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SUBJECT: CHINESE EXPLORE UFOs FILE: UFO2787
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MUFONET-BBS GROUP - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK
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UFOLOGY NEWS - WIRE
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:=START= XMT: 06:54 Mon May 11 EXP: 07:00 Tue May 12 :
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:CHINESE SCIENTISTS MEET TO EXPLORE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING :
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:OBJECTS :
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:BEIJING (MAY 11) UPI - Chinese scientists are huddling this :
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:week to explore the latest mysteries of unidentified flying :
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:objects, from reports of sightings and abductions to claims :
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:that Chinese mystics are in contact with life on other :
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:planets. :
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: :
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:The nearly 200 researchers from around the country are :
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:meeting in Beijing at a conference sponsored by the China :
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:UFO Research Society, the national organization that :
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:coordinates studies in China of ''fei die,'' which in :
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:Chinese means ''flying saucer.'' :
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: :
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:The society, known by its English acronym CURO, is engaged :
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:in research that spans the gamut from cold science to the :
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:weird and wacky, including efforts to speak to outer space :
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:without all the high-tech gadgetry employed by Western :
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:researchers. :
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: :
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:''One of our important missions is to establish a way for :
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:people on Earth to communicate with other planets without :
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:resorting to modern communications methods,'' said Wang :
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:Changting, the research society's affable director. :
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: :
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:Nearly 5,000 UFO-type sightings have been reported in China :
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:since the late 1970s, with all but around 200 later :
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:discounted as natural or man- made objects such as weather :
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:phenonema and aircraft. :
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:The unsolved cases include sightings of floating :
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:basketballs, orange-lit washbasins and flying straw hats. :
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:Around 40 of those are the ''close encounters'' variety, :
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:with reports of contact or kidnappings by vaguely :
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:described extraterrestrials. :
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: :
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:In one case, a teacher in eastern Tianjin reported seeing a :
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:shimmering ball overhead as he bicycled around a park at :
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:night. He lost consciousness and awoke the next morning at :
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:the park gate to find the time on his watch an hour behind :
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:the actual time. :
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: :
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:A month later, he suddenly recalled having been abducted :
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:onto a strange craft by two short beings in unidentifiable :
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:space suits. :
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: :
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:Along with those reports, and research into related topics :
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:like atmospheric phenomena, some of the 3,500 CURO members :
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:nationwide are studying claims by Chinese mystics that they :
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:can locate UFOs or communicate with aliens. :
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:Some claim to use ''qigong,'' a practice that marshals the :
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:Chinese concept of life energy, to make contact. Although :
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:qigong is an accepted exercise discipline, adherents also :
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:make fantastic claims of supernatural powers or faith :
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:healing ability. :
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:''Sometimes we cannot mix Western reality and Oriental :
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:belief,'' shrugged Wang. ''Of course there are some :
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:illogical things involved, but the line between science and :
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:mysticism cannot be separated only as illogic.'' :
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:Among other areas of research are theoretical and practical :
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:studies of space flight, the possibility of life on other :
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:planets and the potential impact of UFOs on the Earth's :
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:environment. :
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:UFO research is taken seriously in China. Several years ago,:
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:a UFO sighting over an open air film show in rural south :
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:China sparked a stampede by panicked villagers that left two:
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:people dead and 300 injured. :
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:The Chinese military, which sometimes scrambles air force :
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:jets to try to catch a glimpse of UFOs, conducts its own UFO:
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:studies and maintains contact with CURO researchers, Wang :
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:said. :
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:But not even scientists are immune to the more outlandish :
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:aspects of UFOs, he added, noting a report by a CURO :
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:researcher who claimed he had been ''invited'' aboard a :
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:space craft and taken to a planet thousands of light years :
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:away. :
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:''This man was a scientist, so we don't believe that what he:
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:told us is altogether nonsense,'' Wang said. ''But we can't :
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:explain it.'' :
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