59 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.160 the eyewitnesses describe a mushroom-shaped object with lights underneath. 60 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:32.810 One particularly bright light appears to shine directly toward the ground. 61 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.650 Seeing this over a highly restricted military airbase 62 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:38.590 is generally considered less than. 63 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:39.370 Ideal. 64 00:02:39.620 --> 00:02:42.800 So air traffic control checks for possible explanations. 65 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:45.860 There's no civilian aircraft that are passing over the airfield, 66 00:02:46.100 --> 00:02:48.810 and another military unit's night flight training 67 00:02:48.810 --> 00:02:50.900 had just ended half an hour earlier. 68 00:02:51.110 --> 00:02:52.720 Unable to identify the contact, 69 00:02:52.980 --> 00:02:55.010 the unit goes into combat alert. 70 00:02:55.220 --> 00:02:57.010 Could it be a US combat aircraft? 71 00:02:57.100 --> 00:02:58.490 Could it be a sneak attack out there, 72 00:02:58.510 --> 00:03:01.210 or possibly a covert American spy plane? 73 00:03:01.300 --> 00:03:01.770 But first, 74 00:03:02.160 --> 00:03:04.520 Partner Ground News is the most important tool that 75 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.350 helps me and my team stay objective every day. 76 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.970 It gathers thousands of news stories worldwide into one easy to use platform 77 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.990 that gives you this 360-degree view of how 78 00:03:14.990 --> 00:03:18.100 events are reported across the entire political spectrum. 79 00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:18.740 So for example, 80 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:20.910 Ground News allows me to cut through 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is. 107 00:04:22.440 --> 00:04:26.030 So China launches a two-seat JJ6 military trainer. 108 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:28.550 It takes off with its afterburners engaged, 109 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.480 headed to intercept the aircraft racing over there. 110 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:34.050 Aboard are Deputy Regiment Commander 111 00:04:34.200 --> 00:04:35.060 Lao Ming 112 00:04:35.200 --> 00:04:36.570 and Squadron Commander 113 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:37.510 Hu Xiaohong, 114 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.550 and they become the two central witnesses to this event. 115 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:42.230 Ground controllers guide them. 116 00:04:42.370 --> 00:04:43.220 Toward the contact, 117 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:45.460 providing its direction and altitude. 118 00:04:45.640 --> 00:04:49.110 The pilots soon report seeing an object with a rounded top, 119 00:04:49.320 --> 00:04:50.700 a flat underside, 120 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:53.180 and rows of lights pointing downward. 121 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.640 The account compares its silhouette to a giant straw hat. 122 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:58.860 That's when the pilots are ordered to approach, 123 00:04:59.080 --> 00:05:02.250 which must have felt like a very questionable career decision. 124 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:07.220 When the Chinese fighter closes it in approximately 4 kilometers from the object, 125 00:05:07.520 --> 00:05:08.040 it suddenly, 126 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.900 Climbs in response to them. 127 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:11.060 Lau and Hu 128 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:12.420 follow it upward, 129 00:05:12.640 --> 00:05:16.450 but when their aircraft reaches an altitude of about 3000 m, 130 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:18.900 the object is then directly above them. 131 00:05:19.080 --> 00:05:20.880 They change direction and they descend, 132 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:22.870 attempting to create some separation. 133 00:05:23.080 --> 00:05:27.150 This is where the CNTV account describes the object following after them. 134 00:05:27.320 --> 00:05:29.790 The pilots then accelerate into another climb 135 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:30.880 as they're chased, 136 00:05:31.080 --> 00:05:33.670 taking the aircraft inverted before returning to. 137 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:34.670 Level flight. 