Alien Alert: China's First Astronaut Experienced Knocks On Space Capsule

China made history on October 16, 2003, when they launched their first astronaut to space. Yang Liwei was the 241st man to get to space aboard China's Shenzhou 5. The trip was indeed memorable for the astronaut as he was welcomed by loud banging noises in space, which might be caused by an alien from other worlds.

The Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei accounted in an interview with Xinhua the unforgettable experience he had on that 21-hour journey alone in space. According to Liwei, the "non-causal situation" he encountered during his trip was a knock-like noise that occurred for a number of times and not just once, banging his space capsule.

Liwei went on reminiscing his experience by sharing that the knock came for no apparent reason. What shocked him most was when he examined where the banging noises came from, he saw nothing and met no one, reports Express UK. He wasn't that quick to judge, but he thought it could be done by an alien.

Upon his return to the Earth, the alien noise suddenly disappeared making him think, then, that it might only mean nothing serious. He wasn't able to imitate how the noise sounds, which made it hard for the experts to help him distinguish what might have probably caused it, the BBC News reported.

Although he cannot exactly repeat the sound, Liwei has described how the alien noise sounds like. The astronaut, who is now a Major General, described that the sound didn't look like it came from either the inside or outside of the spacecraft. Liwei went on to explain that it sounded more like the whole spaceship's metal body was being pounded by something wooden.

Meanwhile, when succeeding astronauts from China went on their way back to space, they have unexpectedly encountered the same fate. Astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 6 and Shenzhou 7 have heard the same banging noise. They also tried examining where it came, but like what Liwei experienced, they found nothing.

This experience should have served as a lesson to all space visitors in accounting and recording every extraordinary event that would happen while they're out in space. Meanwhile, the event did not hinder the continuous space launches for China, having the 2 most recent astronauts aboard the Tiangong 2 Space Laboratory back on Beijing.