Ewakuni (Japan), Japan
A U.S. Marine in Iwakuni, Japan reported an object descending from the sky, traveling across the bay, and then shooting back upward, in a sighting lasting about five minutes, June 1965.
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-15
- Where
- Ewakuni (Japan), Japan
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- approximately 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-ewakuni-japan-1965-485a23
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
- Ewakuni (Japan), Japan has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 3 reports from Japan.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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