It's May, 1951, and the Korean War has been raging for a year.
The world is still weary from the ravages of World War II, and the United States is
the only nation capable of leading a UN response to the attempts by the communist North to
seize South Korea and unify the peninsula by force.
The conflict has set the stage for a defining age in human history- the Cold War- and soon
a regiment of American soldiers will find that curious visitors from another world may
also be interested in how this war plays out.
The Americans are sixty miles north of Seoul.
The jungle is thick and oppressively hot, the North Koreans have been pushed back from
South Korea in a brilliant pincer movement carried out by US forces.
Rather than risk being destroyed completely, North Korean forces quickly retreated into
the north as US-led NATO troops attempted to encircle them with an amphibious landing
in the north.
Despite these military successes though, the troops are nervous, at every sunrise every
man on the front lines has one question on their lips: have the Soviets joined the war?
Have we finally started World War III?
Private First class Francis P. Wall and his platoon are providing security for an attachment
of artillery, which is itself preparing to rain down fire on a village full of North
Korean forces.
Men watch the jungle around them cautiously, despite being a few miles from the official
front, raiding parties against American artillery are not uncommon.
The artillery is set to fire just before dawn, the villagers below have all been warned of
the impending attack and told to flee.
As the hour approaches, the big guns begin opening up.
Artillery shells whiz through the air, bursting just above the village and showering the North
Korean troops below with deadly shrapnel.
The thunderous booms echo across the hills, as a dozen guns open up one by one and deliver
death to the enemy.
Suddenly though, Private Wall and the other men responsible for providing security for
the artillery see something in the hills above the village.
It seems that the bombardment has attracted the attention of something none of the men
will ever be able to explain.
The light is dim at first, but quickly grows in brightness as it moves down the jungle
hill.
To the Americans it appears like a floating jack-o-lantern, emitting some kind of light
from its body that is at first, orange in color.
To their shock, the light moves just over the village even as the American artillery
continues to pour fire into it.
The air-bursting shells detonate all around it, and then the light does something incredible.
In a move that defies all known physics, the light is able to rapidly move to the side
of an exploding shell, avoiding being directly hit by the rounds.
Even avoiding a direct hit, the object which by now the men know must be some sort of craft,
must have some sort of protective shielding, as it is still being showered by frag from
the exploding artillery shells.
If it is receiving any damage though, the Americans on the ground are unable to tell,
and simply watch in awe for almost an hour as the craft weathers the bombardment on the
village.
Then, the craft turns its sights on the Americans.
With no warning, the craft turns in place and now moves directly towards the American
position.
The men are nervous, nothing in their training has prepared them for this.
Is it a secret Soviet craft, perhaps based on stolen Nazi technology?
The speculation runs wild as the men prepare for what might be an attack on their position.
Private Wall asks his company commander for permission to fire on the object as it approaches,
using his M-1 rifle loaded with armor-piercing rounds.
His company commander agrees, and as the object approaches, still bathed in orange light,
Wall and his squad mates open up.
Their fire is accurate, and the craft comes under fire from several rifles.
If the craft was employing some sort of protective shielding against the artillery's shrapnel
blast, it must have dropped it because the men are able to clearly hear the metallic
sides of the craft ringing out from the sound of their bullets striking it.
As the men fire, a few of the armor piercing rounds must have found their mark, piercing
the strange craft.
Suddenly, the craft goes wild.
The light begins flickering on and off erratically, and the craft makes crazy, sporadic movements
from side to side.
At one point, though the craft remains floating in the air above the GIs, the light goes completely
off, but then seems to flicker back to life.
The Americans on the ground worry that the craft is going to either explode or come crashing
down on their heads!
Then, the craft seems to regain its stability, and suddenly the mountain valley is filled
with the unbearable sound of what seem to be dozens of diesel train locomotives starting
up all at once.
The craft begins pulsing bluish light, and attacks the soldiers below.
As the men watch helplessly, the craft sweeps a ray across the battlefield below it.
The brightly colored ray seems to come in pulses that the men can only see when it sweeps
directly over them.