138 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.300 They're trying to gain an altitude advantage. 139 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:37.910 Instead, 140 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:38.840 when they level out, 141 00:05:38.960 --> 00:05:42.550 the object is reportedly still again 2000 m above them. 142 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:43.830 Whatever they're looking at, 143 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.190 their attempts to get closer have failed. 144 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.220 Then Lau requests permission to open fire, 145 00:05:49.400 --> 00:05:50.680 and according to the account, 146 00:05:50.840 --> 00:05:53.300 he brings the object into his gun sight 147 00:05:53.520 --> 00:05:55.870 and disengages the firing safety. 148 00:05:55.960 --> 00:05:56.700 The target is 149 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.430 well within distance of his 30 millimeter cannon. 150 00:05:59.830 --> 00:06:03.450 But fortunately his commander on the ground tells him to hold off 151 00:06:03.590 --> 00:06:07.700 on firing and to potentially start a potential intergalactic war. 152 00:06:07.790 --> 00:06:10.750 They need to determine first what it is that they're shooting at. 153 00:06:10.950 --> 00:06:11.340 Instead, 154 00:06:11.390 --> 00:06:13.820 the Chinese pilots were ordered once again to get 155 00:06:13.820 --> 00:06:16.490 closer to the object and gather more information. 156 00:06:16.790 --> 00:06:17.620 For about an hour, 157 00:06:17.790 --> 00:06:20.810 the object seems to toy with the Chinese JJ-6 158 00:06:21.150 --> 00:06:22.010 until finally, 159 00:06:22.170 --> 00:06:25.420 with both fuel and low oil alarms going off, 160 00:06:25.670 --> 00:06:29.020 continuing the chase would risk exhausting their remaining fuel, 161 00:06:29.380 --> 00:06:32.260 So ground control orders them to return back to base, 162 00:06:32.460 --> 00:06:36.730 while radar operators continue tracking the strange anomalous object. 163 00:06:36.860 --> 00:06:41.140 Two of China's newer fighter aircraft then prepare to take off for interception, 164 00:06:41.300 --> 00:06:43.000 but before they can join the pursuit, 165 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:45.460 the object disappears from the radar screen. 166 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:46.090 In total, 167 00:06:46.220 --> 00:06:49.610 about 160 people would witness seeing this object 168 00:06:49.780 --> 00:06:51.720 over and near the military base. 169 00:06:51.860 --> 00:06:56.300 The only evidence that the world would have of this is their eyewitness testimony, 170 00:06:56.570 --> 00:06:57.660 because officially the Chinese, 171 00:06:57.950 --> 00:07:00.050 government denied anything took place. 172 00:07:00.230 --> 00:07:02.660 Reported across the world for hundreds of years though, 173 00:07:02.710 --> 00:07:03.570 it seems as if 174 00:07:03.710 --> 00:07:05.100 by the end of World War II, 175 00:07:05.470 --> 00:07:08.100 the phenomena exploded onto the world stage. 176 00:07:08.230 --> 00:07:10.840 These craft started being witnessed around the world. 177 00:07:11.070 --> 00:07:13.940 After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, 178 00:07:14.070 --> 00:07:16.700 the then segregated East and Western worlds 179 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:20.030 were shocked to discover just how much they had in common 180 00:07:20.230 --> 00:07:22.070 with the unexplained aerial phenomena. 181 00:07:22.270 --> 00:07:25.550 Apparently UFOs had not been respecting the Iron Curtain. 182 00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:25.890 The. 183 00:07:26.440 --> 00:07:27.180 Same craft, 184 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:27.990 same shapes, 185 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:28.790 same properties, 186 00:07:28.880 --> 00:07:32.910 even the same behaviors were reported on both sides of the Iron Curtain. 187 00:07:33.170 --> 00:07:36.550 While UFOs were shutting down nuclear missiles in the US, 188 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.020 the exact mirror opposite was happening in the Soviet Union 189 00:07:40.140 --> 00:07:44.220 when terrifyingly Russian nuclear personnel described UFOs turning on 190 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.160 their missiles and putting them into launch ready status. 