At about 3 o'clock in the morning on June 23, 1990, due to the hot weather, many citizens in Kaifeng City were enjoying the cool outside their houses.
Suddenly, a strange light pierced the quiet sky, and people saw a long UFO that was more than ten meters long and seemed to be composed of many luminous balls flying over. People had not yet recovered from this strange phenomenon, and then heard several loud noises. Everything happened so suddenly that people were stunned.
Xu Xiaojin witnessed the scene that night. At that time, he was the deputy director of the Wuchaomen Police Station of the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau.
"I was on duty at the time. Because the weather was relatively hot, everyone was sleeping on the roof of the second floor. In the early morning, suddenly the intercom made a piercing sound. I looked up and saw flying from the southwest to the northeast in the sky. There was an orange-red fire dragon, and then there was the sound of something falling. I jumped up as soon as I turned over, and immediately called my comrades to look for it to see what had fallen."
Guo Bin was a former patrol member of Wuchaomen Police Station. On the night of June 23, he and Xu Xiaojin witnessed the unidentified object falling from the sky. "It was bright at the front, with a tail, and finally flew towards the northeast. It was very wide and long. After passing by, for about a minute or two, I felt like something was falling from the sky, like the sound of an airplane propeller, whining. , but it rang."
Both Xu Xiaojin and Guo Bin realized that something must have happened, so they hurriedly looked in the direction of the sound. They asked several houses along the way and they all said that nothing had fallen. Later, they finally found the fallen object in the courtyard of Xing Zhixiang, a citizen of No. 24 Zhuanqiao Street in front of Wuchao Gate.
Xu Xiaojin, who now works at the Shunhe Public Security Bureau in Kaifeng City, said: "What fell from the sky was a piece of metal fragment, which happened to fall in the courtyard of Xing Zhixiang's home. The metal fragment broke several roots of a Chinese chrysanthemum tree in his home. After the branch was broken, it hit his bicycle again, bending the left handlebar and flattening the frame of the bicycle."
Pursuit: Persistently wandering the streets to collect evidence
< p>After this incident was reported by the media, it attracted widespread attention and UFO enthusiasts were shocked.Wang Huanliang, Secretary-General of the China UFO Research Association, said that in recent decades, many UFO incidents have occurred around the world, but the UFO incident over Kaifeng is the only UFO incident in modern Chinese history that has both eyewitness accounts and A UFO incident with physical evidence of large metal fragments.
All this attracted the attention of Zhang Weimin, a young man who was studying in the Chemistry Department of Henan University at the time. He was very excited when he learned about this from the newspaper: "I am usually skeptical about UFO reports, but I didn't expect it to actually appear next to me. I must get to the bottom of it."
Zhang Weimin hurriedly I went to Kaifeng Daily and borrowed more than 10 letters from witnesses from reporters. According to the addresses and names on the envelopes, I rode my bicycle through the streets and visited them one by one. In the end, he compiled a witness report of more than 200 pages. In order to find the piece of metal, Zhang Weimin rushed to the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau, where several police officers were looking at the mysterious "visitor from outer space". After all, he took out his student ID card and China UFO Research Association membership card as collateral, and the police agreed to lend him the mysterious metal fragment for him to study.
Test: "It is definitely not something from the plane"
After getting the metal fragment, Zhang Weimin felt like he had found a treasure and immediately observed and measured it.
This piece of metal fragment is 527 centimeters long, 80 to 116 centimeters wide, 5 centimeters thick on the sides, with a ridge in the middle, 30 centimeters thick, and weighs about 3.5 kilograms. The color is off-white, has no metallic luster, and looks like asbestos tiles. It has high strength and good toughness. Although the bicycle was smashed, it did not deform.
In order to find out the "identity" of this piece of metal, Zhang Weimin made a special trip to Kaifeng Airport to consult relevant experts. Wang Fuyu, a mechanic who repaired the aircraft, believed that the debris may be a beam material on the spacecraft. If the debris was a material on the aircraft, the aircraft must have disintegrated at that time. However, there was no news about the crash of the aircraft at that time.
Wang Fuyu told Zhang Weimin that it was certain that this piece of metal was definitely not from the plane.
In order to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the metal samples, Zhang Weimin rushed to Luoyang and found Xu Guozhao, a senior engineer at the Luoyang 725 Research Institute.
Xu Guozhao was also very curious at the time. He used a JSM-35C scanning electron microscope manufactured by Japan Electronics Corporation to scan the metal fragments. The results show that the fragment is non-radioactive and contains elements including: 89.03% aluminum, 6.84% magnesium, 3.83% silicon, 0.30% zinc. In addition, it also contains trace amounts of iron, manganese and other elements. Its melting point is above 3000 degrees Celsius and it is extremely resistant to high temperatures. Xu Guozhao believes that it is impossible to determine whether the fragment was made by aliens based on the analysis results alone.
Confusion: The Chun tree that was injured by the fragment died soon after.
Zhang Weimin came to the place where the metal fragment fell - Xing Zhixiang's home. Xing Zhixiang's younger brother, Xing Zhijun, confirmed that the metal fragments felt cold in his hands as soon as they fell to the ground. The police who obtained the metal fragments a few minutes later also confirmed that it was indeed cold at the time. Zhang Weimin said that this is in great contrast to the common knowledge that when a spacecraft falls into the atmosphere at high speed, the heat generated by friction will cause a high temperature of about 6,000 degrees Celsius on the surface of the spacecraft.
What’s even more strange, Zhang Weimin said, is that the toon tree that was damaged by metal fragments at Xing Zhixiang’s house was still flourishing at the time, but by the end of that year it withered and never sprouted again.
