THE 100th BALLOON - THE KITE THAT ATE SHANGHAI
From Tim Beckley, my buddy for 45 years, and http://www.health-sky.com/html/ufos-spotted-in-shanghais-night-sky-picturesvideo.html
Gu Jia
Shanghai Daily
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:13 EDT
MANY Shanghai residents have called media outlets over the past few days to report spotting unidentified flying objects in the night skies.
Most of the callers that night live in Yangpu and Minhang districts.
They said they saw an object hanging in the sky, shinning in red lights.
The "Kite" That Ate Shanghai
“The sky was very clear, so you could see it with your naked eyes or ordinary telescopes,” they said.
"UFO" seen in Shanghai on August 27,2007.
MANY Shanghai residents have called media outlets over the past few days to report spotting unidentified flying objects in the night skies. The latest report came on Sunday night, Eastday.com said today.
Most of the callers that night live in Yangpu and Minhang districts. They said they saw an object hanging in the sky, shinning in red lights.
"The sky was very clear, so you could see it with your naked eyes or ordinary telescopes," they said.
A resident recalled that the object first appeared in the southeast at dusk, and "it just hovered there, with no obvious movements."
Some other residents reported the objected they saw on Sunday night was shinning in yellow or blue lights.
The city receives a handful of UFO reports every year, the report said, noting it has been seven years since local authorities went a full year without such a report.
Balloon? Gleaming Kite? UFO?
Local meteorology experts said most unidentified flying objects turn out to be weather balloons or a gleaming kite.
The balloons themselves don't give out any light but may be surrounded by lights reflected from nearby buildings, experts said.
An unidentified flying object seen by many people on the night of April 11 over Shanghai was finally confirmed to be a kite by experts from the city's Sheshan Observatory.
Nena - 99 Red Balloons Lyrics
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons
With the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by
99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by
[Instrumental Interlude]
99 Knights of the airway
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silverhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by
As 99 red balloons go by
99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
(for younger readers, context is everything, so read this:
And my long-time friend author Brad Steiger -
SHADOW WORLD
True Encounters with Beings from the Darkside
By Brad Steiger
Anomalist Books
Trade Paperback, $14.95
ISBN: 1933665270
270 pages
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933665270/theanomalist
A Good Review -
Shadow World: Steiger's latest, and arguably one of his best, August 29, 2007 By Micah A. Hanks "Micah A. Hanks" (NC, USA) -
Of all the people one may associate with in the course of a lifetime, the brightest and happiest among them are the ones who, perhaps due to their will to abide lawfully and in harmony with their surroundings, often maintain a strange attraction to darkness. Author Brad Steiger is no exception, and perhaps his extraordinary charity and goodness helped allow him to draw from the depths of the darker nature of our selves for his latest work, Shadow World: True Encounters with Beings from the Darkside. Steiger, having conducted research through five decades and across four continents, concludes that a richly populated Shadow World exists all around us; a haven for the things that man has instinctually feared since birth, and will continue to question until the end of time.
As influential as he is eloquent, Brad Steiger is the only writer who has ever scared me, and yet that same fear has kept me glued to the pages of his books for as long as I can remember. For those of you who dare to be frightened by the strange truths Steiger will reveal in this latest work, in summary I must add this quote from T. S. Elliot:
"Between the conception and the existence... between the essence and the descent, falls the Shadow."
-Micah A. Hanks
And Let's not forget my own books for sale, 2024 -
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Allen-Greenfield/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAllen+Greenfield
Click to viewGu Jia
Shanghai Daily
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:13 EDT
MANY Shanghai residents have called media outlets over the past few days to report spotting unidentified flying objects in the night skies.
Most of the callers that night live in Yangpu and Minhang districts.
They said they saw an object hanging in the sky, shinning in red lights.
The "Kite" That Ate Shanghai
“The sky was very clear, so you could see it with your naked eyes or ordinary telescopes,” they said.
"UFO" seen in Shanghai on August 27,2007.
MANY Shanghai residents have called media outlets over the past few days to report spotting unidentified flying objects in the night skies. The latest report came on Sunday night, Eastday.com said today.
Most of the callers that night live in Yangpu and Minhang districts. They said they saw an object hanging in the sky, shinning in red lights.
"The sky was very clear, so you could see it with your naked eyes or ordinary telescopes," they said.
A resident recalled that the object first appeared in the southeast at dusk, and "it just hovered there, with no obvious movements."
Some other residents reported the objected they saw on Sunday night was shinning in yellow or blue lights.
The city receives a handful of UFO reports every year, the report said, noting it has been seven years since local authorities went a full year without such a report.
Balloon? Gleaming Kite? UFO?
Local meteorology experts said most unidentified flying objects turn out to be weather balloons or a gleaming kite.
The balloons themselves don't give out any light but may be surrounded by lights reflected from nearby buildings, experts said.
An unidentified flying object seen by many people on the night of April 11 over Shanghai was finally confirmed to be a kite by experts from the city's Sheshan Observatory.
Nena - 99 Red Balloons Lyrics
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons
With the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
Where 99 red balloons go by
99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by
[Instrumental Interlude]
99 Knights of the airway
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silverhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by
As 99 red balloons go by
99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
(for younger readers, context is everything, so read this:
And my long-time friend author Brad Steiger -
SHADOW WORLD
True Encounters with Beings from the Darkside
By Brad Steiger
Anomalist Books
Trade Paperback, $14.95
ISBN: 1933665270
270 pages
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933665270/theanomalist
A Good Review -
Shadow World: Steiger's latest, and arguably one of his best, August 29, 2007 By Micah A. Hanks "Micah A. Hanks" (NC, USA) -
Of all the people one may associate with in the course of a lifetime, the brightest and happiest among them are the ones who, perhaps due to their will to abide lawfully and in harmony with their surroundings, often maintain a strange attraction to darkness. Author Brad Steiger is no exception, and perhaps his extraordinary charity and goodness helped allow him to draw from the depths of the darker nature of our selves for his latest work, Shadow World: True Encounters with Beings from the Darkside. Steiger, having conducted research through five decades and across four continents, concludes that a richly populated Shadow World exists all around us; a haven for the things that man has instinctually feared since birth, and will continue to question until the end of time.
As influential as he is eloquent, Brad Steiger is the only writer who has ever scared me, and yet that same fear has kept me glued to the pages of his books for as long as I can remember. For those of you who dare to be frightened by the strange truths Steiger will reveal in this latest work, in summary I must add this quote from T. S. Elliot:
"Between the conception and the existence... between the essence and the descent, falls the Shadow."
-Micah A. Hanks
And Let's not forget my own books for sale, 2024 -
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Allen-Greenfield/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAllen+Greenfield