191 00:07:47.370 --> 00:07:49.330 The world hung on the precipice 192 00:07:49.640 --> 00:07:51.710 of complete nuclear annihilation, 193 00:07:51.840 --> 00:07:54.350 and who knows whose finger was behind the trigger. 194 00:07:54.750 --> 00:07:57.780 But while we've come to learn a great deal about what these 195 00:07:57.780 --> 00:08:01.330 craft were up to in the Soviet Union through declassified documents, 196 00:08:01.430 --> 00:08:02.420 and in America, 197 00:08:02.550 --> 00:08:03.890 I've found China to be 198 00:08:04.230 --> 00:08:05.490 another thing completely. 199 00:08:05.750 --> 00:08:09.970 The great firewall that digitally separates the US internet from the Chinese one, 200 00:08:10.270 --> 00:08:12.540 doesn't just keep the average Chinese person 201 00:08:12.540 --> 00:08:14.380 blocked off from the regular internet. 202 00:08:14.700 --> 00:08:16.330 And maybe that's not such a bad thing, 203 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:18.160 but the Chinese Communist Party 204 00:08:18.340 --> 00:08:23.420 mandated this veil of secrecy that extends into the UAP UFO space. 205 00:08:23.700 --> 00:08:28.200 Despite these unidentified aircraft being a very popular topic in China 206 00:08:28.380 --> 00:08:32.059 and the existence of thousands of UFO clubs and organizations, 207 00:08:32.380 --> 00:08:36.340 the Chinese government has been extremely tight-lipped on the entire topic. 208 00:08:36.580 --> 00:08:38.850 If you're expecting even the smallest amount of 209 00:08:38.850 --> 00:08:40.890 transparency that the United States government has, 210 00:08:41.190 --> 00:08:44.059 Shown in recent releases of historical records, 211 00:08:44.430 --> 00:08:45.930 expect to be disappointed 212 00:08:46.070 --> 00:08:46.940 when it comes to China, 213 00:08:47.100 --> 00:08:49.060 because as far as the Chinese government is concerned, 214 00:08:49.110 --> 00:08:51.970 the existence of UFOs and whatever they may be, 215 00:08:52.230 --> 00:08:55.040 remains a closely guarded state secret. 216 00:08:55.270 --> 00:08:57.740 Even UFOs have to clear the Great Firewall. 217 00:08:57.870 --> 00:09:00.340 Not only is the government officially silent on the matter, 218 00:09:00.430 --> 00:09:01.890 but unlike the United States, 219 00:09:02.030 --> 00:09:04.820 which has established reporting guidelines and encouraged 220 00:09:04.820 --> 00:09:07.350 pilots and other personnel to speak about, 221 00:09:07.370 --> 00:09:08.400 Any encounters, 222 00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:12.280 China does not appear to have any such public regulations. 223 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:15.170 Xi Jinping is of course known for nothing if not 224 00:09:15.390 --> 00:09:16.760 his transparency. 225 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.900 The opaque nature of the CCP has frustrated 226 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:23.300 efforts to dig into China's unexplained aerial phenomena 227 00:09:23.410 --> 00:09:23.780 history. 228 00:09:24.040 --> 00:09:25.650 But as you're about to see, 229 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:27.890 some events were so high profile 230 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.220 that they were impossible for Chinese government to keep silent, 231 00:09:31.520 --> 00:09:33.640 because what has slipped out is concerning. 232 00:09:33.790 --> 00:09:37.650 One of the most prominent and recent incidents which the Chinese Communist Party 233 00:09:37.910 --> 00:09:42.140 was able to only partially erase was the Zhanggujiang 234 00:09:42.280 --> 00:09:44.580 naval base incident of February 12, 235 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:45.860 2023. 236 00:09:46.030 --> 00:09:47.500 If this date sounds familiar, 237 00:09:47.710 --> 00:09:50.060 that's because it was just over a week after the 238 00:09:50.060 --> 00:09:53.920 US Air Force fighter jets shot down a Chinese spy balloon 239 00:09:54.030 --> 00:09:56.980 that had crisscrossed the continental United States at the time. 240 00:09:57.130 --> 00:09:57.700 Given its mass. 241 00:09:58.040 --> 00:09:58.470 size, 242 00:09:58.520 --> 00:09:59.980 it was deemed a public risk 243 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:01.790 and was shot down over an ocean 244 00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:04.860 where it was hoped that it would be easier to recover the debris. 