A Chinese unmanned flying saucer, the first of the kind in the country, will take to the sky within two years, a Chinese scientist announced in Beijing.

Professor Yan Lei with the School of Earth and Space Sciences of the elite Peking University said the so-called flying saucer is actually an analogue simulation model on a solar-energy-powered stratosphere, also known as ozone layer, a flight system widely used in fields such as telecommunications, meteorology and the earth monitoring.

The Chinese scientist said that he is applying for a state patent for the creation.

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