HANGZHOU, CHINA (LALATE) – UPDATE. Photos of a UFO in China are being reported by news as fake, while reports of a UFO-like aircraft over a Chinese Airport are still not being explained by officials.

News reports of the UFO over a Chinese Airport last week have been separated into two different issues now – the photos versus the event. Local news now claims the event certainly happened but the photos online are hideously fake.

First, insiders now tell local news that the photos are fake, not from last week; insiders are now saying the pictures have been online for years and have nothing to do with the Hanghou incident and may not even be from China.

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Local news picked up the pictures last week, but this weekend blog Forgetomori says they did so in error. “All of these other photos, with the exception of a single one, are also simply long-exposure photos of aircrafts, but in this case, helicopters. Not only that, they have nothing to do with China and were published on the web long ago.” LALATE had previously commented the photos appeared to be fake, featuring structures and trees (palm trees include) not believed to be even near the Chinese airport.

Second, while the photos maybe fake, the event was very much real, yet still unexplained. Wang Jian, head of air traffic control with Zhejiang branch of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, has now commented about the matter.  “No conclusion has yet been drawn” said Wang noting the investigation is still underway. Eighteen flights were delayed or rerouted at the airport when the event unfolded on July 7 at roughly 9 pm local time, reports CNN.

The airport at issue is Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. Officials confirmed that the object did appear on airport tracking radar at roughly 9 pm local time Wednesday. Civil Aviation Administration of China, told the China Daily News that boarding and outgoing flights from Hangzhou were stopped for 60 minutes and that the aircraft spotted had a “ military connection.”

Yet beyond those two briefs remarks, CAAC has still yet to issue a complete report about its investigation.