Overview
A report published by DongA Science on October 3, 2026, examines several unresolved UFO—or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP)—cases involving observations from South Korea, the United States and Ukraine. The article highlights how improved cameras, infrared sensors and astronomical equipment have generated more visual evidence, while emphasizing that images and videos alone rarely establish an object’s identity, distance or speed.
Although the report refers to scientific scrutiny involving Harvard researchers and Korean UAP specialists, the available source material does not describe a formal joint study, published methodology or confirmed findings. Instead, it presents several cases and expert assessments stressing the need for additional data and independent verification.
Three Lights Over Gimpo
One case concerns three bright white points observed over Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, in August 2026. According to the report, the lights appeared in daylight, maintained a relatively constant distance from one another and moved slowly while changing position. The video did not show abrupt acceleration or sharp changes in direction, and the objects’ shapes could not be clearly identified.
Seo Jong-han, an adviser to the Korean UAP Society, said the footage was insufficient to determine the objects’ location or velocity. “We need to confirm the situation at the time of filming and interview the witness to determine what it is,” Seo said. Possible explanations cannot be evaluated reliably without information such as the camera’s orientation, the objects’ angular movement and the surrounding weather and air-traffic conditions.
Military Sensor Footage Over the Yellow Sea
The report also discusses a 2023 incident over the West Sea, or Yellow Sea, in which a military aircraft’s high-resolution infrared sensor tracked an object for approximately four minutes and 45 seconds. The case was among records the U.S. Department of Defense reportedly released beginning in May 2026, as part of a total of 375 photographs, videos and reports issued on five occasions.
The footage reportedly included unusual behavior, including possible interference with the aircraft’s sensors. However, Yoon Dong-ki, vice president of the Korean UAP Society, cautioned that analysis remains difficult because key information—including the object’s precise time, speed and location—is unavailable. Sensor anomalies may reflect a physical object, atmospheric effects, equipment limitations or data-processing issues; distinguishing among those possibilities requires access to complete instrument records.
Claims of Objects Near the Moon
A separate claim came from researchers at Ukraine’s Main Astronomical Observatory, who announced in January 2026 that more than 20 objects had been detected in video recorded around the Moon in 2025. Assuming the objects were close to the lunar surface, the researchers estimated that some could be as large as 36 kilometers and travel at speeds of up to 11 kilometers per second. The reported objects appeared disk- or doughnut-shaped and showed periodic changes in brightness.
Those estimates remain unverified in the scientific literature, as the findings had not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Harvard professor Avi Loeb offered a conventional caution: observations made with a single ground-based telescope can cause nearby terrestrial objects to appear to pass in front of the Moon. Multiple telescopes and independent observations would be needed to establish distance and scale.
Evidence, Not Assumptions
The report also refers to a 1995 photograph taken by Munhwa Ilbo photojournalist Kim Seon-kyu in Gapyeong County, Gyeonggi Province, in which an unidentified object was noticed during later review. The source excerpt does not provide enough information to assess the image’s origin or explain how it was analyzed.
Taken together, the cases illustrate the central challenge of UAP research: an unexplained observation is not necessarily evidence of an extraordinary craft. Witness interviews, calibrated instruments, multiple viewing locations, flight and weather records, and reproducible analysis are essential before stronger conclusions can be drawn. For now, the cases remain unresolved observations rather than scientifically confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
