Changsha

“Shortly after I arrived in Changsha end of last week, a high frequency sound hit my right ear so hard that my ear went deaf for more than a few seconds. A friend shared that when this happens to him, normally it means to him that an earthquake has just happened near his part of the world,” writes Nicholas Aaron Khoo for CNET.

Khoo writes, “I searched online and found that a pretty serious earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale had just occurred in Qinghai just half a day before this high frequency noise incident.”

“Stranger still was the fact that within an hour of the earthquake, there was this supposed UFO sighting in Changsha. So, maybe the high frequency sound was due to the UFO hovering nearby instead? Anyway, I realized that Changsha seems to be a hotbed for UFO sightings with six sightings reported in the media this past year alone,” writes Khoo.

Changsha (simplified Chinese: 长沙; traditional Chinese: 長沙; pinyin: Chángshā; Wade-Giles: Chang-sha) is the capital city of Hunan, a province of south-central China, located on the lower reaches of Xiang river, a branch of the Yangtze River. It covers an area of 11,819 sq. kilometers and has a population of 6,017,600.

Changsha was important from the time of the Qin dynasty (221–207 BC). In AD 750–1100 Changsha was an important commercial city, and its population increased greatly. Under the Qing dynasty, from 1664, it was the capital of Hunan province, and it was a major rice market. It was besieged during the Taiping Rebellion but never fell. Changsha was the site of Mao Zedong’s conversion to communism. It was the scene of major battles in the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 and was briefly occupied by the Japanese. Rebuilt since 1949, the city is now a major port and a commercial and industrial center. (Source)

Read Khoo’s full article here