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Ghost Riders in the Sky
by Scott Corrales
FATE :: May 2007

On January 8 2006, The Epoch Times—an English-language electronic newspaper published on mainland China—reported a highly curious study. Without giving a specific date or location, it said that six pilots of the Chinese Air Force’s Flying Performance Team (the equivalent of our own Blue Angels) were witnesses to a large formation of unidentified aircraft flying toward them at top speed, very nearly resulting in a mid-air collision but for the astonishing reflexes of the pilots involved.

The second most senior pilot of the squad, an officer named Feng Yi with over 3,000 hours of flight time under his belt, discussed the eerie experience that befell his team over the Bohai Sea on a television broadcast. After the Chinese flyers had reached an altitude of 21,000 feet, they were confronted by a large formation of aircraft heading toward their position from the southeast. The pilots reported this highly irregular situation to the air traffic controllers, only to be advised that there were no other aircraft in the skies at the time.

But all six pilots agreed on having seen the massed aircraft that forced them to take evasive action. The true high-strangeness detail about this incident, however, was the fact that the intercepting aircraft “all represented different countries from different periods of history; propeller types as well as jets were included in the formations.”

The Epoch Times went on to suggest that the event was either a collective delusion shared by the aerobatic pilots, or a more intriguing possibility, that some sort of electromagnetic field having the same properties as one of our commonplace VHS units may have been at work. Other possibilities, it suggested, were that “a scene from another dimension or even another time” was being shown to the fliers.

Five months after the strange events in Chinese waters, veteran UFO researcher Stan Gordon from Pennsylvania received reports of a strange “bomber-like” aircraft operating in the skies over the Keystone State in July 2006. However, his inquiries proved that the initial hypothesis of an antique warplane headed to a vintage air show was unfounded. “[There were] no reports of any such aircraft landing or refueling at Allegheny County Airport where this is usually done,” writes Gordon. “While an air show is scheduled this weekend in the Pittsburgh area, it is my understanding that no vintage aircraft are scheduled to appear.”

Such high-strangeness events involving strange airplanes are nothing new ...

Read the rest of this article in the May 2007 issue of FATE

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