245 00:10:05.040 --> 00:10:07.510 This is the story most people know and remember, 246 00:10:07.760 --> 00:10:09.870 but what a lot of people don't remember is 247 00:10:09.870 --> 00:10:12.660 what happened in the immediate aftermath of the shootdown, 248 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.790 once it was quickly out of the media mindset, 249 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.480 because with NORAD realizing that the Chinese 250 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:20.820 were exploiting radar blind spots, 251 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:21.710 it opened up. 252 00:10:22.010 --> 00:10:22.580 Filters, 253 00:10:22.730 --> 00:10:26.870 filters put in place to prevent the generation of hundreds or thousands of 254 00:10:27.050 --> 00:10:29.190 false radar positive pings. 255 00:10:29.370 --> 00:10:34.630 So air defense radar are tuned to be on the lookout for expected threats like 256 00:10:34.770 --> 00:10:36.370 jet aircraft and missiles. 257 00:10:36.530 --> 00:10:41.710 But opening the aperture suddenly revealed a host of contacts behaving well 258 00:10:41.710 --> 00:10:45.770 outside the performance envelope of a fighter jet or ballistic missile. 259 00:10:46.250 --> 00:10:49.680 Three new objects were initially reported as being detected 260 00:10:49.870 --> 00:10:51.690 with shootdowns taking place in Canada, 261 00:10:51.850 --> 00:10:52.500 Lake Huron, 262 00:10:52.570 --> 00:10:53.480 and Alaska. 263 00:10:53.650 --> 00:10:57.750 The government claimed that these were just balloons from private organizations, 264 00:10:57.890 --> 00:10:59.910 and no wreckage was recovered. 265 00:11:00.210 --> 00:11:00.400 That, 266 00:11:00.450 --> 00:11:00.760 however, 267 00:11:00.930 --> 00:11:04.610 conflicts with earlier statements from Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, 268 00:11:04.810 --> 00:11:07.710 who stated that the Alaska object had crashed onto 269 00:11:07.710 --> 00:11:10.710 sea ice and recovery teams were already collecting debris. 270 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:14.350 Perhaps the reason for the Nile was because of what pilots described, 271 00:11:14.490 --> 00:11:15.600 the multiple F-35. 272 00:11:15.990 --> 00:11:19.700 Dispatched and the pilots stating that they could not 273 00:11:19.700 --> 00:11:22.500 see any type of propulsion and could not explain 274 00:11:22.670 --> 00:11:24.490 how the object remained aloft 275 00:11:24.710 --> 00:11:26.380 and moving at 40,000 ft. 276 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:27.520 Because weather balloons, 277 00:11:27.670 --> 00:11:28.180 by the way, 278 00:11:28.390 --> 00:11:31.190 fly between 60,000 and 100,000 ft, 279 00:11:31.430 --> 00:11:34.620 where atmospheric pressure helps them stay aloft for longer, 280 00:11:34.830 --> 00:11:38.570 and they don't fare well in extremely fast winds at lower altitudes. 281 00:11:38.790 --> 00:11:40.090 As far as balloons go, 282 00:11:40.350 --> 00:11:42.260 this was a serious overachiever. 283 00:11:42.470 --> 00:11:43.410 But what you probably 284 00:11:43.540 --> 00:11:44.970 don't know is that at the same 285 00:11:45.070 --> 00:11:45.230 time, 286 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:48.270 That the US was tracking mysterious objects 287 00:11:48.490 --> 00:11:49.750 that it was shooting down, 288 00:11:49.970 --> 00:11:51.600 so too was China. 289 00:11:51.770 --> 00:11:52.640 On February 12, 290 00:11:52.890 --> 00:11:54.880 4 days before the US shootdowns, 291 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:59.370 China detected an object flying near the People's Liberation Army Navy Base 292 00:11:59.530 --> 00:12:02.680 at Jianguzhang in Shandong province. 293 00:12:02.810 --> 00:12:04.150 The Chinese government was 294 00:12:04.250 --> 00:12:06.270 quiet on what it had detected 295 00:12:06.390 --> 00:12:10.290 other than releasing a public statement that it was planning on shooting it down. 296 00:12:10.410 --> 00:12:11.640 On Chinese social media, 297 00:12:11.770 --> 00:12:12.200 however, 298 00:12:12.370 --> 00:12:14.850 rumors exploded that locals had witnessed. 299 00:12:14.990 --> 00:12:16.810 An anomalous craft in the area, 300 00:12:16.990 --> 00:12:19.430 which prompted the original security response. 301 00:12:19.710 --> 00:12:22.140 Within hours of the first social media post, 302 00:12:22.510 --> 00:12:26.810 China's WeChat was scrubbed of all mentions by Chinese censors. 