ufo sighting locations Chinese 'UFO' sighting shines light on recent extra-terrestrial news

UFOs are in the news again this week, as ABC News and others reported on what was apparently the eighth alleged sighting of a UFO in China in less than six months. The news of an apparent uptick in Chinese sightings comes on the heels of announcements by the United States and Britain that they are releasing official papers documenting government investigations of UFO sightings, some stretching back as far as the 1940s.
Chinese claims of UFO sightings on the rise
Claims of UFO sightings are rare in China, and only a very small number of those have happened in the last few decades. But there have been eight incidents in just a few months. The unusually compact time frame of these sightings has the Internet and media abuzz, despite the Chinese government's insistence that the previous seven alleged UFO's were merely military experiments, according to The Huffington Post.

Former Air Force members claim government cover-up
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Air Force Times and others reported that several former Air Force officers met with the National Press Club to urge the U.S. government to reveal its cover-up of UFO interference with American military exercises involving nuclear missiles. Also, they allege, at times it disabled the weapons systems themselves. The men had brought declassified government documents and claimed vivid recollections of the events, both of which they asserted would validate their allegations.
Former missile launch officer Robert Salas, who worked at the Malmstrom Air Force Base, and former missile combat crew commander Bruce Fenstermacher, who worked at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, both claim that they reported the incidents to their superiors, only to be brushed aside and told to keep silent, according to the Air Force Times. Air Force officials had no comment, referring back to Project Blue Book and a 2005 document stating that there were no credible reasons to re-open government investigations into UFOs.
Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book had made headlines of its own in 2004, when it was declassified under the Freedom of Information Act and handed over to the National Archives. It is the record of the U.S. government's investigation into thousands of reported incidents of UFO sightings between 1947 to 1969, when the project was shut down due to lack of evidence of a threat to national security or the existence of extraterrestrials in general, according to the Archives. It has been in the news frequently since that time, and it was cross-referenced in an article in the Los Angeles Times this week, bringing Project Blue Book back into the limelight.
British government releases UFO inquiries
Just as the U.S. revealed its failure to find any extraterrestrial life on Earth, so too has the British government in recent months revealed its study of the subject as well. The British National Archives acquired papers from its own government's UFO inquiries in August. According to the Archives, the papers contain a vast store of documents and parliamentary questions related to the government's futile investigations into alleged UFO sightings between 1995 and 2003.