UFOMYST
CaseCircle1966

Tokishi Shima Island (Japan), Japan

Near Tokashiki Shima Island, Japan in June 1966, a radar operator reported tracking five circular objects from a distance of about 25 miles, over roughly 30 minutes.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (165 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-01
Where
Tokishi Shima Island (Japan), Japan
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
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Slug
circle-over-tokishi-shima-island-japan-1966-0f0e8c
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'…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Tokishi Shima Island (Japan), Japan in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Japan logged 1 sightings in 1966.
  • Circle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 1960s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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