In Shanghai - the inspiration for Matt Groening's Futurama - it's common to see unidentified flying objects in the sky. Shangzilla doesn't normally bother getting out of bed to report these stories. The Shanghai Daily are equally bored, recently reporting "UFOs spotted in Shanghai's night sky again."


When the international media gets hold of it, like in 1999, the story gets blown out of all proportion, until the articles sink deep into the collective subconsciousness of the internet's UFOology websites with their dead links.

So why do we and other representatives of the Shanghai media bother to write about our fellow aliens' forms of transportation? To get us more international readers? No. To sell UFO pictures to the western media for high prices? No.


The sensational aspect for us, that is captured in all three of these pictures, is: Shanghai had a clear sky! Yes, there it is. Our breaking news: believe it or not, it happened in 1942, 1999, and 2007.

Here you find the clear smogless sky, and of course, one of them damn UFOs had to fly right into it, spoiling our beautiful evidence picture.