303 00:12:26.990 --> 00:12:28.190 On American social media, 304 00:12:28.270 --> 00:12:29.650 you can't post slurs, 305 00:12:29.830 --> 00:12:31.140 and on Chinese social media, 306 00:12:31.190 --> 00:12:32.860 you can't post UFOs. 307 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:34.080 We're not the same. 308 00:12:34.350 --> 00:12:36.560 Local fishermen were mobilized by the Chinese 309 00:12:36.560 --> 00:12:38.970 government to help in recovering any debris, 310 00:12:39.070 --> 00:12:41.930 and local airspace was actually shut down due to 311 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.380 publicized threat to civilian aircraft. 312 00:12:44.690 --> 00:12:45.770 Within 2 hours though, 313 00:12:45.930 --> 00:12:50.330 airspace was reopened and the CCP never mentioned the object again. 314 00:12:50.650 --> 00:12:53.010 The last part is what's strangest of all, 315 00:12:53.250 --> 00:12:55.120 because if the object had simply been a weather 316 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:57.680 balloon or some large UAV of some kind, 317 00:12:57.940 --> 00:13:00.120 then why wouldn't the Chinese government simply 318 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:02.130 have said so and displayed the wreckage? 319 00:13:02.300 --> 00:13:02.720 Instead, 320 00:13:02.890 --> 00:13:06.480 China's secrecy only fueled further speculation and scrutiny. 321 00:13:06.690 --> 00:13:10.160 We don't have evidence to prove this was either a real UFO. 322 00:13:10.290 --> 00:13:11.260 A weather balloon 323 00:13:11.460 --> 00:13:13.260 or an American spycraft, 324 00:13:13.500 --> 00:13:15.980 but China's specific response to this incident 325 00:13:16.340 --> 00:13:19.050 strongly hints at only two possibilities. 326 00:13:19.260 --> 00:13:22.520 The object was indeed extremely anomalous and China 327 00:13:22.710 --> 00:13:25.220 does not want public knowledge of what it recovered, 328 00:13:25.400 --> 00:13:28.850 or the object evaded Chinese attempts to shoot it down. 329 00:13:29.100 --> 00:13:31.690 Given its proximity to a very important naval base, 330 00:13:31.900 --> 00:13:33.010 if the latter occurred, 331 00:13:33.100 --> 00:13:35.810 then the last thing China would want is the world to know. 332 00:13:36.110 --> 00:13:40.270 That it can't secure some of its most critical airspace in the entire country. 333 00:13:40.510 --> 00:13:44.490 Beijing is usually very comfortable announcing successful interceptions, 334 00:13:44.750 --> 00:13:45.250 except 335 00:13:45.430 --> 00:13:46.480 this one apparently. 336 00:13:46.630 --> 00:13:50.790 I found some evidence of Chinese suppression of UAP reports in social media 337 00:13:51.030 --> 00:13:54.580 during the 2024 Tianjin Airport shutdown incident. 338 00:13:54.870 --> 00:13:56.070 For two nights in a row, 339 00:13:56.190 --> 00:13:58.970 Tianjin Airport was shut down for hours at a time 340 00:13:59.300 --> 00:14:01.420 due to an incursion by unknown objects. 341 00:14:02.280 --> 00:14:04.260 Witnesses on the ground described several 342 00:14:04.280 --> 00:14:07.430 brightly illuminated objects hovering over the airport 343 00:14:07.590 --> 00:14:10.670 with multiple videos taken and shared on social media, 344 00:14:10.920 --> 00:14:13.100 which is exactly what you want to hear 345 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.740 when your airport is closed by something nobody seems to be able to identify. 346 00:14:16.920 --> 00:14:21.100 It's interesting to see the very different responses from the US government 347 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:23.820 openly talking about UAPs 348 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:24.780 to China 349 00:14:24.920 --> 00:14:27.260 trying to bury any evidence of it. 350 00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:29.950 Depending on what you personally believe is happening. 351 00:14:30.450 --> 00:14:32.880 This fact will be interpreted in different ways. 352 00:14:33.340 --> 00:14:34.310 Is it a psyia 353 00:14:34.460 --> 00:14:37.180 publicly being run by the US intelligence community 354 00:14:37.780 --> 00:14:39.560 trying to explain away secret 355 00:14:39.770 --> 00:14:42.990 technology and aircraft that the US military is running over China, 356 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:44.050 or 357 00:14:44.300 --> 00:14:45.460 is it something else? 358 00:14:45.620 --> 00:14:47.530 What we know is that the objects were 359 00:14:47.530 --> 00:14:50.740 described as drones over official Chinese media, 360 00:14:51.060 --> 00:14:52.730 but from video evidence alone, 361 00:14:52.820 --> 00:14:56.130 it's clear that these don't look anything like normal drones. 