UFOs in Ancient China

 

UFOs in Ancient China

By Andreas Faber Kaiser

 

Chinese tests such as the Feng Shen Yen I, the Liu Shi Ch'un Ch'iu and the Shan Hai Jing regale readers with tales of aerial combat or UFO sightings. The Feng Shen Yen I, for example, says how No-cha, "astride his wheel of fire and wind" defeated Chang Kuoi Fung after having summoned legions of "fiery silver dragons" to his aid. This is just one example.

Dragons and serpents are legendary similes. The ones mentioned above are flying dragons, much like the serpents we have seen linked with the Australian wondjinas, to Quetzalcoatl, Cucumatz and Kukulkan in Mesoamerica. The Shan Hai Jing also contains a chapter entitles "Da-Huang-Si-Jing" referring to the gods who live in the West. These gods had human faces and bird bodies, much like the Yakshas of ancient India, in which the bird body is a direct allusion to the corresponding deity's ability to fly, with two green serpents in their ears and two red one son their feet.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen offers an intriguing quote in his book Life of Christ. It is intriguing in that it appears to relate with the great planetary annunciation of the arrival of Jesus, but the annunciation had taken place centuries in advance in China, according to the chronology of the dynasty in question, as Bishop Sheen states that the annals of the Celestial Kingdom state the following: "In the 24th year of Chao Wang, in the Zhou Dynasty (who ruled between 1027 and 221 before the birth of Christ), on the 8th day of the 4th moon, a light appeared in the southwestern reaches that shone upon the king's palace. The monarch, startled by this glow, queried the sages. They showed him books which indicated that the prodigy heralded the arrival of the Great Saint of the West, whose religion was to be brought to their country."

This gives rise to the endless repertoire of aerial phenomena, the unidentified flying objects that have prowled the Earth's atmosphere since time immemorial, hitherto linked to the concept of one or many divinities. This relationship with the divine remains latent in a considerable share of cases even in our own 20th century, yet the chronicles of that age show documented phenomena with no divine origin - simply the manifestation of flying objects whose origin, essence and meaning or purpose were unknown to them

Here, then, is one of the oldest of these accounts. The Chinese volume "Natural Science" notes the following in its 10th chapter: "During the reign of Xia Ji (approximately 4000 years ago), two suns became visible on the banks of the Feichang River, one rising in the east and the other setting in the west, roaring like thunder."

Rather more recently, author Wang Jia, who lived under the Tsin Dynasty, tells a story that took place in the 4th century B.C. in his book "The Rekindling": "During the thirty years of the reign of Emperor Yao, an immense vessel floated over the waves of the Western Sea. On this ship, a powerful light would turn on at night and turn off by day. Once every twelve years, the vessel would travel through space, for which reason it was called the Moon Ship or the Star Ship."

Zhao Xigu, another historian who lived in the days of the Sung Dynasty between the 960 and 1279 A.D., gives us an even clearer picture of this Heavenly Ship. In fact, his book Observation of the Heavens gives us the approximate measurements of the craft and suggests its metallic nature, writing: "There was a large heavenly craft made by one Yan Zun, displayed during the Tang Dynasty (618-90g A.D.) in the Palace of Virtue. It length exceeded 50 feet, made a resonant sound like iron and copper, and was perfectly immune to rust. It rose into the sky before returning later, and did so continuously,"

Ke Yang, a professor of Chinese popular literature who teaches at Lanzhou University in Gansu Province, came across numerous references to unidentified flying objects in ancient Chinese texts. Eight of these references are of particular interest, and we shall examine them in the following pages. I am transcribing the two chronologically oldest cases of this series of eight cases.

The first text reads thus: "One day in January in the 2nd year (314 A.D.) in the reign of Emperor Jianxing, the sun plummeted to earth and three other suns arose together over the horizon. On another day, the sun descended rapidly to the ground while three other suns flew side by side after having risen in the West, heading toward the East"

The second text reads as follows: "In the 3rd year - (317 A.D.) in the reign of Emperor Jianxing, during the month of January, three suns shone at the same time in the heavens, tinted with multiple hues. The suns were surrounded by halos and were suspended ten meters over the ground. At their core, these suns had a greenish cast."

