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
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
- 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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