362 00:14:56.420 --> 00:14:56.850 For one, 363 00:14:56.980 --> 00:14:58.600 the extremely bright lights 364 00:14:58.780 --> 00:15:01.330 aren't just non-standard equipment on a drone, 365 00:15:01.660 --> 00:15:03.060 but would have been extremely bad. 366 00:15:03.220 --> 00:15:04.200 Very intensive, 367 00:15:04.450 --> 00:15:07.450 making it inefficient for the hours-long disruption 368 00:15:07.690 --> 00:15:12.370 that the repeated intrusions caused across the night of September 11th and 12th. 369 00:15:12.620 --> 00:15:12.960 Further, 370 00:15:13.050 --> 00:15:17.110 any pranksters undertaking a coordinated drone intrusion of the airport 371 00:15:17.530 --> 00:15:19.600 wouldn't want to give themselves away. 372 00:15:19.770 --> 00:15:23.790 So obviously the country with the most public surveillance of anywhere in the world 373 00:15:23.970 --> 00:15:25.040 as of 2023, 374 00:15:25.210 --> 00:15:25.640 there's 375 00:15:25.890 --> 00:15:29.710 more than 700 million surveillance cameras across China's major cities. 376 00:15:30.090 --> 00:15:33.180 China's mass surveillance system makes even the CIA blush and 377 00:15:33.470 --> 00:15:35.010 And yet they couldn't capture it. 378 00:15:35.390 --> 00:15:37.810 In one Chinese source that we found, 379 00:15:38.070 --> 00:15:39.100 a user commented, 380 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:39.550 quote, 381 00:15:39.750 --> 00:15:41.950 now they're deleting videos everywhere. 382 00:15:42.150 --> 00:15:44.500 Despite hundreds of witnesses around the airport, 383 00:15:44.870 --> 00:15:47.570 only a handful of videos have survived online, 384 00:15:47.790 --> 00:15:51.010 with seemingly a mass purge having taken place. 385 00:15:51.350 --> 00:15:51.780 As usual, 386 00:15:51.870 --> 00:15:54.170 the Chinese government remained completely silent 387 00:15:54.230 --> 00:15:55.900 on what the incursions had been. 388 00:15:56.340 --> 00:15:57.480 Normal drone 389 00:15:57.620 --> 00:15:58.610 or UAP. 390 00:15:58.900 --> 00:16:01.690 This airport shutdown mirrors a similar incident 391 00:16:02.060 --> 00:16:05.970 14 years prior at the Zaishan Airport in Hangzhou. 392 00:16:06.310 --> 00:16:07.730 At around 8:40 p.m. 393 00:16:07.860 --> 00:16:09.050 on the night of July 7, 394 00:16:09.180 --> 00:16:09.970 2010. 395 00:16:10.230 --> 00:16:13.420 2 inbound flights both reported a strange object 396 00:16:13.540 --> 00:16:15.090 hovering near the airport. 397 00:16:15.550 --> 00:16:19.230 The air traffic control tower was seemingly completely unaware of the object, 398 00:16:19.430 --> 00:16:21.580 as they were shown nothing on the radar, 399 00:16:21.830 --> 00:16:23.880 but they were quick to take safety precautions 400 00:16:23.880 --> 00:16:26.890 and shutdown any inbound and outgoing flights, 401 00:16:27.150 --> 00:16:29.140 which is never a comforting sentence to hear 402 00:16:29.140 --> 00:16:31.990 from the people responsible for keeping airplanes separated. 403 00:16:32.270 --> 00:16:34.910 Eventually flight crews lost track of the object, 404 00:16:35.150 --> 00:16:37.020 and with radar showing all clear, 405 00:16:37.310 --> 00:16:39.430 the airport was reopened for traffic. 406 00:16:39.590 --> 00:16:41.810 The entire incident was blamed on a balloon, 407 00:16:41.830 --> 00:16:42.930 and the rest of China 408 00:16:43.110 --> 00:16:44.260 went on with its business. 409 00:16:44.670 --> 00:16:45.340 A year later, 410 00:16:45.510 --> 00:16:46.620 near Shanghai, 411 00:16:46.870 --> 00:16:51.450 over 10 different aircrews all reported an object that could not possibly be 412 00:16:51.590 --> 00:16:53.060 misidentified as a drone. 413 00:16:53.270 --> 00:16:53.740 At night, 414 00:16:53.950 --> 00:16:54.860 around 9 p.m. 415 00:16:55.030 --> 00:16:56.340 aircrews near Shanghai, 416 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:57.020 Beijing, 417 00:16:57.070 --> 00:16:57.780 and Tijuana, 418 00:16:57.870 --> 00:17:00.070 areas separated by over 800 miles, 419 00:17:00.270 --> 00:17:03.510 all reported very similar phenomena in the night sky. 420 00:17:03.670 --> 00:17:05.960 The phenomena did not appear on radar 421 00:17:06.069 --> 00:17:07.660 and was not deemed a flight risk, 422 00:17:07.750 --> 00:17:08.410 and most 423 00:17:08.569 --> 00:17:13.220 later explained it away as the expanding fuel cloud of the upper stage of a rocket. 424 00:17:13.700 --> 00:17:15.520 The problem with that explanation though, 425 00:17:15.619 --> 00:17:17.930 is that there were no rocket launches that night, 426 00:17:18.020 --> 00:17:18.750 and further, 427 00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:21.579 the photos of the object in vicinity of Shanghai 428 00:17:21.770 --> 00:17:23.800 barely resemble a fuel cloud. 