Zhangye abduction letter

A young man in Zhangye, Gansu, wrote that at midnight on 10 April 1985 a saucer's beam took him aboard with 'little green men'.

1985 CE · 38.93, 100.45 · status: claim

The sceptical view

Purple Mountain Observatory astronomer Liu Yan, who answered some 2,000 such letters, judged it to show too many signs of fabrication.

Sources

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