I am not delving into this in detail since no one appears that interested in these cases.
On May 27, 1994, at the Hongqi Forest Farm just outside of Wuchang located in China's Heilongjiang Province a group of loggers witnessed a glowing decending and crashing into either Fenghuanshan or Phoenix Mountain. Thinking that it was a crashed helicopter or plane the loggers halted their work and began to trek the mountain in an effort to find the wreck. One of these loggers was named Meng Zhaoguo who had a fifth-grade education and worked as a farmer.
He was born in 1967 and was 27 years old at the time of these events. Although some had more selfless motives such as rescuing survivors, others were only interested in collecting and selling the scrap metal. The loggers only changed their mind after finding no wreckage or even smoke and fire as well as fears that the authorities may collectively punish the whole group due to the actions of the select few only there to steal scrap metal from the wreck.
10 days later on June 6, Meng alongside his niece Li Honghai decided to make another trek up the mountain to find the wreck themselves. The two did find the crash site only it wasn't a helicopter. The two found a tadpole-shaped saucer that's yellow or beige in color with two tails. A reflective metallic disc is contained within the disc part of the craft which is where a yellow glow came from. It was 3-4 meters high and 150 meters long. The object soon made a shrieking noise and the two were struck by electricity which they described as being "tased" prompting the two to run away in a panic. Meng also reported suffering from immense eye pain. When he regained his composure he explained that it felt like all objects he was carrying with metal such as hammers, screwdrivers, and watches began producing electric shocks.
Meng told his story to the chairman of the logger's union a man named Zhou Ying. On June 9 (It was originally going to be June 8 but rain and bad weather delayed it) the chairman organized a 30-man expedition to try and find the object Meng claimed to have seen. Even if the object wasn't as he described it or even if he was lying all the loggers still saw something crash into the forest.
The expedition made use of a telescope so they could observe anything harmful without putting themselves in danger. They used their telescope when they were around 100 meters away from the location Meng claimed to have seen the object. The telescope was passed around from logger to logger and none of them saw anything aside from a yellow sheet and some of the rocks being cracked and trees burnt
The story gets changed once the telescope was passed along to Meng. When Meng was given the telescope he could in fact see the object and more. Meng claimed that he could not only see the object but a humanoid or "alien" standing nearby something he was alone in seeing. Meng was recounting what he was seeing to his fellow loggers and claimed that the creature got out a "matchbox" like object and shot a bright light out of it towards his forward. Not long afterwards Meng's body began to tremble and he then let out a loud scream and fell to the ground.
Once he fell Meng began to violently convulse and shake violently. The loggers had to hold him down and later restrain him as they carried him to a small shed nearby while others continued searching for any wreckage. He kept screaming "Light" during the whole time and only stopped when on the way to the shed his head was covered by a hat and clothes. Meng continued to scream and convulse telling the loggers not to hold him down due to the alien still being present. Eventually, though Meng stopped talking about aliens or creatures but various unusual things continued to happen.
For starters, Meng began to behave strangely, he suddenly stood upside down on his hands with Meng being tall enough to break the shed with his legs and feet (The roof was low so most inside had to be crouching) requiring 5 men to hold him down. A local doctor from the nearest town was sent to examine Meng. He was mostly fine aside from one oddity. His forehead was at a much higher temperature than the rest of his body and a portion of his eyebrows were burned off. His eyes were also wide open and Meng's his eyes were dull, his tongue was stiff, and his eyeballs would sometimes rotate rapidly from side to side. Some witnesses (albeit not all) even stated that he frothed at the mouth at times. However, even doing this examination proved difficult as Meng appeared to suffer from a sudden case of metallophobia as he had a fear of iron and iron objects. He would fight with his fellow villagers to get any iron away from him and that included getting in an altercation with the doctor to get his stethoscope away from his body. He only calmed down (temporarily) after everyone removed their watches, belts and left their iron tools outside the shed. The doctor did another test where he lit a cigarette and moved it closer and closer to his eyes and eyelashes but Meng didn't blink once.
Later that afternoon Meng Zhaoyi and a security guard named Meng Xianhai supported Meng and brought him back home and let him rest on a sofa much to the despair of his mother who couldn't explain her son's behaviour. His wife Jiang Ling was also a witness to the scars and burns.
The police and reporters began their own heading toward the mountain. Officers also conducted house-to-house visits and interviews to ask anyone else if they saw an object in the sky. The police's investigation only lasted one day and all they had to show for it was that some of the residents outside of the logging camp and forest farm also saw an object descending from the sky. But aside from that the police had nothing.
