On Thursday July 2 at around 8.30pm thousands of residents of the Chinese city of Chengdu witnessed a UFO moving across the sky above their homes. This is being treated as a massive UFO event by Chinese news outlets.

Photo (at right) and a video (below) have already surfaced.

Xinhua, China's government news agency, reported that thousands of residents ran from their homes, even in pajamas, to see the bizarre and unexplainable craft. Many were subsequently seen debating the event for hours after the UFO disappeared.

The pulsating UFO was described by witnesses as being a luminous blue color that changed to red from time to time.

The head of the Chengdu Buddhist Association Mr Zhang Yang, who witnessed the UFO declared the object a 'Heavenly Body' and noted that it could not have been a Chinese lantern, weather balloon or kite.

All News Web recently exposed China's 'Area 51' as being in the Chengdu district. It is also believed that a crashed UFO was retrieved from the area in 1947, only days after the Roswell incident.

Many Chinese UFO researchers are therefore not surprised that a large number of sightings take place in the region on a yearly basis.

Sources: Xinhua Now