Flight crews' lights of August 2011

Around 9 pm on 20 August 2011 aircrews and residents from Shanghai to Beijing, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia reported clusters of lights in the sky.

2011 CE · 31.15, 121.80 · status: explained

The sceptical view

Astronomer Liu Yan traced them to a point about 200 km west of Bayannur and attributed them to a spacecraft launch, like the 1982 halo.

Connections in the atlas

• The 1982 halo over northern China

Sources

1. Sixth Tone: The astronomer who calmed China's UFO craze