MIRAGE OR HIGH TECH EXPERIMENT? - SIGHTINGS OF A CITY FLOATING OVER CLOUDS IN CHINA - Captured on video - Not the first occurrence - Can be explained scientifically as a phenomenon called FATA MORGANA, but conspiracy theories went into overdrive

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CHINESE TV news reports have told how thousands of residents in TWO areas reported separately seeing a huge city form in the skies.



Onlookers, some who are said to have videoed the bizarre event, were said to be mesmerised  as a towering city of sky scrapers appeared from the clouds.

Continue reading, see more images, and watch videos of this 2015 event, and of a similar sighting over Nigeria in 2011.

First thousands reportedly saw a ghostly alien city floating over Foshan in the Guangdong province of China.

 

WATCH VIDEO

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoP1sh1WXm8&feature=player_embedded

A few days later people in the province of Jiangxi, China, also reported seeing a similar cloud city.

 

But the mystery has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive.

 

A research team, called Project Nimbus, recently demonstrated a holographic device reportedly based on the principle of the zoopraxiscope that was able to project the image of a green horseman galloping across the skies.

 

WHAT SCIENCE SAYS:

 

However, not everyone believes that the ghostly city which appeared in the sky over Foshan was a Project Blue Beam test run. 

 

Weather experts have explained the phenomena as natural mirage, an optical illusion called Fata Morgana.

 

Fata Morgana mirages are caused by rays of light undergoing bending when they pass through layers of air with different temperatures.  They can be seen on land or at sea.  They involve the optical distortion and inversion of distant objects, such as boats, islands, and the coastline. The mirage often appears as a city of skyscrapers because successive images are stacked.   

The 2011 sighting in Nigeria:

In March, 2011 hundreds of residents of the village of Dulali in Lanzai South Ward of Darazo Local Government area in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, reported seeing a great floating city in the skies above their rural communities. 

 

 

WATCH VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeNI-kF7pSU&feature=player_embedded

Sources - 2015 event:
http://www.inquisitr.com/2494892/giant-floating-city-spotted-in-the-sky-over-city-of-foshan-in-guangdong-china-video/#YR7LWL83Jp1Cv3jO.99

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/612531/Did-parallel-universe-open-up-Hundreds-see-floating-city-filmed-in-skies-above-China

Source - 2011 event
http://www.inquisitr.com/2038679/floating-city-ufo-appeared-in-the-skies-over-village-in-bauchi-nigeria/

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