UFO found by workers in Chinese forest turns out to be nose cone of Chang’e 4 lunar rocket
Fairing was from Long March 4C used to launch China’s Queqiao relay satellite into orbit
Two men from southeastern China got a surprise on their way to work last week when they discovered the nose cone of a lunar rocket peeking out from a clump of bushes.
Huang Yijin and Zhang Hejin were walking through a forest near the village of Wuchang, Fujian province, about 5.30am when they stumbled on their unlikely find, Chinese news portal Dianwang Toutiao reported.
The power plant workers’ first thought was that the large metal fairing was part of a crashed UFO, so they called the police.
Authorities soon confirmed, however, that rather than coming from an alien spacecraft, the cone was in fact from the Long March 4C rocket used to launch China’s Queqiao relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwestern China’s Sichuan province on May 20, about 2km west of where it was found the next day.