CaseDisk1966

Viet Nam (3 mi. off coast of; aboard ship), Viet Nam

Witnesses aboard a ship about three miles off the coast of Vietnam reported a disk-shaped object that was observed for about 15 minutes before slowly moving away, in November 1966.

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (180 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-11-20
Where
Viet Nam (3 mi. off coast of; aboard ship), Viet Nam
Shape
Disk
Duration
Geo
Slug
disk-over-viet-nam-3-mi-off-coast-of-aboard-ship-1966-283cae
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

  • Viet Nam (3 mi. off coast of; aboard ship), Viet Nam has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 6 reports from Viet Nam.
  • The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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