12-??-1950   

Sighting Flying Discs Again? 

       USS GARDINERS BAY—While steaming up the channel from Inch’on, Korea, two mysterious missiles trailing long white smoke trails in the sky struck the water at great speed off the ship’s bow.

       Two huge columns of water rose to about 100 feet in height at the point of contact. No aircraft could be sighted by radar or visually overhead although the ceiling was unlimited. Identification of the missiles remains a great mystery.                                                           

This is the original reference: Naval Aviation News, February 1951, p. 26

       Secondary: Several news clips. Thanks to CUFOS           

UFOCAT PRN – 56167 [DOS: 12-??-1950]

UFOCAT URN – NONE    Naval Aviation News, February 1951, p. 26

UFOCAT URN – 056167 Newspaper clipping February 19, 1951

UFOCAT URN – 016520 Anatomy of a Phenomenon by J. Vallee, p. 133, © 1966

UFOCAT URN – 073285 Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 36-37, © 1970

UFOCAT URN – NONE    Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century by Janet & Colin Bord,

                                        p. 168, © 1989.

UFOCAT URN – 136623 UFO’s and the National Security State, Vol. 1, 1941-1973 by Richard M.

                                        Dolan, 493-063, © 2000

UFOCAT URN – 071025 World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports by Peter Rogerson, #0221,

                                        © date unknown

UFOCAT URN – 016519 Catalog Through 1950 by H. Edward Hill, #421, © date unknown    

UFOCAT PRN – 16520 [DOS: 12-??-1950]

UFOCAT URN – 016522 Computerized Catalog (N=3173), #0273 by L. Schoenherr, no © date.

Eastern Asia – Korea, Inch'on-Jiku

Inch’on Harbor – Latitude 37-28 N, Longitude 126-37 E (D-M)

Reference: South Korea Gazetteer, prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., USA, December 1966       

UFO Location (UFOCAT) Latitude 37.47 N, Longitude 126.63 E (D.%)