429 00:17:24.020 --> 00:17:24.740 For comparison, 430 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:27.040 this is what a fuel cloud looks like 431 00:17:27.140 --> 00:17:28.510 from hundreds of miles away. 432 00:17:28.780 --> 00:17:32.410 Other photos taken from different vantage points seem to show 433 00:17:32.410 --> 00:17:35.630 a luminous green source that's diffusing light all around. 434 00:17:35.860 --> 00:17:36.170 Again, 435 00:17:36.260 --> 00:17:36.850 for comparison, 436 00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:37.490 here's another fuel. 437 00:17:37.810 --> 00:17:38.270 Cloud 438 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.120 from a known rocket launch. 439 00:17:40.290 --> 00:17:42.120 A half hour after the first sighting, 440 00:17:42.290 --> 00:17:44.840 an observatory in Beijing captured what appeared to 441 00:17:44.840 --> 00:17:46.790 be the fading end of the phenomenon. 442 00:17:47.050 --> 00:17:50.250 So either China launched a rocket nobody recorded, 443 00:17:50.450 --> 00:17:52.830 or the explanation had a few holes in it. 444 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:56.040 While it does have some similarities to a fuel cloud, 445 00:17:56.210 --> 00:18:00.010 the problem yet remains that there were no rocket launches that day in China. 446 00:18:00.260 --> 00:18:00.560 Further, 447 00:18:00.650 --> 00:18:01.650 the cloud is considered, 448 00:18:01.710 --> 00:18:03.310 Consistently low to the horizon, 449 00:18:03.510 --> 00:18:06.100 though this has prompted some Chinese astronomers 450 00:18:06.280 --> 00:18:08.580 to say that this means the object was 451 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:10.750 all the way in Inner Mongolia. 452 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.230 That represents a problem for witnesses in Shanghai, 453 00:18:13.320 --> 00:18:16.080 over 1500 miles away from Inner Mongolia. 454 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:20.180 What this phenomenon does bear resemblance to is a similar reported event 455 00:18:20.340 --> 00:18:21.490 during the Cold War 456 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:22.710 in the Soviet Union, 457 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.110 when on September 20th, 458 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:25.550 1977, 459 00:18:26.060 --> 00:18:29.970 People from Vladivostok to Copenhagen and Helsinki 460 00:18:30.220 --> 00:18:34.560 all reported seeing a massive glowing jellyfish-like object in the sky. 461 00:18:34.660 --> 00:18:36.610 The object hovered for an hour, 462 00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:39.580 showering an entire town in rays of light 463 00:18:39.780 --> 00:18:41.930 and witnessed by military personnel and 464 00:18:41.930 --> 00:18:44.490 dockworkers starting their early morning shifts. 465 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:48.440 A single photograph was smuggled out of the Soviet Union 466 00:18:48.560 --> 00:18:50.970 of the object and it survives to this day. 467 00:18:51.180 --> 00:18:54.920 The widespread sightings prompted European officials to contact 468 00:18:54.940 --> 00:18:58.590 the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences of the USSR 469 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:03.200 to express concern over the possibility of exotic Soviet weapons testing 470 00:19:03.420 --> 00:19:06.320 and asking of any possibility of harm to the environment. 471 00:19:06.610 --> 00:19:10.460 Yet a secret Soviet investigation concluded that the object was real, 472 00:19:10.830 --> 00:19:12.170 had been seen by hundreds, 473 00:19:12.190 --> 00:19:15.770 and could not be explained under any other explanations. 474 00:19:15.950 --> 00:19:18.890 And that brings us back to China because by the 2020s, 475 00:19:19.110 --> 00:19:22.220 Beijing had accumulated so many unexplained reports 476 00:19:22.420 --> 00:19:26.820 that the military started feeding them into this AI powered tracking system. 477 00:19:27.080 --> 00:19:29.710 Chinese military's new AI reporting system 478 00:19:29.870 --> 00:19:33.460 taps into a data feed into a national analysis system. 479 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.620 This is itself fed by regional military command 480 00:19:37.800 --> 00:19:41.670 who process initial reports from military and civilian radar, 481 00:19:41.910 --> 00:19:42.480 pilots, 482 00:19:42.690 --> 00:19:42.990 police, 483 00:19:43.040 --> 00:19:45.740 and even civilian astronomical observatories. 