Person
Lee Seung-bae
Also known as 이승배, Col. Lee Seung-bae
- Colonel, Republic of Korea Air Force (retired 1989); F-4 Phantom flight leader, about 3,500 flying hours
Lee Seung-bae is a retired Republic of Korea Air Force colonel, a graduate of the 13th class of the Air Force Academy, with 24 years of flying and about 3,500 flying hours, some 1,800 of them on the F-4D/E Phantom. As a lieutenant colonel he led the two-Phantom formation that watched an unidentified object over North Gyeongsang province on the night of 31 March 1980.
He began speaking about it after retiring in 1989; Monthly Chosun published an interview with him in February 1992, and in 2016 he wrote a detailed report for the Korean UFO research centre KUFOS.
Sources: Cho Gab-je (2021), citing Monthly Chosun (February 1992) · KUFOS (2020)
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Incidents
- Republic of Korea Air Force Phantoms encounter (witness) — He led the two-Phantom formation as a lieutenant colonel