 The Pentagon aren't alone in investigating strange objects spotted in the skies. According to reports, the Chinese military has also been tracking UFOs, and in recent years they have registered a severe uptick in sightings, wait to hear this. According to the South China Morning Post, the People's Liberation Army uses a free-tiered system to investigate instances of unidentified air conditions, a euphemism reminiscent of the US military's term for UFOs, unidentified aerial phenomena. The People's Liberation Army relies on reports from military radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, weather stations and the Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories to gather as much data as possible about mysterious flying objects in China. The information is then processed by the military and undergoes preliminary analysis, before being submitted to a national database. The People's Liberation Army headquarters then assigns a threat index to each sighting, and this is based on the object's behaviour, physical features and other relevant variables. But Chinese analysis has been overwhelmed in recent years by a growing number of sightings, reports from a wide range of military and civilian sources according to the Post. By the South China Morning Post, prompting the People's Liberation Army UFO task force to rely on artificial intelligence to help sort through the data, many of the reports are ultimately attributed to natural phenomena which are picked up by the radar or trigger electrical sensors, and this is according to Chinese military research papers citing UFOs. While such reports conjure up images of alien craft, sightings of unidentified objects in China's airspace are more likely caused by humans than aliens, and this is according to a Chinese radar scientist who believes that the objects are American in origin, with China's increased activity in the South China Sea building islands, as well as an uptick in military activity by China, and China believes that these activities could be other nations prying into their airspace. China's only official confirmed UFO sightings occurred in 1998 when two military jets intercepted a low-flying object that had appeared above a Chinese airbase, and the object was incredibly described as a short-legged mushroom, with beams of light shooting down from its underside. The object was able to quickly accelerate before disappearing from radar, and this is according to a report about the incident published in an official paper. In the United States, the Pentagon's confirmation of several videos showing US military run-ins with unexplained flying objects has caused a frenzy of speculation, and prompted the Senate to ask for a report into the matter, and the document is expected to be presented to US lawmakers in the coming weeks. Reports have already surfaced, citing officials involved with the probe claim that investigations have found no evidence that the sightings are linked to aliens, but also can't deny that such a link exists, and the American report also allegedly suggests that the objects could be new technologies developed by foreign nations, including the Chinese. But what do you guys think about this anyway? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.