Interesting but several years before this incident my father a fighter pilot serving in Korea had an encounter with “UFO” over Korea, unknown type craft, same incredible speed (nothing known in technology at the time) when it disappeared....
he was smart enough to never tell anyone about his encounter except my mother.
I never could understand this alleged fear about admitting to seeing something strange or odd. Heck, we are all fascinated by it.
A few years back when flying in an OH-58, the pilot and I saw “something.” We couldn't actually figure out what it was but we wasted no time in telling everyone about it when we landed. (Incident written up in Paul H. Smith's book, “Reading the Enemy's Mind.”)
Many of my fighter pilot peers have seen some strange things and we all talk about it in the bar. Not one holds back for fear of. . . what. . .I dunno. . .
My dad was an intercept technician with an air control squadron on Okinawa when the Korean War broke out, and he has told me that more than once they would vector a fighter out to a target, then said target would suddenly move off like a bat out of hell. When visual contact was made by the a/c, the pilots were shocked (at the very least).
It was what it was, whatever it was... the point being that it was happening with enough regularity in the early 1950's to make some people at Kadena and Naha wonder what was going on.
Mr. niteowl77
There were and are still formal reporting procedures and regs that apply.
Commercial pilots typically ignore them to avoid the hassles, too.
“Interesting but several years before this incident my father a fighter pilot serving in Korea had an encounter with “UFO” over Korea, unknown type craft, same incredible speed (nothing known in technology at the time) when it disappeared....”
In 1952 when I was in high school at lunch one day there was a “flying saucer” I would guess at about 15k ft. with jets after it.
I watched it for about 10 minutes until the end of lunch bell rang and had to return to class.
The 2 jets would come at from 2 sides and before they got close it would shoot away probably a quarter mile at least 10 times the speed of the fighters and just hover there.
The jets would turn and go at it again with the same result every time.
They probably did this a dozen times before I had to go back to class.
I never made a big deal out of it, just thought it was interesting.