UFOMYST
CaseCircle1966

Qui-Nhon (Viet Nam), Viet Nam

Near Qui Nhon, Vietnam on June 6, 1966, witnesses reported an orange glowing circular light moving toward them, stopping briefly, backing up, then going out within 15 to 20 seconds.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (181 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-06
Where
Qui-Nhon (Viet Nam), Viet Nam
Shape
Circle
Duration
15-20 SECONDS
Geo
13.776, 109.224 · exact
Slug
circle-over-qui-nhon-viet-nam-1966-bc77ac
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'…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Qui-Nhon (Viet Nam), Viet Nam has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 6 reports from Viet Nam.
  • The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

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.