A meteor-monitoring network to be completed this year may provide more solid evidence to confirm or debunk UFO sighting claims.
The city will establish six monitoring stations to observe flying objects that cross the sky, the first of their kind in the country.
With 3 million yuan ($441,897.78) in government funding, the network will mainly be used to track falling stars, comets and meteors of a certain brightness, said Kou Wen, the Beijing Planetarium expert in charge of the project.
Interesting that the Chinese will be the first to publicly fund such a worthwhile effort, provided that UFOs are not excluded from the more prosaic astronomical objects listed above. To read the rest of the article, click here.