CASE FILE · DD-33
1952 Wonsan–Sunchon B-29 light reports
Period · 1952Place · Wonsan and Sunchon airspace, Korea
01 · OVERVIEW
Case overview
On 29 January 1952, separate B-29 crews on Korean War night missions reported orange or bluish spherical lights pacing their aircraft near Wonsan and Sunchon. Project Blue Book cards and Far East Air Forces material preserve the reports. Enemy aircraft or antiaircraft devices, celestial objects, flares and electrical luminosity have all been considered, but the public record does not establish an identity.
A U.S. Air Force record photograph of 19th Bomb Group B-29s over Korea; it is not identified as the specific sighting aircraft.
U.S. Air Force · Wikimedia Commons · public domain ↗03 · IMAGE CONTEXT
Image analysis
The image shows the aircraft and operational setting. No reported light is visible; evaluation must rely on the Blue Book cards and crew accounts.04 · EVIDENCE REVIEW
Nature of the evidence
U.S. Air Force case cards, intelligence material and multiple crew reports
Some transcription discrepancies in dates and the precise cause of the lights
Government recordMultiple witnesses
05 · SOURCE TRAIL