484 00:19:46.040 --> 00:19:48.270 With AI's ability to pour over mountains 485 00:19:48.270 --> 00:19:51.100 of information quickly and sometimes efficiently, 486 00:19:51.280 --> 00:19:53.060 it soon began to discover 487 00:19:53.280 --> 00:19:56.570 patterns that helped to explain some of these reports away, 488 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.910 pulling together clues involving weather phenomena 489 00:20:00.080 --> 00:20:00.640 and unexpected. 490 00:20:00.970 --> 00:20:02.230 air or space traffic. 491 00:20:02.410 --> 00:20:05.230 Even the UFOs have created enough paperwork that 492 00:20:05.360 --> 00:20:07.310 China finally had to automate it all. 493 00:20:07.530 --> 00:20:10.350 But Chinese AI also found outliers that 494 00:20:10.490 --> 00:20:12.160 fit into their own pattern, 495 00:20:12.290 --> 00:20:14.240 instantaneous acceleration, 496 00:20:14.570 --> 00:20:15.720 trans medium travel, 497 00:20:15.850 --> 00:20:18.850 or the ability to move between space and atmosphere, 498 00:20:19.150 --> 00:20:21.430 or the atmosphere and water, 499 00:20:21.610 --> 00:20:24.560 impossibly high G-force maneuvers and more. 500 00:20:24.770 --> 00:20:26.990 Things that in the West have become part of the 501 00:20:27.130 --> 00:20:27.640 quote unquote, 502 00:20:27.750 --> 00:20:32.310 5 observables denoting suspected UAPs and UFOs. 503 00:20:32.340 --> 00:20:33.890 In our team's investigation here, 504 00:20:33.980 --> 00:20:38.660 we found only one very high profile incident involving the Chinese military, 505 00:20:38.940 --> 00:20:41.250 which is in itself extremely suspicious. 506 00:20:41.420 --> 00:20:44.820 The US has made public dozens upon dozens of incidents 507 00:20:44.940 --> 00:20:46.410 involving military bases, 508 00:20:46.540 --> 00:20:47.880 nuclear installations, 509 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:49.250 weapons test ranges, 510 00:20:49.340 --> 00:20:53.010 and extremely sensitive national security research and training areas. 511 00:20:53.220 --> 00:20:53.810 Statistically, 512 00:20:53.990 --> 00:20:54.750 China having only 513 00:20:54.870 --> 00:20:56.970 One famous military UFO case 514 00:20:57.150 --> 00:20:59.780 is an incredible achievement in airspace management 515 00:21:00.050 --> 00:21:00.570 or 516 00:21:00.790 --> 00:21:03.860 someone is furiously shredding reports somewhere in Beijing. 517 00:21:04.080 --> 00:21:04.580 The UK, 518 00:21:04.790 --> 00:21:04.980 France, 519 00:21:05.150 --> 00:21:05.500 Germany, 520 00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:10.170 and even India have all also released information on UFO activity 521 00:21:10.460 --> 00:21:13.030 near military and sensitive installations. 522 00:21:13.190 --> 00:21:15.960 That makes it statistically impossible that China, 523 00:21:16.070 --> 00:21:17.990 a nation of over a billion people, 524 00:21:18.150 --> 00:21:21.790 would only have a single major UFO event recorded by its military. 525 00:21:22.580 --> 00:21:25.740 Especially when it becomes a matter of vital interest 526 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:28.040 across the entire Indo-Pacific. 527 00:21:28.280 --> 00:21:31.060 What's more likely and maybe a little more sinister 528 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:33.190 is that the Chinese censorship apparatus 529 00:21:33.190 --> 00:21:36.110 is instead silencing the entire phenomenon. 530 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.310 With an iron grip on its country's information space, 531 00:21:39.610 --> 00:21:42.900 little gets out about China that the Chinese Communist Party 532 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:44.580 doesn't want you to know about. 533 00:21:44.760 --> 00:21:47.340 And while China does have an official UFO 534 00:21:47.460 --> 00:21:48.070 investigation, 535 00:21:48.320 --> 00:21:48.750 it's concluded. 536 00:21:48.900 --> 00:21:49.160 Illusions, 537 00:21:49.210 --> 00:21:49.670 if any, 538 00:21:49.840 --> 00:21:52.370 or evidence of specific events and phenomena 539 00:21:52.730 --> 00:21:55.280 remain out of the grasp of the average citizen. 540 00:21:55.490 --> 00:21:58.230 Whatever China knows about these unexplained events 541 00:21:58.450 --> 00:22:00.400 and its ties to national security, 542 00:22:00.650 --> 00:22:02.110 it's trying to make sure that 543 00:22:02.370 --> 00:22:03.630 nobody else knows. 544 00:22:03.890 --> 00:22:05.040 If you want to learn more, 545 00:22:05.210 --> 00:22:06.390 check out this episode 546 00:22:06.530 --> 00:22:09.360 that we did on the Pentagon UFO file releases or 547 00:22:09.360 --> 00:22:12.560 this playlist here on all of our UFO investigations. 548 00:22:12.690 --> 00:22:13.440 I'm Chris Cappi. 549 00:22:13.570 --> 00:22:15.800 Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next transmission.