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This section contains descriptions of unexplained facts provided by eyewitnesses or published in the media, as well as the results of their analysis by the group.

UFO. South Korea

ID	#1668590489
Added	Wed, 16/11/2022
Author	July N.
Sources	earth-chronicles.ru sillok.history.go.kr kyujanggak.snu.ac.kr
Phenomena	UFO
Status	Hypothesis

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness

Incident date:

22.09.1609 09:11

Location:

Чхунчхон

Gangwon-do

South Korea

On September 22 (August 25 according to the lunar calendar), 1609, which was the first year of the reign of King Kwanghegong, throughout the day people throughout the kingdom observed numerous "anomalous air phenomena".

Time: 巳時 (09-11 am)

In Chuncheon, Gangwon Province:

Weather description: The weather was clear and blue, except for a short cloud in the southeast sky.

A strange aerial phenomenon: at noon, a fiery light was observed in the sky. It had the shape of a large bowl, formed in the southeast and flew north. It was very large and moved like an arrow, but after a while the fiery object gradually dissipated, blue and white smoke appeared and expanded, which began to fly along a curve and did not dissipate for a long time. Sounds like thunder and drums shook the sky and earth, and then stopped.

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Meteor

Meteor, "shooting star" is a phenomenon that occurs when small meteor bodies (for example, fragments of comets or asteroids) burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. A similar phenomenon of greater intensity (brighter than magnitude -4) it's called a fireball.