Viet Nam, Viet Nam
Object was seen less than 300 feet from the ground it was in our free fire zone I was armed with a M60 michine gun I made no attempt to
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-30
- Where
- Viet Nam, Viet Nam
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 8 min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-viet-nam-1966-e01d64
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Viet Nam, Viet Nam.
- This case is one of 6 Viet Nam reports filed in 1966.
- Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.