More oddities occurred in the area during the following weeks. The temperature in the area suddenly dropped to freezing levels with there being snowfall. Heilongjiang is China's most Northeastern Province and shares a border with Russia so it's no stranger to cold weather and snow. But in spite of that, it was still unusual for snowfall and negative temperatures in June. Witnesses, loggers and residents also reported another sighting. They reported seeing a massive tornado covering half of Phoenix Mountain. The tornado was strangely shaped thin at the top and bulged at the bottom, and inside the funnel, they saw flashing red and blue lights.
Meng would spend most of his time sleeping or as witnesses described it "falling into a coma" During the next month Meng would scream, convulse, wave his hands, wander and sleepwalk down the streets in a trance-like state and sometimes even write non-Chinese symbols and letters which no one was able to ascertain the meaning of. At a glance, they looked like Latin or Cyrillic letters but Meng only had a fifth-grade education and only knew Mandarian. Meng would constantly be in and out of hospitals where he would have brief moments of total lucidity. Meng "woke up/recovered" on July 17, 1994, and had quite the story to tell.
He claimed that he was in a "different dimension" from June 9-July 17 and his "trip" ended when he met with a "female alien", standing at 3 meters (9'8") tall with 6 fingers. This was the only thing he found odd about her as she was humanoid in every other form. And during this time he was no longer in "another dimension" but instead his home. She was wearing tight clothes with only her head and body being exposed. He said that the reason why people saw him constantly waving his hands was that he was fighting her off. And why was she fighting her off? Well here is the part of the title that made you all click on this write-up (I don't normally speak in the first person or talk this casually in write-ups so here's an exception) The alien was making sexual advances.
After a few days, Meng gave in and had intercourse with the alien. He was soon floating above the bed that his daughter and wife were sleeping in. He had 40 several sexual encounters with this alien and in one such incident he was injected with a gun of sorts and Meng described this feeling as painless aside from the sensation of warts popping up under his skin. On July 17 this was the last of their liaisons as Meng said two male aliens soon showed up and escorted Meng and the female outside of his home and to a hanger with several saucers and objects similar to the one that Meng claimed to have seen. Via the use of a translator device, they explained that they had arrived to study Earth in detail and to avoid an asteroid collision with their home on Jupiter, and finally to make peace with humans. Meng tried to meet with the female alien again but was denied. The last he saw of them was when they explained that 60 years from now (the 2050s) and when they're born he'll be allowed to see them. The trip ended with him stating that he was brought to Jupiter to witness Shoemaker-Levy 9 as well as having some warts removed from his leg. Meng fully recovered and regained his mental state on July 17, 1994, at 3:40 AM. When he woke up he was completely naked aside from his underwear. Upon waking up he a wound on his leg was covered by gelatinous matter which he scratched off and was later lost after his house was cleaned.
Meng was relentlessly interviewed and questioned by his co-workers and not satisfied with his answers the police were contacted again. Rather than approaching the residents, loggers and Meng as police they instead went undercover and sent in two officers one presenting themselves as a reporter and the other as a hobbyist to question all those involved feeling that they'd likely give them a different answer if they thought they weren't talking to a police officer. After comparing and contrasting the various answers they were given police did not believe the incidents to be a mass hysteria or a hoax and that a bizarre incident had in fact taken place. The police also considered Meng and the labourers to be too uneducated and (there is no delicate way to put this) stupid to come up with such an elaborate and creative story.
The findings were reported to the Xinhua News Agency and the story once published became a massive news story prompting China's state councillor and the director of the State Science and Technology Commission, Song Jian to form an investigation team to look into the case. They went to Phoenix Mountian in October and found scorched trees and huge cracks and dents in the rocks where witnesses said the object went down.
Later medical examiners conducted an examination on Meng and discovered two scars that previously weren't there. One was a long scar across his abdomen while the other was a smaller one on his thigh. The doctors said that the scars were not caused by a "normal injury" (I do not know what that means or how they determined it) and Meng had never undergone surgery in his life before so that couldn't be the explanation either. The scars remained prevalent by 2003 and as recently as 2017 they were still faintly visible. In September 2003 Meng underwent a polygraph test in Beijing which he passed. Although like usual polygraphs are unreliable.
Those who doubt Meng's story point to the lack of any evidence aside from his scars and the damaged trees and rocks in the forest, that he was hallucination and can easily pass the polygraph test if he genuinely believed his hallucinations and years after telling the story and in retellings some numbers such as measurements kept changing.
Those who do believe Meng point to the following. Meng was not alone, so many others including all of his co-workers and some nearby villagers all reported seeing UFOs or strange phenomena in the sky and while not impossible it would be difficult to organize everyone to make up this story and lie to the police and experts for...Well, nothing there was nothing anyone involved gained, Meng passed the polygraph test (which as mentioned proves nothing), They parrot the police's opinion. The saucer and object described by Meng and his niece was unique in shape and it's hard to believe two people so uneducated were capable of thinking of it on their own, The fact that there was even an official investigation at all is something they point to as evidence when they could've easily dismissed and ignored the reports. And lastly, they bring up some respectable people like Chen Gongfu a university professor beliving the story.
