As the world moves closer to December 12th 2012, the final date of a 5,125 year long ancient Mayan calendar, China's media has been increasing its coverage of UFO sightings around the country. Although scholars agree the date has no association with cataclysmic events occurring in 2012, rumors have claimed we are approaching the end of the world and with this, speculation of an Alien invasion. In this video D J Clark sets out to investigate whether these UFO sightings have any credibility.

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Video: D J Clark & Jia Fan(Intern)

Producer: Flora Yue

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About D J Clark

D J Clark has worked worldwide as a multimedia journalist for more than 20 years. As well as working for China Daily he runs an MA course in Multimedia journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University and is the Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism in Manila, Philippines.