READ MORE: Interactive Map: UFO Sightings Taken Seriously by the U.S. When it was shuttered, in December 1969, the Air Force announced they had found nothing of note, and terminated all activity under the auspices of the study. Why were there so many UFO sightings throughout the Korean war? Were they the product of thousands of exhausted men under incredible stress-or a sign of something more mysterious? From 1952 until 1969 the United States Air Force ran Project Blue Book, a systematic study into unidentified flying objects and their potential threat to national security. As the bullets hit the body of the craft, he recalled, they made a metallic “ding.” The object started behaving still more erratically, shunting from side to side as its lights flashed on and off. He asked his company commander for permission to fire at the object with armor-piercing bullets from an M-I rifle. And whereas at first, it had glowed orange, now it was a pulsating blue-green brilliant light.

Timmerman of the Center for UFO Studies in a 1987 interview. “We further noticed that this object would get right into.the center of an airburst of artillery and yet remain unharmed,” Wall later told John P. What happened after-the pulsing, “attacking” light, the lingering debilitating symptoms-would mystify many for decades to come.Īs the GIs watched, the craft made its way down into the village, where the artillery air bursts were starting to explode. As they were preparing to bombard a nearby village with artillery, all of a sudden, the soldiers saw a strange sight up in the hills-like “a jack-o-lantern come wafting down across the mountain.” Wall and his regiment found themselves stationed near Chorwon, about 60 miles north of Seoul. In May 1951, one year into the Korean War, PFC Francis P.

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