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We've always found China's obsession with UFOs highly amusing, so this interview on GoKuming particularly struck our fancy. The site spoke to Zhang Yifang 张一方), founder and former director of the Kunming UFO Research Association, who recently organized the 2009 International Astronomy Year and Extraterrestrial Life Forum at Kunming's Dongfeng Plaza.
The event, which ran from October 31 to November 6, featured exhibitions of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena in China, as well as a host of UFO footage appraisers. In the interview, Zhang explains that he hopes the forum will help publicize UFO knowledge... and that he can one day make friends with extraterrestrials.
"I am convinced, because I am a physicist and an astronomer," he says at one point, possibly replying to the question about how a man of science (he teaches Physics at Yunnan University) can entertain ideas about aliens. "I am convinced that extraterrestrials exist."
At least he has the support of his family (a wife and son), who seem just as convinced as he is that the truth is out there. They even recount how all of them witnessed a UFO together. The family that seeks together, stays together, we suppose.
Check out the video on GoKunming.
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It is said that the more intelligent a man is, the more likely he is to believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials. Zhang Yifang is a VERY intelligent man.
As a nuclear physicist who has lectured at over 700 colleges and professional groups in 18 countries on the topic "Flying Saucers ARE Real" , I must applaud Dr. Yifang
for speaking out. The evidence is overwhelming as noted in my books such as "Flying Saucers and Science" that Earth is
being visited by Extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Stanton Friedman www.stantonfriedman.com
I for one am aware of MSM portrayal of UFO believers as mental cases and I don't appreciate that attitude one little bit. I hope I didn't detect that kind of tongue in cheek approach in this article.