Iwakuni (Japan), Japan
A witness in Iwakuni, Japan reported a light skimming across the bay, in a sighting lasting about two minutes in June 1965.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-15
- Where
- Iwakuni (Japan), Japan
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes?
- Geo
- 34.163, 132.220 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-iwakuni-japan-1965-39e0f1
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 2 documented reports from Iwakuni (Japan), Japan in the UFOMYST archive.
- Japan logged 3 sightings in 1965.
- Light sightings ran at 11.3% during the 1960s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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