Incident · 19 October 1998 · Cangzhou, Hebei, China (PLA flight training base)
Cangzhou military airbase sighting
Also known as Cangzhou 1998, Changzhou 1998
Weakly sourced. Often described online as China's only officially confirmed UFO sighting, but no primary Chinese military or contemporary state-media source has been located yet. Kept for completeness; promote it only when a primary source is found.
Facts and claims
- unverified Secondary sources say several military radar stations in Hebei tracked an unidentified object over a PLA flight training base, a jet was scrambled to intercept it but was denied permission to fire, and more than 100 people on the ground saw it.
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