Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson and the witness history team.

This week as the Pentagon releases papers on UFOs, a dramatic alleged UFO sighting from the last century.

I saw the little black men, they had long, longish hair, they kind of turned around and

stared and then went back into a kind of like ship.

Plus a controversial Middle Eastern playwright and the godfather of wind power.

You felt all this energy in the wind.

It is as if it gets alive and that was a very tangible tactile feeling of the

power in the wind. That's all coming up later in the podcast but we're going to begin

this week in China which is currently celebrating the centenary of the

founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Eggd on by emissaries from newly Soviet Russia, the party officially came into being in July

1921.

Mao Zedung was there, and later in 1945 he became party leader.

Under his stewardship, the Communist Party became the most powerful organization in China and in 1949, over 20 years after its formation it took control of the country.

Ya Shan Jao from the BBC Chinese service has spoken to a man called Jieu Jendaire who was a young

recruit in the People's Liberation Army in 1949 and was there at the celebrations in Tiananmen Square

when Mao Zedung declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

This is truly remarkable living history.

Yashan is in Hong Kong at the moment, but she's been telling me how she managed to track down this firsthand witness.

So, Jojandh, he was one of the few people who were still alive who witnessed the huge ceremony in Tiananmen Square in 1949.

So I searched online and his name came up.

So his story was told by a Belgian photographer and I contacted a photographer and he

gave me the contact of local communist parties perpendicular office So that was how I started my journey to deal with the Communist Party's

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