.
16.05.2014
UFO sightings reported in NE China’s Heilongjiang
.
Heilongjiang (ECNS) -- Three unidentified flying objects were spotted falling from the sky and landing in two places in Heilongjiang province about 6:00 am Friday, Chinanews.com reported.
The Yi'an county government confirmed in the afternoon that Mengchang villagers heard a big noise and then saw a big ball of fire falling down to a vegetable garden belonging to a villager.
Photos taken by villagers showed that the object is a metal ball, half-covered by a layer with a jagged edge.
Two other similar objects were spotted falling from the sky and down to the neighboring Baiquan county.
The two places have been blocked off, and an investigation is underway.
.
.
Quelle: chinanews
.
Update: 18.05.2014
.
Debris falling on Heilongjiang was rocket parts
BEIJING, May 18- Authorities have identified objects that fell into northeast China's Heilongjiang Province as parts from a carrier rocket or a satellite.
Experts in the province have conducted analysis to identify the objects and the authorities are communicating on the issue with relevant parties, said a statement from the China National Space Administration on Sunday.
The province's city of Tsitsihar reported several unidentified objects which appeared to have fallen from the sky on Friday.
Quelle: Xinhua
.
Update: 19.05.2014
.
China says space debris recovered
Objects that crashed to the ground in China have been identified as space debris, state media reported, after a Russian rocket carrying a communications satellite fell back to Earth minutes after lift-off.
Qiqihar city in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, which borders Russia's far east, reported that several objects appeared to have fallen from the sky on Friday, the Xinhua news agency said.
After analysis, experts have concluded they were "parts from a carrier rocket or a satellite", Xinhua said Sunday, citing the China National Space Administration.
Authorities were communicating on the issue "with relevant parties", it added.
The report came after Russia's space officials said the Proton rocket's control engine failed Friday just over nine minutes following blastoff from the Baikonur space centre Moscow leases in Kazakhstan -- the latest blow to the country's once-proud space industry.
State television showed the carrier and its Express-AM4P satellite burning up in the upper layers of the atmosphere.
The 150-million-euro ($205-million) satellite -- built by Airbus Group's Astrium corporation -- was meant to provide Internet access to far-flung Russian regions with poor access to communication.
Quelle: globalpost
5142 Views