Sha Yongkao

Sha Yongkao is a Chinese pilot renowned in UFO research for a close encounter while flying an aircraft. In the early 1980s, during a flight, he reportedly witnessed a remarkable UFO incident, documented in the Flying Saucer Review (FSR) journal from 1984 (Volume 29, Number 6). The event was cited by Zhang Ke-Tao of the Peking branch of the Chinese UFO Research Society as a key example of aerial UFO encounters in China. This testimony contributed to the burgeoning field of Chinese ufology amid the UFO fever of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when organizations like CURO emerged. No birth or death years, additional publications, or military program ties are detailed in available records. His account underscores pilot sightings as credible evidence in UAP studies.