Chinese residents claimed to have sighted UFOs after several mysterious lights were seen flashing in the sky of Chongqing.
While the rumours of extra-terrestrial activities were circulating among Chinese web users, a leading UFO expert claimed that the footage could be of ‘a rocket zooming into the atmosphere’.
Video emerged online shows mysterious lights moving in a linear motion in the sky in Chongqing, China (left). It disappeared and reappeared in front of one another (right)
The series of baffling videos were posted yesterday on Weibo, a Twitter-like social media platform.
Weibo user ‘wangshuashuadishua’ said the phenomenon resembled ‘a person making smoke rings while walking’; while ‘BIM’ gushed ‘the aliens finally made their visit to China, they used to go to America only’.
There were also web users claiming to have seen the same mysterious pattern appearing above other cities, including Shanghai in east China and Xinjiang Autonomous Region in north-west China.
Residents of Chongqing wondered if aliens were visiting the city after sighting the unusual lights on Wednesday night (left). Web users claimed it was also seen in other cities (right)
One influential science blogger, known as ‘Steed’s scarf’ on Weibo, has another theory.
‘Steed’s scarf’, who has more than 4.5 million Weibo followers, believed that the lights came from a moving plane and they were the aircraft’s navigation lights.
In a post on July 19, he wrote: ‘If you watch the footage carefully, the lights actually appeared in pairs. It came from a dark-coloured aircraft, so it was difficult to spot.
‘The lights appeared a few seconds on the camera but as the plane kept moving, another pair of lights appeared. So it looks like one following each other.’
Leading British UFO expert Nigal Watson, the author of Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline that the footage ‘could be of a rocket zooming into the atmosphere’.
‘The pulses of light are either blasts from its engines or reflections. Similar lights were filmed elsewhere in China, suggesting it was something of this nature,’ he said.
Chinese authorities are yet to comment on the matter.
