Category: Advanced Aerial Devices

Acknowledgments It is indeed a pleasure to thank the many people who helped me in various ways during the preparation of this book. First of all, to each of the many eyewitnesses of these events goes my gratitude and respect for their courage to report their experiences in the first place, particularly to Mr. Francis P. Wall. It will partially be through such brave acts that we will, one day, discover the core identity of the so-called UFO phenomenon. In addition, the following persons deserve my sincere thanks. To the Archives Division of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum for permission to reproduce selected photographs of combat aircraft. To John P. Timmerman Vice President of Public Relations for the J. Allen Hynek […] Read More

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Korean Peninsula 3 Command Structure for U.S. Air Operations 6 B-29 Bomber in Flight 8 F-86 Sabre Jet 9 Captured Soviet Made MiG-15 12 Eyewitness Sketch of UFO 19 F-94C Starfire Jet Interceptor 41 C-54 in Flight 46 F4U-4B Aircraft in Flight 49 T-6 Aircraft in Ground Bunkers 57 LIST OF TABLES 1. Historical Events Surrounding the Korean War 13 2. Historical UFO Events 15 ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES – Contents

CONTENTS Foreword Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Tables Contents Overview Chapter 1: The Stage is Set Chapter 2: GI Fires Upon an Unidentified Aerial Object Chapter 3: American Pilots Report UFOs over Korea Chapter 4: Ground Observers Report UFOs over Korea References Appendices Weather Balloon Characteristics Shapes and Sizes of UFO Reported Eye Witnesses Listed by Sighting Date Summary of Unusual or Provocative: UFO Flight Maneuvers Electromagnetic Effect Cases ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES – Overview

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 […] Read More

Chapter 1 The Stage is Set Barely 59 months after the Japanese signed an unconditional surrender on September 2, 1945, a relatively minor civil war broke out on the Korean Peninsula between the Democratic Republic of (South) Korea and the communistic Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea. Some historians point out that what started as a civil war limited to a then third rate economic and strategic nation; escalated rapidly into an undeclared training ground for new weapons systems, advanced strategic planning, and armed forces drawn from more than seventeen other nations fighting on the side of freedom and democracy. The enemy comprised two nations (North Korea, Red China) with the Soviet Union standing in the background, supplying training personnel and materiel. Many claimed […] Read More

Chapter 2 GI Fires Upon an Unidentified Aerial Object Following is a transcript of an interview between Mr. Francis P. Wall, a private first class in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and Mr. John Timmerman who is Project Manager for the photo exhibit of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in the Fall of 1987. It has not been edited in any way. This interesting event began at dusk and ended at about 9 pm local time. “This event that I am about to relate to you is the truth, so help me God. (Note 1) It happened in the early Spring of 1951 in the country of Korea. We were in the Army infantry. I was in the 25th […] Read More

Chapter 3 American Pilots Report UFOs over Korea This chapter presents 30 UFO sighting reports that were made by U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine pilots during the war. They are interesting because they show that the UFO was capable of outperforming the combat aircraft the U.S. had at that time. Sept. 1950, Korea A U.S. Navy plane on a combat mission was approached by two large discs. The aircraft’s radar was jammed, and its radio transmitter was blocked by a buzzing noise each time a new frequency was tried. (Hall, pg. 73, 1964) A more complete report provides the following information (UFOIRC, 1966). “Very early in the morning, three fighter-bombers took off from the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier. The sun […] Read More

Chapter 4 Ground Observers Report UFOs This chapter presents a number of UFO sighting reports obtained from project Blue Book files which involved observers on the ground. That such sightings continued long after the Korean War is shown by an interesting case which took place in 1974 which was reported by Stringfield (1977). April 5, 1952, Midnight, Okinawa This brief summary report was found in USAF intelligence report 131-52 dated 22 August 1952 (pg. 3). It is included here only to indicate that Korea was not the only place in the Far East where these strange events were taking place. Okinawa was the location of a U.S. military base about 600 miles south of Korea. Many other sightings were also made from Japan. Following […] Read More

