| ID | #1548945413 |
| Added | Thu, 31/01/2019 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | John Timmerman, J. Allen Hynek Center For UFO Studies (credit: CNI News)
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Research
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This text is an edited transcript of an interview between Francis P. Wall and John Timmerman, a fellow at the UFO Research Center. J. Allen Heinek (CUFOS) in Chicago, Illinois. The interview took place in January 1987.
CNI News thanks John Timmerman for allowing this text to be reprinted. Mr. Wall describes his experience as follows:
"The event I'm going to talk about actually happened, so help me, God. It happened in the early spring of 1951 in Korea. We were in the Army Infantry of the 25th Division, the 27th Regiment, the 2nd Battalion Of the Company "Easy". We were near the town of Choron, in a place that is marked on military maps as the Iron Triangle.
It was night. We are located on the slopes of the mountain, below which there was a Korean village. Earlier we sent our people to this village to warn the locals that we are going to fire artillery at it. That's what we were doing that night. We carried out artillery strikes from the air.
Suddenly on the right we noticed something that seemed to be a lantern flying down the hillside. At first, no one paid much attention to him. We watched as he continued down to the village, where artillery shells were exploding. At first, the object glowed orange. We noticed that it was so fast that it could hit the center of the explosion of the artillery shell and still remain unscathed.
I'd say it lasted anywhere from forty-five minutes to an hour.
But then this object came close to us. He began to radiate a bright blue-green light. It was difficult to determine its size, because there was nothing to compare. The light was throbbing. The object came close to us.
I asked for permission from Lieutenant Evans, our commander, to shoot at the facility. I fired an M-1 rifle with armor-piercing bullets. The object must have been metal because we heard a projectile crash into it.
Why did this bullet damage the object when artillery shells failed to do so? I do not know. Maybe they cleaned up their defensive field, or there was some other reason. But the object freaked out, its glow began to turn on and off. He began to move erratically from side to side, as if he were about to collapse to the ground. Then there was the sound - and before that we didn't hear any sound - a sound that looked like a diesel locomotive gaining momentum. That's what the thing sounded like.
And then we were attacked. We were gripped by some ray that radiated pulses, waves that could only be seen when it was aimed directly at us. That is like a spotlight. We felt a burning sensation, a tingling sensation all over our bodies, as if something had penetrated us.
So, the company commander, Lieutenant Evans, drove us into the dugouts. We didn't know what could have happened next. We were scared. These were underground dugouts, with observation pits, to see the enemy and fire at him. So I was in a bunker with another man. We were looking at this thing. For a while, she hovered above us, illuminating the whole neighborhood, and then I saw her rushing up at a 45-degree angle and disappearing. It was very fast.
Three days later, medics had to evacuate the entire unit. People had to be driven because they were too weak to walk. They had dysentery. Then it turned out that they had an extremely high level of white blood cells, which doctors could not explain.
In the army every day you file a report. We had a discussion about whether to report what happened in the report. And the general decision was not to report. Therefore, each of us would be locked up, suspecting that we all went mad. No one had heard of UFOs at the time and we didn't know what it was.
I still don't know what it was. But I know that since then I have had periodic bouts of disorientation, memory loss. I was losing a lot of weight and it was very difficult for me to maintain my weight. In fact, today I am retired and disabled."
Original news
Korean War Battlefield UFO Encounter
Bizarre Craft Hit Soldiers With Debilitating Light Beam
Courtesy John Timmerman, J. Allen Hynek Center For UFO Studies
Courtesy CNI News
This text is an edited transcript of an interview between Mr. Francis P. Wall, a private first class (PFC) in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and John Timmerman, an associate of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Chicago, Illinois. The interview took place in January, 1987. Noted UFO researcher Richard F. Haines checked military records and found Mr. Wall listed as a Korean combatant in the infantry unit he names below. Haines also requested and received from Mr. Wall a drawing of the aerial object he claims to have seen. The drawing depicts a very typical “flying saucer.” CNI News thanks John Timmerman for permission to reprint this text. Mr. Wall recounts his experience as follows:
“This event that I am about to relate to you is the truth, so help me God. It happened in the early Spring of 1951 in Korea. We were in the Army infantry, 25th Division, 27th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, ‘Easy’ Company. We were in what is known on the military maps as the Iron Triangle, near Chorwon.
“It is night. We are located on the slopes of a mountain, below [which] there is a Korean village. Previously we have sent our men into this village to warn the populace that we are going to bombard it with artillery. On this night, we were doing just that. We had aerial artillery bursts coming in.
“We suddenly noticed on our right-hand side what appeared to be a jack-o-lantern come wafting down across the mountain. And at first no one thought anything about it. So we noticed that this thing continued on down to the village to where, indeed, the artillery air bursts were exploding. It had an orange glow in the beginning. We further noticed that this object was [so] quick that it could get into the center of an airburst of artillery and yet remain unharmed.
“[The] time element on this, I would say, [was] anywhere from, oh, forty-five minutes to an hour all told.
“But then this object approached us. And it turned a blue-green brilliant light. It’s hard to distinguish the size of it; there’s no way to compare it. The light was pulsating. This object approached us.
“I asked for and received permission from Lt. Evans, our campany commander at that time, to fire upon this object, which I did with an M-1 rifle with armor-piercing bullets. And I did hit it. It must have been metallic because you could hear when the projectile slammed into it.
“Now why would that bullet damage this craft if the artillery rounds didn’t? I don’t know, unless they had dropped their protective field around them, or whatever. But the object went wild, and the light was going on and off. It went off completely once, briefly. And it was moving erratically from side to side as though it might crash to the ground. Then, a sound — we had heard no sound previous to this — the sound of, like, diesel locomotives revving up. That’s the way this thing sounded.
“And then, we were attacked. We were swept by some form of a ray that was emitted in pulses, in waves that you could visually see only when it was aiming directly at you. That is to say, like a searchlight sweeps around and… you would see it coming at you. Now you would feel a burning, tingling sensation all over your body, as though something were penetrating you.
“So the company commander, Lt. Evans, hauled us into our bunkers. We didn’t know what was going to happen. We were scared. These are underground dugouts where you have peep holes to look out to fire at the enemy. So, I’m in my bunker with another man. We’re peeping out at this thing. It hovered over us for a while, lit up the whole area with its light, and then I saw it shoot off at a 45 degree angle, that quick, just there and gone. That quick. And it was as though that was the end of it.
“But, three days later the entire company of men had to be evacuated by ambulance. They had to cut roads in there and haul them out. They were too weak to walk. They had dysentery. Then subsequently, when the doctors did see them, they had an extremely high white blood cell count which the doctors could not account for.
“Now in the military, especially the Army, each day you file a company report. We had a confab about that. Do we file it in the report or not? And the consensus was ‘No.’ Because they’d lock every one of us up and think we were crazy. At that time, no such thing as a UFO had ever been heard of, and we didn’t know what it was.
“I still don’t know what it was. But I do know that since that time I have periods of disorientation, memory loss, and I dropped from 180 pounds to 138 pounds after I got back to this country. And I’ve had great difficulty keeping my weight up. Indeed, I’m retired and disabled today.”
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