Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of Asian UFO Encounters & Lore

Reality-warping Asian science fiction that just happens to be nonfiction.

In 11th-century China, pilgrims would journey to Pishe Lake to witness objects that flew up nightly, shot out dazzling beams of light, then vanished at impossible speeds.

In the 18th century, a high-ranking Chinese official was led by two luminous orbs away from the mountains, where female beings transported him inside one-beginning an odyssey that maps precisely onto modern alien abduction accounts.

In December 1994, tw...