I advise that the reader be mindful of the UFO cases described by Pliny the Elder in the skies of ancient Rome, which were also visited by the same curious clusters of suns.

But let us continue with the ancient Chinese texts. Historian Zhang Zuo offers the following description under the Tang Dynasty in his History of Power and Opposition: "Qui Jingye took up arms with his forces against the Emperor, and both armies strove bitterly against each other. Above their heads, large formations of stars could be seen to fight each other, withdrawing and approaching with their formations. This situation went on for three nights."

Who in blazes is playing cards with human history? What hidden power concerns itself with decisive incursions into human history? I have already insinuated one such incursion when discussing Yahweh's cruel protection of Moses, and will refer to it later on, discussing the interference of allies descending from the heavens to fight in battles or confrontations between belligerent human groups.

In another passage of his book, historian Zhang Zuo writes: "on the 29th of May of the 2nd year of the reign of Emperor Kai Yuan, a great moving star, as large as a vat, flew in the northern sky, accompanied by other lesser ones. This lasted until dawn."

Another text discovered by professor Ke Yang attests that "in the 6th year of the Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty (in other words, 879 A.D.), in the month of November, two suns were seen to strive in heated battle. On another day that same month, two suns arose together and fought in the sky, merging into a single sun before the  astonished eyes of all spectators."

The reader may notice that the information is solid regarding dates, and what ancient texts tell us is exactly what many people who have witnessed UFO maneuvers in our 20th century are telling us. This last example stands out due to merging of two UFOs into a single body.

But let us continue with the Tang UFOs. Another book was written in the age, bearing the title "New Book of the Tang", in whose 22nd chapter, devoted to Astronomy, we read: "In the 2nd year of the reign of Emperor Qianfu, two stars - one red, the other white,- whose size was twice that of a human head, flew together toward the southeast. Once on the ground, they slowly increased in size and gave off powerful beams of light. The following year, a moving star shone like an enormous torch during the day. It had the size of a human head. Having come from the northeast, it flew sweetly over the region before vanishing toward the northwest.

For those readers unfamiliar with the phenomenon, it should be noted that the sizes given for unidentified flying objects always refer not to their actual size, but their apparent size.

Elsewhere, the New Book of the Tang states: "In March of the 2nd year of the reign of Emperor Tian-Tu, a great star emerged from the heavenly vault. It was five times larger than a bushel and flew toward the northwest. It descended to within 30 meters of the ground. Its upper half gave off fiery bolts of an orange hue. Its lights extended a length greater than five meters. It moved like a serpent, escorted by numerous small stars that vanished in the wink of an eye. A vapor was seen to rise high into the heavens."

A final case making reference to unidentified flying objects in the New Book of the Tang says: "In March of the 3rd year of the Emperor Guang Hua (900 A.D.), a great star as large as a bushel, yellow in hue, flew toward the southwest. Its head was pointed and ended in a cylindrical shape."

Another case we have gathered from the Tang era appears in the ancient text Stories of Strange Things, written in the times of the aforementioned dynasty. We read: "In the 7th year, under the reign of Kai Yuan of the Tang Dynasty, Peityo was appointed governor of Kuang-Zhou. One night in autumn, the sky became suddenly bright. It returned to normal much later and the darkness of night covered the land again. Months later, a sailor who had come from lands in the far south said to the governor: On the 11th of august, at night, I sailed the sea. Suddenly, a great turtle emerged before my ship. It turned to look northward, and its eyes, as bright as two suns, were able to light up a distance of 500 kilometers, with small objects becoming visible. Much later, the darkness returned and night was normal once again.

This, then, is our brief summary of unexplained events regarding unidentified flying objects, or suggesting a non-human technology, in the skies of ancient China. We shall return to these latitudes later, with new cases from subsequent eras.

 [Cr: Andreas Faber Kaiser, Las Nubes del Engaño, Ed. Planeta 1984. Translation © 2026 S. Corrales, Inexplicata]