UFO sighting number two: Chongqing

Although people in and around Shanghai are still talking about the Hangzhou UFO sighting, alien watchers are now turning their attention to western China where another “unidentified flying object (UFO) has been seen hovering over a park in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality,” according to Shanghai Daily. Chongqing is one of China's four provincial-level direct-controlled municipalities (the other three are Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin).

The Chongqing UFO witnesses all gave similar reports to Xinhua, the government news agency: “Four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape hovered over the city's Shaping Park for over an hour.” Similar to some eyewitness account in Hangzhou on July 7.

"I stared at it and it did not move," said Mr Chen describing the Chongqing UFO incident that took place around 8 p.m. Thursday. "After hovering for an hour, the thing started to fly higher and finally out of people's sight."

Shanghai Daily reports that no official explanation has been given for the sighting.

China’s seasoned UFO sighters are not only talking about the July 7 Hangzou reports in relation to the recent Chongqing UFO sighting, but also going back to August 23, 2009 when papers reported a “UFO appeared in the sky above Beibei Binjiang Lu in Chongqing,”

The Chongqing UFO in question was “V” shaped with multiple colors, and hovered over the area for about 30 minutes before disappearing.

Click for images from last year's Chongqing UFO sighting.