Kanas and the Lights over the Mountain Lake
A glacial lake in the far north of Xinjiang, near where the borders of China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia meet. It is known in China for two things: a lake monster, which is almost certainly a large taimen, and steady reports of lights over the water. The latter increased noticeably in the 2000s, when a road was put in and tourism arrived. The explanation here is largely geographical: the lake lies away from developed country, the air is clean, and launches from Russian and Chinese ranges regularly pass over the mountains, their upper-atmosphere trails visible for hundreds of kilometres and looking exactly as described.
Aztec and the Second Crash
In 1948, a year after Roswell, another flying saucer is supposed to have come down at this town in northern New Mexico — thirty metres across, with sixteen bodies inside. The story was told by the writer Frank Scully in a 1950 book, Behind the Flying Saucers, which became a bestseller. Two years later True magazine established that Scully's sources were two confidence men, Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, who had been selling oilmen an "alien" device for finding deposits. Both were convicted of fraud. Aztec was not put off: from 1998 the town ran an annual UFO symposium, and it became a noticeable source of income for the local library.
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