Like car headlights or a searchlight in the dark, the craft sweeps this ray across the
ground below it, seeking out soldiers where they lay in their fighting positions.
As it sweeps over each man, they are wracked with a burning, tingling sensation all over
their flesh.
The company commander immediately shouts for his men to take shelter in their bunkers.
Small dugouts reinforced with plywood and sandbags, the bunkers offer protection for
the men from artillery bombardments, and the soldiers dive below the ground to take shelter
from the mysterious ray.
From inside these bunkers, the soldiers are able to watch the craft through small peepholes-
some of them even start returning fire from small firing slits.
The craft suddenly blasts the entire area with a bright light, turning night into day
briefly.
Perhaps frustrated by the men safely out of its grasp in their bunkers, the craft then
pulses with light once more, and without warning, shoots off at a 45 degree angle.
To the astonishment of Private Wall, the craft seems to fly off at impossible speed, quickly
being lost to the starry night sky.
Lingering in their bunkers, it's a few minutes before the men work up the courage to leave
the safety they offer.
The company commander quickly calls for a meeting, and to a man the soldiers all agree
on one thing: they aren't telling a soul about what they just experienced.
While each day the company is expected to file a report on its activities for the day,
the company commander agrees that it's best to leave this one off the books for now, for
fear that they will all be thought of as crazy.
At the time there is no such thing as UFOs in the public consciousness, and while mysterious
stories of World War II 'Foo Fighters' circulate through the military, nobody has yet made
the link between their appearances and otherworldly alien visitors.
Better then to keep everyone's mouth shut so they don't end up locked up in the looney
bin.
However a few days later, the men of the 25th Infantry Division, 27th regiment, 2nd battalion,
'Easy' company start to fall ill.
They are nauseous, have terrible headaches, and diarrhea.
So many of them are affected at once that the Army has to cut a road through the jungle
to send ambulances and evacuate many of them.
When doctors examine them they find that the men have extremely high counts of white blood
cells, and seem to be suffering from dysentery.
After the war Private Wall would struggle with PTSD, and drop from 180 pounds (82 kg)
to 136 (62kg).
The weight loss would be permanent, and the private would struggle all his life with weight
issues as he struggled to recover to his normal weight.
An official explanation for the event was never given, and with no official report filed
an investigation was never conducted.
Whatever the men saw that night in Korea though was not a one-time incident, as GIs all across
the conflict would tell very similar stories.
For years the mysterious craft are thought to possibly be Soviet secret weapons, but
when those weapons never materialized in Soviet arsenals, the men involved would be forced
to look for more otherworldly explanations.
As the Cold War came to an end, it was revealed that on their side of the Iron Curtain, the
Soviets were also encountering strange alien craft.
Some even alleged that the Soviet military had even been involved in conflict with underwater
alien beings.
According to allegedly secret documents leaked by former Soviet intelligence officials turned
whistleblowers, military divers encountered a strange being in a silvery diving suit with
a bubble like helmet.
When they returned to the area later to try and capture it with a net, the divers were
forcibly sent upwards towards the surface by an invisible force.
Their quick ascension from fifty meters down gave many of the men the bends.
However others argue that UFO sightings in war time Korea or even during the Cold War
were nothing more than simply the effects of severe stress on the human brain With both
sides acutely aware that a full-scale global war could erupt at any time, plus with the
stress of normal combat, the mind may play tricks on people, even creating outright hallucinations.
Plus as some have pointed out, the symptoms that Private Wall described are similar to
regular dysentery.
Whatever the truth is, wartime UFO sightings are nothing new, and the Korean war is seen
by many as the floodgate opening up to what would become a full-blown alien incursion
of planet earth.
Perhaps this isn't as surprising as it might seem though, after all this was just years
after the United States developed a working nuclear weapon, propelling humanity into the
atomic age.
And shortly after, the world found itself in the grip of a potentially civilization-destroying
Cold War.
Could aliens have been interested in how this part of human history played out?
If reports from Korea are true, the answer may be a very frightful yes.
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