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US satellite once mistook Hakka residence as nuke base

The old residence of Hakkas, a minority nationality in Nanjing County of South China's Fujian Province, built completely with immature soil, has stood rock firm for several centuries and is therefore dubbed "the world's eighth wonder" by UNESCO (the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization). "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" issue January disclosed that US surveillance satellite once created a ridiculous story.


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The old residence of Hakkas, a minority nationality in Nanjing County of South China's Fujian Province, built completely with immature soil, has stood rock firm for several centuries and is therefore dubbed "the world's eighth wonder" by UNESCO (the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization). "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" issue January disclosed that US surveillance satellite once created a ridiculous story.

One day in 1985, the then US President Ronald Reagan read a report from the intelligence bureau under the Department of National Defense. "We are not joking here to use 'group'. The group nuclear base is likely to be a fact. According to our report through the KH22 satellite hovering, there are over 1, 500 unidentified huge mushroom-like buildings in Fujian Province of China, which are extremely similar to nuclear equipment. New penetrative satellite can observe through high buildings, but failed in front of the 1, 500 high-rises, in which China's sophistication of nuclear research can be seen. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the nature of the buildings."

One day in December 1985 it was snowing in Beijing. A couple from US New York Institute of Photography paid a special visit to China to take photos.

The film slide they made received praises from the fans, who couldn't imagine that the real objective of the couple's trip was not to enjoy China's beautiful landscape, but was aimed at the Hakka buildings suspected as nuclear bases.

The two persons were received by the Federation of Literature and Art in Zhangzhou City of Fujian Province on December 18. They went to see Hakka residences in Nanjing County 50 kilometers from Zhangzhou, where they took photos. Back in the United States, the husband delivered a "South China Investigation Report" to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), explaining why the buildings were mistaken as ones for special purposes: their peculiar round and square exterior presented through bird's-eye view.

The suspicion finally vanished into thin air.

By People's Daily Online


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