References Anon., Associated Press, Tokyo, Japan, October 19, 1952. Anon., Aerospace Science: History of Air Power. Air University Press, Air Training Command, Maxwell A.F.B., Alabama, 1986. Braybrook, R., Supersonic Fighter Development. Haynes Publ. Group, Somerset, England, 1987. Gross, L.E., UFO’s: A History January-May 1952. Privately published, 1982. Gross, L.E., UFO’s: A History 1952: September – October. Privately published, 1986. Haines, R.F., Commercial jet crew sights unidentified object-Part I. Flying Saucer Review, Pp. 3-6, March 1982; Part II. Pp. 2-8, April 1983. (Actually FSR 1981; Vol27, No04, Pp. 3-6 and No05, Pp. 2-8) Haines, R.F., and J.F. Vallee, Photo Analysis of an Aerial Disc Over Costa Rica. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pp. 113-131, 1989. Haines, R.F., and J.F. Vallee, Photo Analysis […] Read More

Appendices 1. Weather Balloon Characteristics The following meteorological balloons were used by the Americans in the Korean War. This data was included in report IR-4-52, page 2 dated 7 June 1952. ___________________________________________________________ Weight Size Color Rate of climb* Altitude ___________________________________________________________ 10 gram 18 inches red or black 400 25,000 ft. 30 gram 24 inches red, white 600 60,000 ft. or black 100 gram 40 inches red, white 990 100,000 ft. or black 350 gram 12 ft cream 1100 120,000 ft. 500 gram 25 ft cream 1200 140,000 ft. ___________________________________________________________ * ft. per minute Times of Release ___________________________________________________________ GMT Local Time ___________________________________________________________ 0600 1200 (noon) 0900 1800 350 gram balloons flown 1500 2400 during daylight hrs. 750 2100 0600 gram balloons flown during darkness. Thirty […] Read More

2. Shapes and Sizes of UFO Reported __________________________________________________________ Japanese lantern Coolie hat with oblong ports Round Ball Globe (larger than Navy jet) Cylindrical with a tail Oval (larger than a MiG) 50 foot diameter Round black (circular) cloud Round Coin Disc (7:1 ratio and 15-20 ft) Large dark object (long streamers) Cigar (6-7 feet long) Perfectly circular (25 ft diam) Spherical (8-10 ft diameter) Discs (7 total in group) Oval object (size of fighter) Cartwheel (giving off sparks) __________________________________________________________ ADVANCED AERIAL DEVICES – Appendices – Eye Witnesses Listed by Sighting Date

3. Eye Witnesses Listed by Sighting Date __________________________________________________________ Event Date Name(s) __________________________________________________________ Spring 1951, Frances P. Wall Feb. 24, 1952, R. W. Smith Mar. 29, 1952, Brigham April 30, 1952, H. B. Webb, Roland Jones, Bill Smith May 15, 1952, McCarthy May 26, 1952, Martin May 30, 1952, Robert J. Arblaster; William Leet; Andrew J. Roe May 31, 1952, Hufberry June 20, 1952, Bobbie Foster, Richard Francisco, Teddy L.Pittman, Ronnie A. McDonald Aug. 9, 1952, Leo N. Nagrodsky Sept 16, 1952, C. B. Scott Jones Sept. 18, 1952, J. A. Lajoie Oct 16, 1952, Hooper, O’Neill Nov. 15, 1952, Layten S. Bass; Barnard March 20, 1953, William Morgan Winter 1954, John A. Potter Note to Reader: If you served in the Korean War and […] Read More

Summary of Unusual or Provocative UFO Flight Maneuvers Of major interest here are the flight dynamics of the UFO which appear to be directly related to the presence and/or behavior of the eye witness’ airplane or the witness himself. For an aerial vehicle to be able to control its position relative to another vehicle rapidly it must possess (1) a large acceleration capability (which requires a large amount of energy, (2) a propulsion capability to direct the energy in a given direction efficiently, (3) a means of sensing the change in position of the other vehicle, and (4) a highly precise guidance and local “navigation” system. The airplanes and other aerial weapons which were used during the Korean War were mostly of World War […] Read More