◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Tumbling Disc in Korea (1952)
At 08:42 on 6 June 1952 a flight sergeant at an Air Force base in Korea watched a disc spin and tumble over the field, stop, shoot straight up and vanish into the sun. The Air Force's own statistical study kept it among its twelve best unknowns. This is the record of what was reported, not a verdict on what was over the airfield.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Tumbling Disc in Korea (1952) is a reported UAP case in South Korea, 6 June 1952, 08:42.
- A flight sergeant at an Air Force base in Korea reported a disc that spun and tumbled over the field, stopped, shot straight up and disappeared into the sun, then flew back and forth across it.
- At one point an F-86 passed between the observer and the object, the Air Force summary says, and a second man watched it manoeuvre near the sun.
- Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 kept it among its twelve best unknowns but set it aside because its manoeuvres matched no other report.
- An intelligence report outside the release places the sighting at Kimpo and names the observer as Flight Sergeant Kenneth Dudley Smith of No. 77 Squadron RAAF.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source and 1 corroborating primary document.
- The archive grades it L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT — the archive holds one account of it, from a single source.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
6 June 1952, 08:42
LOCATION
K-14 Kimpo Air Field (now Gimpo), Seoul, South Korea · South Korea
COORDS
37.56°N 126.79°E
INDEPENDENCE
L0 · SINGLE ACCOUNT
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
0
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
