South Korea Kimpo Airport UAP 2023

On September 14, 2023, a Korean Air Boeing 737 crew on approach to Gimpo International Airport reported an unidentified luminous orb hovering at 4,500 feet in the approach corridor — one of Asia's busiest. Gimpo ATC confirmed an unidentified radar return at the reported position. US Forces Korea assets monitoring Seoul metropolitan area airspace logged the contact through combined US-ROK air defense channels. The approach corridor to Gimpo passes through extremely sensitive airspace shared with adjacent Seoul Air Base. South Korea's Master Control and Reporting Center (MCRC) filed an official incident report through the combined US-ROK command channel. No identification was possible. The incident was one of several Korean peninsula UAP contacts in 2023 that were included in the Pentagon's AARO reporting database as part of the global UAP reporting expansion initiated after the 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act required DoD to systematically collect allied nation reports.