2004-04-15 - Shanghai (China) - Formation

But that's when it got very interesting! These smaller, gray, oval shaped objects were traveling at speeds and in a way that....

As I don't really like to be looked at like a fool, I've always kept this story for my close friends and family for a long time but now that I just found this website I decided I should let the rest of the world know what I've seen.

Just for the record, I am Canadian, but now living and working in Shanghai, China, as a teacher. I've been living in Shanghai for now two years and this happened sometime around April 2004. Anyway, I was going to the supermarket with my girlfriend in Shanghai, China, near Jing An Temple area.

All of a sudden, I noticed something like a fireball in the sky. At first I thought it might be a meteor or something like that but as I have seen a meteor/comet previously in my life, I quickly felt it probably wasn't, mostly because of the extremely slow speed this object was moving at. After looking more carefully, I noticed it looked more like a huge, red glowing object with 3 visible glowing parts and a long red/fire-looking trail. It was moving very slowly towards west.

Suddenly, I noticed that there were other gray objects moving very fast around it! Perhaps 2 or 4 of them, I am not sure as many were visible at the same time. Once again, at first I thought it was something normal, just like jet fighters. But that's when it got very interesting! These smaller, gray, oval shaped objects were actually traveling at speeds and in a way that I've never, ever seen in my life. I think its worthy of mention that I grew up near an airport in Canada and every other year we have this huge air show I always attended. I've seen a huge variety of army aircrafts in action, including F-15s, F-18s, Vertical take off planes, F-117 (stealth airplanes) and so on so I can safely affirm that in my opinion, there is no way these could have been any aircrafts that the world knows of. These objects could stop all of a sudden, disappear, show up again, go up, down, in a way that is not possible by any know aircrafts.

Anyways, these objects seemed to move around and follow the bigger, fire-orange, glowing object with a big trail behind it. I could observe this for about 5 minutes before the big object disappeared behind tall residential towers with the smaller objects seeming to fade away as well.

This happened almost a year ago but immediately after the event I went home and tried to somehow put into images what I've seen while it was fresh in my mind. As I'm a web designer and being very familiar with the Flash software, I decided that the best way to make this look as close to reality as possible was to reproduce the objects in photoshop and animate them with Flash.

So I took a picture from the same place I observed this and put that picture as the background. I then added the big glowing object and tried to make it move at about the same speed as It was moving. Lastly, I've added the smaller, oval shaped crafts and tried to animate them as close to the way they moved as possible. I think the result is very very close to the reality of what I saw that day and I hope I could share this with the rest of the world as well. The only thing that might be slightly different from the reality is the fog, which is difficult to reproduce properly. During the actual sighting these objects were very slightly less visible than that because of the fog. But this is nonetheless a very good representation of what they looked like.


((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD))