Korean Peninsula, Korea
A U.S. Marine Corps radar operator reported tracking three rectangular-shaped blips on a radar scope over the Korean Peninsula for about 20 seconds in June 1954.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (161 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-15
- Where
- Korean Peninsula, Korea
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 20 sec.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- rectangle-over-korean-peninsula-1954-883ae9
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Korean Peninsula, Korea.
- This case is one of 2 Korea reports filed in 1954.
- Rectangle craft made up 1% of 1950s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.