In the aftermath, the Hongqi Forest Farm considered erecting a fence and gate to keep visitors out as a flock of visitors were now rushing to the area where the famous "Meng Zhaoguo Incident" occurred but decided against this and instead use and embrace the new found attention with the idea of rebranding as a tourist trap and cater specifically to those rushing to try and witness anything for themselves as they were already charging some fees. Ultimately this idea never came to pass. That was until 2010 and only because the area was made a national park in 2001. A hotel and restaurant was even built near the exact spot Meng claimed to have found the object.
Meng meanwhile disliked his fame and infamy. He tried his hardest to maintain a low profile and refused to do any TV interviews and adamantly refused to sign any contracts that sought to capitalize off of his story. Meng tried to do anything to avoid becoming famous and told his children that if anybody recognized them they were to lie and say "That's not me". Meng himself would even lie and deny his own identity if recognized on the street. He also received several new job opportunities but doubted the sincerity of most of them and only entertained a select few. One of the jobs was a teaching position at a university in Harbin the capital of Heilongjiang. Meng accepted this job because “The college provides an apartment with heating, my wife and daughter are working on campus as well, and my son attends a good Harbin middle school. He’s studying English. Life is better for him here than in the forest.” When asked what he felt about people who doubted his story he said this "Once, humans believed that the earth was flat. Even a decade ago, people would not believe that a cell phone could work. Humans, if we have never seen something with our own eyes, naturally doubt that it exists, or that life could be that way. I was the first to be brave enough to say: 'I saw that.'"
Meng wouldn't tell his story again until 2017 when he appeared on a state TV (China Central Television or CCTV) for a documentary. After this documentary, Meng went back to living a quiet and low-profile life. The most recent information has him now a 56-year-old man working in the cafeteria of The Harbin University of Commerce.
The Meng Zhaoguo Incident is one of China's 4 main and most compelling UFO incidents with the others being the Huang Yanqiu Incident, The Guiyang Flying Train Incident and the Kaifeng Debris Incident.
On July 10, 2012, a picture was taken in the same area and soon went viral although it was later debunked as being a lens flare.
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The World of Chinese:
In 1994, a woodcutter claimed to have a date with a 3-meter-tall female alien, and never wavered from his story since
One night in June 1994, Meng Zhaoguo was awoken by an interplanetary visitor. The 26-year-old timber worker alleged that the extraterrestrial was female, about three meters tall, had six fingers on each hand, and had entered his home in rural Heilongjiang province by floating through the wall.
Meng recounted later that the alien had made him levitate above his bed while his wife and child continued to sleep, and had sex with him. A month later, he found himself aboard the alien’s spacecraft, which had landed on Phoenix Mountain, near the forest plantation where he worked. There, another alien told him that in 60 years’ time, Meng’s son would be born on their planet.
This story, first reported in several local magazines, made Meng a minor celebrity during a time when curiosity about UFOs, science fiction, and the universe was beginning to boom in China. As the economy and society opened in the 1980s and 90s, and access to foreign media brought pop culture phenomena like Star Wars to the public, interest in space and the supernatural boomed.
As media control loosened, science magazines and journals spread across the country. Soon enthusiasts founded clubs and associations for UFO “research,” with tens of thousands of members at the movement’s peak. UFO sightings proliferated too: the South China Morning Post counted 5,000 reports of UFOs in China in the decade up to 1995.
Meng’s story was fantastical, but at least some of China’s new UFO enthusiasts believed him, and a number of organizations even sent research teams to the site where the alien ship had supposedly landed and also to Meng’s home to get the full story from him. His story is still probably the most famous UFO sighting in China, and one of the most investigated and discussed. It turned Phoenix Mountain in Heilongjiang into a pilgrimage site for other UFO enthusiasts, some of whom have also reported sightings of unidentified objects in the sky, including two allegedly caught on camera in 2005 and 2012.
Meng Zhaoguo took a lie-detector test in 2003 (Screenshot from Haokan Video)
Most scientists lined up to call Meng’s story nonsense, accusing him of being delusional or mentally ill. However, some claimed to believe him, ad one even administered a lie detector test in 2003—which Meng apparently passed. Whether fact or fiction, his story remains a favorite among UFO and sci-fi enthusiasts, and those who would like to believe we aren’t alone in the universe.
