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 SUBJ*SUBJ:     CHINA URGES GLOBAL COOPERATION IN UFO RESEARCH
 SOUR SOURCE:   BEIJING XINHUA IN ENGLISH 1348 GMT 21 AUG 94
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 ((TEXT}) BEIJING, AUGUST 21 (XINHUA) -- CHINESE SCIENTISTS ARE
 URGENTLY CALLING FOR COOPERATION WORLDWIDE TO RESEARCH INTO
 *UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS (UFOs), ALSO KNOWN. AS FLYING SAUCERS.,
 MORE THAN 50 SCIENTISTS REACHED AN AGREEMENT AT AN INTERNATIONAL
 *CONF'ERENCE HERE TODAY THAT UFOS POSE A BIG CHALLENGE TO MODERN
 SCIENCE AND HAVE A SIGNIFICANT BEARING ON HUMAN LIFE.
 *  '"IT IS IMPERATIVE TO CARRY OUT A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN, BECAUSE UFOs   .
 ARE A WORLDWIDE CONCERN AND COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH IN THE AREA
 ENTAILS HELP FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS AS WELL AS THE ASSISTANCE OF
 STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY," SAID WANG CHANGTING, CHAIRMAN OF THE
 *BEIJING-BASED CHINA UFO RESEARCH ORGANIZATION.              '
 WANG WAS SPEAKING AT A CONFERENCE, WHICH ENDED HERE TODAY, HOSTED
 BY THE ORGANIZATION TO EXHIBIT FINDINGS AND EXCHANGE INFORMATION
 *ABOUT UFOS SIGHTED IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION.
 *   WANG SAID THAT HIS ORGANIZATION RECORDED SOME "SURPRISING" UFO
 CASES IN CHINA DURING THE PERIOD OF TIME LAST MONTH WHEN THE
 SHOEMAKER-LEVY COMET COLLIDED WITH JUPITER.  THOSE CASES, HE SAID,
 ARE STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION RND MAY BE THE FIRST REPORTS OF "CLOSE
 ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND" TAKING PLACE IN CHINA.
 HE DECLINED TO DISCLOSE DETAILS OF THE REPORTS.
 MORE THAN 2,000 PHOTOS, VIDEO AND AUDIO TAPES, BOOKS, MAGAZINES
 .*AND DOCUMENTS CONCERNING UFO SIGHTINGS AND RESEARCH WERE ON DISPLAY   ?
 AT TH# FOUR-DAY MEETING, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND HELD IN CHINA'AND
 ATTENDED BY RESEARCHERS FROM CHINA, JAPAN AND CHINA'S TAIWAN
 PROVINCE.                                                          ~
 CHINA HAS REPORTED MORE THAN 5,000 SIGHTINGS, OR ONE-EIGHTH OF, ~   '
 THE TOTAL WORLDWIDE, RANKING AMONG THE FIRST IN THE WORLD IN TERMS ~   ~~',
 *OF UFO SIGHTINGS AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN ITS STUDY,
 SAID WANG.                                                        a
 "WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY EXPLAINED MOST OF THE UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL,
 PHENOMENA -- THEY WERE FRAGMENTS OF MAN-MADE SATELLITES, AEROLITES,
 BALLOONS, AND LIGHTNING BOLTS," SAID WANG, A SENIOR ENGINEER, WHO
 *CLAIMS TO HAVE SPOTTED UFOs TWICE HIMSELF.
 AS TO THE REST OF THE CASES, CONVINCING EXPLANATIONS ARE STILL
 THE UNITED NATIONS IN 1978 PASSED A RESOLUTION URGING ITS MEMBERS
 *TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH ON OFOS.
 . *   WANG SAID THAT CHINA'S UFO RESEARCH SERVES TO HELP ELIMINATE
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 CLUES TOWARD SOLVING THESE GLOBAL MYSTERIES.
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