Tourist in Xi'an takes night photos of "UFOs" over Big Wild Goose Pagoda

Sometime after 10 pm on May 21, Mr. Zhang, a Shanghai tourist inadvertently noticed two purple spaceship-like objects in night view photos that he took from the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Mr. Zhang suspects that the objects are "UFOs."

On the morning of May 22, Mr. Zhang came to the editorial department with his own camera, and claimed he had photos of “aliens." In the three photos of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda taken by Mr. Zhang, the appearance of the “UFOs” was revealed by two small points of light side by side on two of the photos and a much clearer appearance of the two points of light on the third photo. These two disk-shaped "UFOs" emitted purple lights, leaving two green balloon-like trails as well.

From the photos, the two “UFOs” are moving continuously towards the Big Wild Goose Pagoda from a distance.

Winding tracks left by three light-emitting points

According to Zhang, all these photos were taken with a Canon 400D camera at around 10:30 pm of May 21. Zhang set the camera at five-second exposure, aperture at 13 and fixed it on a tripod when taking the pictures.

Zhang himself felt quite astonished when talking about the photo shooting experience. Working in Shanghai, Zhang went to Xi'an on a business trip. He intended to visit some of the famous attractions in the area. After dinner on May 21, he and his friend came to the Clock Tower to take some night view shots. They took a taxi and asked the taxi driver to recommend some other attractions in Xi'an as they still had some time after they finished taking pictures of the Bell Tower. Under the taxi driver’s recommendation, the two friends went to the North Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to take some more night shots. This was when they unexpectedly took the photos of "UFOs."