jul 7, 1978 - 10/23/1978 Lintao air base (Gansu Province), elongated sighting (Grok rendering) Dolan: "At 10:04 PM, several hundred military personnel were watching an outdoor movie ... object passed over their heads... elongated, with 2 searchlights and a glowing tail... pilot Zhou Qingtong said it was large and close to the ground. It was visible for 2 to 3 minutes, and was 'clearly not a meteor, nor a swarm of locusts or birds, nor an airplane. As we are all fighter pilots we could say this with some certainty'"
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https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-Chronology-ebook/dp/B0C94W38QY?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GA0HJz5rg1XI1vhQTilun3PP3ZJPcdqJIGvqPqjftiw.Jz6jNNopiAivpCNB-tW5t5AeYDzvdvjjWfXxpdnz9a0&dib_tag=se&keywords=UFOs+and+the+National+Security+State%3A+Chronology+of+a+Coverup%2C+1941-1973&qid=1734726610&s=books&sr=1-1Dong, Paul & Stevens, Wendelle C., UFOs over Modern China: A Survey of the Phenomenon , Translated from Chinese by the Foreign Language Bureau of Peking, (UFO Photo Archives, Tucson, AZ, 1983), p. 93-94.
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jul 7, 1978
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~ 47 years ago