Case file · Official inquiry
PLA 'unidentified air situations' study
In June 2021 the South China Morning Post reported that researchers at the PLA Air Force Early Warning Academy in Wuhan urged AI tools to sort a rising number of UFO reports.
2021 CE · 30.59, 114.30 · status: official
The account
The paper, by Chen Li and colleagues, called UFOs 'unidentified air conditions' and described a tiered reporting system feeding a national database.
The sceptical view
The concern is air defence against balloons, drones and foreign aircraft, not non-human craft.