UFOs in
formation
filmed by
S. Korean
Seoul, AFP. Bang
✓
Bangkok Post
18. Oct. 95
FOOTAGE purportedly show-
ing unidentified flying objects
(UFOs) in formation was aired
on an evening prime time tele-
vision newscast on Monday
that riveted viewers across
South Korea.
The film, allegedly taken on
September 4 by a local cable
television cameraman north of
Seoul, showed a clear image of
white, luminous saucer-shaped
objects flying in formation
against a blue sky:
The footage, aired for four
minutes and 44 seconds;
showed a big brilliant cluster.
comprising 10 small saucers
that flew in parallel, in a verti-
cal formation..
"The flying objects were àc-
cidentally taken by my TV
camera while I was on a trip to
-scout out locations," Lee Hee
Hong, 33, a cameraman for
Kangwon Cable News, said in
a televised interview shown
with his film.
Kang said he had been reluc
tant to publicise the film for
fear of ridicule.
MBC television said it was
the first UFO film footage tak-
en in South Korea and shown
unedited.
Kang said the UFO film was
taken in Kapyong, some 50 ki-
lometres northeast of Seoul,
the same place where a news-
paper photographer allegedly
took a picture of what UFO
experts described as a typical
flying saucer on September 3.
That photograph, taken by
Kim Sun-Kyu of the Seoul
newspaper Munhwa Ilbo, was
selected as one of the nation's
best five news pictures for Sep-
tember by an association of
South Korean photographers.
In the first week of Septem-
ber, UFOs were witnessed by
many people in the area, news-
papers said, although scien-
tists remained sceptical about
the alleged sightings.