1953: TWO USAF RECON PLANES CHASE A UFO OVER SOUTH KOREA
UFO ROUNDUP Volume 4 Number 15 April 12, 1999 Editor: Joseph Trainor Masinaigan@aol.com

On Sunday, April 19, 1953, at about 1 p.m., a reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force's Far Eastern Air Force (FEAF) was on a routine patrol over Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

The three-man crew included the pilot, Lt. Julius Morgan, plus observers, Lt. James O. Rymus and Lt. John E, Myers. During these last days of the Korean War, they were hunting for hostile MiGs from North Korea or China. But instead they encountered something else entirely.

"A white shiny round object was seen over Seoul at approximately 1 p.m. today. Aerial observers in two separate planes flying routine reconnaissance missions observed a white, rounded, delta-shaped object. It was estimated to be five to seven feet in diameter. The observers had no idea of its depth or thickness."

"It was traveling between 60 to 80 mph (miles per hour) in a vibrating motion. The course of flight was north-northeast to south-southwest over enemy (North Korean) territory."

"The object had no visible means of propulsion and sometimes flew only 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground."

"The fliers, four Americans on reconnaissance flight, said it appeared to be round, only 10 feet (3 meters) in diameter, and about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Panmunjom."

Interestingly, one of the observers made the offhand remark that "other luminous objects traveling at supersonic speeds of 800 miles per hour had been observed in the Baldy/Pork Chop area and tracked on radar."

The peaks of Old Baldy and Pork Chop Hill were the scenes of heavy fighting the month before this UFO sighting. (See APRO Bulletin, volume 1, number 6 for May 15, 1953. Quoted in Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War by Richard F. Haines, LDA Press, Los Altos, California, 1990, pages 60 and 61.)