Unidentified Flying Objects at India-China Border In Ladakh

Units of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) have reported Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOS) in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. An ITBP unit based in Thakung, close to the Pangong Tso Lake, reported over 100 sightings of luminous objects between August 1, 2012 and October 15, 2012. In reports sent to their Delhi headquarters in September, and to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), they described sighting "Unidentified Luminous Objects" at day and by night. The yellowish spheres appear to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for three to five hours before disappearing. These were not unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), drones or even low earth-orbiting satellites, say Army officials who have studied the hazy photographs taken by ITBP.

A UFO sighting reported by Brazilian Navy ( Image Courtesy - hyper.net )

Such mysterious lights have been sighted before in Ladakh, a barren, 86,000 sq km heavily militarised zone wedged between Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Chinese-occupied Aksai Chin. The persistent sightings by the ITBP this year, however, worried the Army's Leh-based 14 Corps.

In September, the Army moved a mobile ground-based radar unit and a spectrum analyser-that picks up frequencies emitted from any object-to a mountaintop near the 160-km-long, ribbon-shaped Pangong Lake that lies between India and China. The radar could not detect the object that was being tracked visually, in dicating it was non-metallic. The spectrum analyser could not detect any signals being emitted from them. The Army also flew a reconnaissance drone in the direction of the floating object, but it proved a futile exercise. The drone reached its maximum altitude but lost sight of the floating object.

Intelligence officials say these objects could be a crude psychological operation by China, or sophisticated probes attempting to ascertain India's defences in Ladakh.

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Indian Forces' strong stance against Chinese intrusion

Shunning the practice of tolerance against brazen boundary violation by Chinese, Indian Security Forces have now started taking strong measures against Chinese intrusions. After being stalled due to threats from the Chinese, work on an irrigation project has resumed with additional security cover provided by Indian Security Forces, along the Indus river in the border town of Nyoma in north of Jammu and Kashmir.

The work was stalled here after armed Chinese People Liberation Army (PLA) personnel came up to the banks of Indus river and reportedly asked the contractor to stop the work on the irrigation project on the Kuyul-Gomba-Yardol-Thuksey Irrigation Scheme in the Nyoma Block. Taken aback by the Chinese Army's attempts to interfere, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) shot off letters to ITBP and Leh-based 14 Corps seeking protection for the contractors.

File Image : Indian Army on vigil at Indo-China border at Bumla Pass ( Image Courtesy - hindustantimes.com ) 

The work has since then re-started after Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a border guarding force along the Sino-Indian border, deployed additional strength of armed troops to counter any Chinese interference on the project in this remote border town, 170 km from Leh.

Under the scheme, water will be lifted from the river and, released into a nearly 4-km long canal to provide irrigation facility and drinking water.

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