Richard Hall:
June 19, 1966; Nha Trang, Vietnam
9:45 p.m. At this active base on the
coastline of South Vietnam, soldiers were watching
an outdoor movie, made possible by recent
installation of six new, independently operated
100-kw diesel-powered generators. A Shell oil tanker
lay anchored in the bay, two Skyraider prop planes
were warming up on a nearby airstrip, and eight
bulldozers were at work on nearby hills. Suddenly
the sky to the north lit up, thought at first to be
a flare, and then a UFO approached (no descriptive
details) alternately moving at high and low speeds.
It descended toward the gathered soldiers, stopped
dead, and hovered at an altitude of about 300-500
feet. The entire valley and
surrounding mountains were illuminated brightly. The
generators failed and everything blacked
out on the base. The engines of the Skyraiders, the
bulldozers, the trucks, the power system of the
offshore Shell Oil tanker - everything (including
some diesel engines) all failed for about 4 minutes.
Then the UFO "... went straight up and completely
out of sight in about 2-3 seconds." After the
incident, a plane-load of officials from Washington
arrived to investigate.