civilian-claim1952· Wonsan / Sunchon, North Korea
On January 29, 1952, crews of two separate B-29 Superfortresses operating over North Korea, one over Wonsan, one over Sunchon, independently reported orange globe-shaped lights pacing their aircraft for up to five minutes. Far East Air Forces commander Lt. Gen. Otto P. Weyland publicly acknowledged an ongoing investigation, and the incident was logged in Project Blue Book as among the earliest multi-crew, multi-aircraft Korean War-era UAP cases.
The Wonsan crew reported an orange disc roughly three feet in apparent diameter emitting intermittent blue flames, remaining visible for five minutes at 20,000 feet while the bomber flew at 200 mph. The Sunchon report came from a different squadron based hundreds of miles away, operating independently, making a coordinated hoax implausible. United Press carried the story nationally by February 19.
Citations
- Wonsan-Sunchon UFO incident· Wikipedia, 2024
- Korean War Battlefield UFO Encounter· NICAP, 2005
- PROJECT 1947. UFO Reports 1952, Korea, Wonsan-Sunchon· Project 1947, 2000
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