This was a widely reported “mothership” type sighting spreading over many different districts in Hong Kong. Reported sighting locations, according to various reports, include Yuen Long, Wan Chai, Central, Western District, Victoria Peak, and southern part of Hong Kong Island. I personally witnessed this event through a window at home on hill top in Stanley facing the WSW direction, roughly in the direction of Wah Fu Estate. I have managed to acquired 3 separate articles, from various English and Chinese news agencies and publishers 42 years after the phenomena. The articles in Chinese described the observed phenomena as a very large and long object with steady yellow, orange, and blue-green bright lights, with a steady beam of light emitting from the tail side of the object. I have enclosed below the news article in English from SCMP: September 10, 1979 ● Unidentified flying objects were sighted over Hong Kong the night before. People living on The Peak and in Yuen Long reported seeing brightly lit objects shooting across the sky at about 10.45pm. A Royal Hong Kong Observatory spokesman said it had received reports of the UFO sightings but said they could have been bolts of lightning.

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