From: Brian Zeiler (bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu)

Copyright 1995 Agence France Presse
Agence France Presse
October 17, 1995 03:50 Eastern Time
SECTION: International news
HEADLINE: UFO formation said to be filmed by South Korean TV cameraman

BODY: Footage purportedly showing unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in for mationwas aired on an evening primetime television newscast Monday that ri vetted 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-s haped 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 vertical formation.

"The flying objects were accidentally taken by my TV camera while I was on a trip to scout out locations," Lee Hee-Hong, 33, a cameraman for Kang won Cable News, said in a televised interview shown with his film.

Kang said he had been reluctant to publicize the film for fear of ridic ule.

MBC television said it was the first UFO film footage taken in South Korea and shown unedited.

Kang said the UFO film was taken in Kapyong, some 50 kilometers (30 m iles) northeast of Seoul, the same place where a newspaper photographer al legedly tooka 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 Ilb o, wasselected as one of the nation's best five news pictures for Septembe r by an association of South Korean photographers.

In the first week of September, UFOs were witnessed by ma ny people in the area, newspapers said, although scientists remained skeptical about the al leged sightings.