As the story goes, Meng was a simple farmer and then a wood-cutter, with a fifth-grade education and apparently no record of untrustworthiness. When he was 26 years old, he and other villagers noticed something sticking out of the side of a mountain in the distance. Meng and his niece’s husband went to investigate, thinking a helicopter may have crashed and they could scavenge something from the wreckage.
Meng later described seeing a large oval object with a long tail, totally smooth, with no discernible doors—a giant spacecraft.
Meng and his relative moved closer, and when they were about 150 meters away, they felt a surge running through them, like electricity, paralyzing them as if walking against an invisible barrier—some sort of force field surrounded the craft. Later, Meng said a beam of light struck him, and he fell to the floor. When Meng visited a doctor, he felt electricity surging through him again when the stethoscope was placed on his chest. In fact, anything metal would set off this reaction for hours after the incident.
The female alien’s visit allegedly took place a few days later. While earlier reports suggested they had intercourse for 40 minutes, Meng stated in an interview in November last year that the sensation only lasted three or four seconds—“I was being experimented on,” he claimed.
A few days after that, Meng awoke one night on the aliens’ spaceship. The aliens, dressed from head to toe in curious black cloaks with no seams, (conveniently) spoke broken Chinese. Meng asked why they were here, to which they answered “to escape danger” and “to observe you and your planet.” They then showed him, via some kind of screen, a comet hitting Jupiter.
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9’s crash in July 1994 took place a month after Meng’s alleged visit to the alien spacecraft (VCG)
This rare celestial phenomenon really did take place on July 17, 1994, when Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. This has been cited by believers of Meng as evidence of the truthfulness of his story. After all, how could an uneducated peasant like Meng have any knowledge of such an event in an age before the internet?
Other evidence supposedly supporting Meng’s account include a strange scar a doctor found on his leg, which some speculate is evidence of something the aliens implanted in his skin. Meng also said the aliens visited again in 2016, when they gifted him part of the comet that hit Jupiter.
News of Meng’s extraordinary encounter in 1994 spread quickly, and investigators from the country’s then burgeoning UFO clubs descended on the small logging community. When they reached the suspected landing sight of the spaceship, they found scorch marks on the surrounding trees and some rocks split into pieces. “We guessed it was from an aircraft taking off or landing,” Wang Fangchen, the first chairman of the Beijing UFO Research Organization, which was established in the 1980s, recalled on the Story FM podcast in January this year.
During the same investigation, Wang recalls how a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences brought a Geiger counter along to Meng’s home but found that the instrument for measuring radiation went haywire and wouldn’t take an accurate reading near the wall where aliens supposedly entered Meng’s home: “I saw this with my own eyes...I can’t explain this phenomenon,” Wang told Story FM.
Meng claimed the aliens kept visiting him. The rock the aliens supposedly gifted him in 2016 was later analyzed and said to be an extremely rare precious metal—terbium. How had Meng gotten hold of such a rock?
Meng Zhaoguo was last reported to be working in the cafeteria at the Harbin University of Commerce (Screenshot from Haokan Video)
Of course, his story was also widely mocked. “Meng Zhaoguo has no credibility...local leaders have said he’s mad,” former secretary-general of the Beijing UFO Research Organization Zhou Xiaoqiang said on the Story FM podcast. “Lots of the people who went to investigate already believed him, so they were easily led astray.”
Today, China is no longer so gripped with extraterrestrial fever, and UFO hunters are fewer and less organized than in the 90s, when groups could have thousands of members. This comes despite the fact that interest in the science fiction genre has boomed, and writers have seen their works adapted for the silver screen to great acclaim, such as Liu Cixin’s The Wandering Earth in 2019. Stricter registration requirements for associations made it more difficult for some of the clubs to operate, while authorities harbored suspicions against some clubs which appeared to have links to spiritual qigong groups, some of which were eventually labeled cults.
A handful of organizations (in Beijing, Shanghai, and Dalian, for example) still hold meetings and conduct research into the potential for extraterrestrial life, though they are keen to be seen as “real” scientists, and leave investigating more outlandish claims of alien contact to individual enthusiasts.
The FAST telescope in China’s Guizhou province began operations in 2020 (VCG)
UFO speculation lives on online, with smartphones making it easier than ever to record potential sightings and share them online (where they are usually debunked by meteorologists and other experts). “Serious” research into signs of extraterrestrial life, however, is growing, particularly since the completion of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest radio telescope of its kind, in Guizhou province in 2016.
Meng, however, has never wavered in his story, even as his celebrity waned. In a 2021 interview with a UFO blogger on video platform Bilibili, he retold the story of his total of four meetings with these aliens. Regardless of whether people believe him, Meng says the aliens’ main message to him was that humans must look after their planet or it will be destroyed—something he believes happened to the aliens’ own home: “Our planet has already sent us distress signals. If we don’t cherish it, we’ll destroy it.”
