CaseCircle1966

Qui-Nhon (Viet Nam), Viet Nam

ORANGE GLOWNG LIGHT MOVING TOWARD US STOPPING BREFLY AND BACKING UP AND THE LIGHT WENT OUT

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-06
Where
Qui-Nhon (Viet Nam), Viet Nam
Shape
Circle
Duration
15-20 SECONDS
Geo
13.776, 109.224 · exact
Slug
circle-over-qui-nhon-viet-nam-1966-bc77ac
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • Qui-Nhon (Viet Nam), Viet Nam has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 6 reports from Viet Nam.
  • The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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