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5 min readIn 1060, a respected Chinese scholar named Shen Kao began documenting a recurring phenomenon that local residents called the "glowing pearl." It would appear over a lake, float on the surface like the setting sun, cast shadows for ten miles, and then vanish at tremendous speed. People built a pavilion to watch it. This was not a one-off event—it continued for more than a decade. And it is only one entry in a vast archive of ancient Chinese records describing objects that behave exactly like the UFOs reported today.
Ancient witnesses, modern descriptions
The host argues that the most striking feature of China's hidden UFO history is not the strangeness of the accounts but their consistency across a thousand years. Shen Kao's glowing pearl moved between bodies of water—a detail that maps directly onto modern reports of transmedium craft that transition between air and water. Witnesses described a gold-colored ring around the object, blinding light, and an opening that revealed a fist-sized luminous interior. In 1071, the poet Su Dongpo reported a bright object that illuminated the night sky like daytime, made no sound, and executed an abrupt sharp turn before disappearing. The host emphasizes that these observers had no reference points—no airplanes, no satellites, no rockets. They were describing something that should not have existed, and they recorded it with the same ca
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:59) **Series Introduction and Context for Part Two** - Host Steven Dean sets up the episode as the conclusion of a two-part series on China's hidden UFO history, promising a twist from modern reports to ancient accounts.
- 2 (03:47) **Ancient Chinese Records: The "Glowing Pearls" of 1060** - Early scholars documented strange glowing orbs in the sky, identical to modern UAP reports, starting with a well-respected man named Shen Kao.
- 3 (10:53) **Credibility of Ancient Accounts: Shen Kao's Reputation** - The host argues that Shen Kao's meticulous reputation as a natural historian makes his account one of the most credible ancient Chinese UFO records.
- 4 (12:02) **The 1071 Sighting by Poet Su Dongpo** - A second well-known figure, the poet Su Dongpo, reported a bright object that illuminated the night sky like daytime, similar to the 1060 event, and added a key detail about silence and maneuverability.
- 5 (19:54) **A 500-Year-Old Abduction Account from 1528** - The host introduces an abduction story from a 500-year-old historical manuscript, featuring a stonemason who encounters a disc-shaped craft and beings with three eyes.
- 6 (26:27) **The Manuscript as Historical Evidence** - The 1528 story was found in a single page of a 500-page imperial manuscript, surrounded by mundane topics like music and medicine, which the host argues makes it a credible outlier.
- 7 (31:57) **The 1982 Nationwide Sighting Wave** - The host briefly covers a mass sighting in the early 1980s that saw hundreds of thousands of people witness a massive glowing white halo over multiple provinces.
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Show Notes
In this continuation, Stephen Diener concludes his series on the sightings and experiences of UFOs in China with some remarkable and maybe even unexplainable first hand accounts of UFOs from 1,000 years ago. Along with a couple of inexplicable abduction accounts as well. These are stories that will absolutely stick with you after you hear them...
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