Cam Rahn Bay (Viet Nam), South Vietnam
Near Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam on July 12, 1966, personnel reported an object with a bright light bouncing up and down over the flightline like a ball, silently, for about ten 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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (180 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-12
- Where
- Cam Rahn Bay (Viet Nam), South Vietnam
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- unknown-over-cam-rahn-bay-viet-nam-1966-0d1ac2
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Cam Rahn Bay (Viet Nam), South Vietnam in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Vietnam logged 1 sightings in 1966.
Report
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