BEIJING : A 70-year-old Chinese man, Jin Fan, has been anxiously anticipating the day he could greet aliens from outer space. Accordingly, he’s sold almost all of his worldly possessions to build a landing site for UFOs on a farm 100 kilometers north of Dalian , Northeast China’s Liaoning Province . But not everyone is pleased with his decision to become China ’s unofficial greeter of space aliens.

The China Daily quotes Chen Xiaomei, the wife of Jin Fan, as grumbling that, “he sold two apartments … leaving the two of us only a small apartment of 50 square meters to live in. But this is what he is really interested in. I don’t have the heart to force him to quit.”

Jin Fan has built his alien greetings site on a one-square-kilometer farm located in Pulandian, approximately 100 kilometers north of Dalian . Although, he’s light on monetary funds, Mr. Jin managed to build two cottages of mud and bricks with four wooden beds, a big table and a makeshift stove, which would serve as a hotel for visiting outer space aliens.

According to the China Daily, “Jin is looking for partners to sustain the running of the farm and the observation base, and to finance necessary observation equipment.”

Mr. Jin, an engineer, is the chairman and founder of the Dalian UFO Research Society that was established in 1984. The society claims to have about 400 members.

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