Scientists at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing have captured 40 minutes of (what they believe to be) UFO footage recorded during a solar eclipse back on July 22.  According to Chinese TV, people witnessed a “glowing blue sphere” that changed its shape repeatedly.

Observatory director Ji Hai-sheng: “Purple Mountain Observatory and Chinese Academy of Sciences said that during the July 22 total solar eclipse observation, China had discovered near the sun, by observing staff, an unidentified object, it’s physical nature remains to be further studied. Currently manpower is being organized to deal with this data, complete the data analysis and reveal the scientific results and this will take at least one year’s time to finalize.”

What do you think about this startling footage?  Have you ever had a UFO sighting?  Sound off in the comments below.

[Via Gizmodo; Telegraph.co.uk]