Overview
This book begins with a brief overview of the major historical events of the Korean War period to help set the stage for the UFO sighting reports which follow. Also presented are some important UFO events which took place just before and during the war years.
Forty-two UFO reports are presented here. More than 63 military pilots, soldiers, ground radar operators, naval personnel, and others covering the period of September 1950 to the winter of 1954 contributed to these interesting reports.
Six of these cases (14%) involve some kind of electromagnetic effect while another seven (17%) include flight maneuvers by aerial phenomena that rival or exceed those of the airplanes that flew in the war.
Another six cases (14%) strongly suggest intelligently guided flight control of the UFO relative to the airplane’s movements.
UFO shape names (number of each in parentheses) include:
- disc (9),
- sphere,
- round,
- circular (7),
- oval (2),
- cigar,
- Japanese lantern,
- coolie hat,
- cylinder,
- coin,
- cartwheel,
- cloud-like.
Of the eighteen cases (43%) in which sighting duration is cited, the mean is 6.14 minutes.
Fifteen sightings (36%) took place during daylight hours.
One report was made during 1950, three in 1951, 24 (57%) in 1952, five in 1953, and one in 1954.
Of those that occurred in 1952, seven took place in May and seven in June.
Descriptions of the UFOs involved during the May-June 1952 period show a remarkable consistency including such shape names as:
- oval that is “larger than a MiG”,
- “50-foot diameter”,
- “circular dark object that is flattened on top and bottom”,
- “round”,
- “coin with a 7:1 ratio”,
- “disc with 7:1 ratio and 15-20 foot diameter”,
- “revolving disc”.
Although the U.S. Air Force’s official conclusions for many of these cases was a lighted enemy balloon, most of the sighting data do not support this explanation. It is quite clear that the reported phenomena are closely similar in all major respects to other UFO cases both before and after the Korean War.
There is virtually no evidence of hostile intent shown by the UFO(s) during any of these close aerial encounters.
Is it possible that others were only interested in how wars are fought on Earth?