Zhang Weimin also used a tape recorder to record a strange incident narrated by Xing Zhixiang himself. Xing Zhixiang said that in November 1991, he suddenly suffered from cerebral hemorrhage. At that time, Zhengzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital issued a critical illness notice, but then two aliens dressed in white came to his ward, so His illness was miraculously cured.
Based on the large amount of materials collected during the search, Zhang Weimin published "The "6.23" Incident That Sensed the Ancient City of Kaifeng" in January 1992 in the "World Quest" magazine, and later wrote an article worth tens of thousands. The article titled "1990.6.23 Dragon-shaped Flying Saucer".
Secret revealed: Experts say the fragments are ordinary aerospace materials
After graduating from Henan University, Zhang Weimin entered Kaifeng Xinghua Fine Chemical Factory to engage in technical work. In 2003, he became a member of Kaifeng Fine Chemical Factory The youngest senior engineer in the factory.
In June this year, Zhang Weimin suddenly received a call from Qi Yi, the editor-in-chief of CCTV’s science and technology department, hoping that he could cooperate with the film crew to shoot on-site and uncover the mystery of the UFO that appeared in the sky over Kaifeng 16 years ago. Subsequently, CCTV reporters found the metal fragment of the UFO that is still retained in the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau and sent it to the China Academy of Rocket Technology for analysis and inspection.
Experts from the China Academy of Rocket Technology determined that the fragment was alloy 5A06 with a melting point of several hundred degrees Celsius based on the analysis results of a scanning electron microscope, which is a common aerospace material.
There are currently thousands of spacecraft launched by humans in space. Some spacecraft will automatically fall into the atmosphere and land on the ground after a certain period of operation. Due to the irregular shape of some fragments, during the tossing and turning process, the cold air will absorb its heat and make it cool. Therefore, some fragments are cold when they first fall to the ground. Based on this, it is inferred that the UFO that appeared over Kaifeng on June 23, 1990 may be the debris of a spacecraft launched by humans when it returned to Earth.
CCTV reporters and Zhang Weimin also went to the Zhengzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital where Xing Zhixiang treated patients and checked the medical records of Xing Zhixiang's medical treatment. Medical experts determined that Xing Zhixiang's recovery was entirely the result of careful treatment by doctors. Xing Zhixiang's attending doctor said that because Xing Zhixiang was suffering from cerebral hemorrhage, he might have hallucinations and mistakenly mistake the medical staff in white clothes for aliens.
Questions: Various questions need to be explored and discovered
Zhang Weimin is a pure UFO enthusiast. He has a small piece of metal in his hand that has been preserved for 16 years. He has only one purpose - to understand its true appearance and uncover the mystery of aliens.
At present, although CCTV's report has revealed some doubts in Zhang Weimin's mind, he has also raised some new questions about this matter.
For example, why do Chinese toon trees die? Which country launched the UFO and what type of spacecraft? If it was a human spacecraft, why did it not crash after falling into pieces of metal? Why did eyewitnesses see it with naked eyes in Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places when it appeared in the sky over Kaifeng? Are there magnesium isotopes in the metal fragments? Since it is a fragment of a human spacecraft that fell out of control, it should not have an impact on electrical appliances on the ground. But at that time, the walkie-talkies of the policemen at Wuchaomen Police Station made a piercing noise. How to explain this? Sometimes it flies diagonally upward, sometimes it flies horizontally, and it can also turn in arcs. What controls its flight direction...
Are there any aliens?
Q: When did you become interested in UFOs?
Answer: When I was about 11 years old, I was watching an outdoor movie with my friends in the village one night. Suddenly, everyone saw two "moons" appearing in the sky at the same time. Then, the orange-red UFO that resembled the moon moved slowly and gradually disappeared from people's sight.
When I was young, everyone said that aliens were coming to take a peek at the people on Earth. At that time, everyone not only hoped that it would fall down to see what happened, but they were also afraid that it would actually fall and hit their head.
Q: When did China discover UFO?
Answer: The theory of UFOs in China originated from a UFO report published in the People's Daily in 1978. Since then, UFO legends have spread all over China. Even today, with the development of science and technology, UFO legends are still emerging one after another. .
Question: 16 years have passed and no results have been produced on this matter. Have you ever thought about giving up?
Answer: I think it’s nothing to spend more time and energy on something you like to do, just like some people like to use their holidays to travel. They spend money and are tired, but they are very happy. I interviewed nearly 30 witnesses at that time, from Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Pingdingshan and other places. I visited them all on double holidays, basically without delaying work and study. Later, the investigation report was published in the magazine "UFO Exploration".
Q: Has the unit leader ever interfered with you?
Answer: No, the leader said it would be fine as long as it does not affect work. In fact, through studying this incident, I have made rapid progress in scientific research, and now I have two invention patents.
In the past, I always felt that the design of a product was the result of repeated experiments by experts and could not be surpassed. However, after this incident, I always wanted to think about the problem in a different way. I always think that any product can be redesigned from another angle.
Q: After so many years, has anyone in your life still asked you about this incident?
Answer: Yes, but I never take the initiative to mention it to others. Many UFO legends are false. Most people have never seen it and are skeptical about it. I am a scientific researcher but I cannot explain this phenomenon and cannot convince them that what I say is true. , so sometimes it’s better not to say anything.
Q: Are you convinced that aliens exist?
Answer: I am a chemist and a senior engineer. There are some phenomena that cannot be explained by existing scientific knowledge, but I am very interested in them. Are there any aliens? This has yet to be explored and discovered scientifically, and no one can tell for sure now.