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SUBJECT: UFO SIGHTINGS IN VIETNAM FILE: UFO1802
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NAM SIGHTING
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We were stationed at a security base in 'Nam in 1968. Some of
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the units there regularly made sweeps into an adjacent country where we
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were not supposed to be so the whole damned base was classified. My unit
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was out on routine patrol when we ran across Charlie and a fire fight
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ensued. It was late in the day and light was if we're mostly firing in the
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general direction that the return fire was coming from. Undergrowth was
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heavy and the fire fight ran hot and cold. There were periods of quiet
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followed by sporadic firing when someone thought they saw something or
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heard something. During one of these breaks Kelly noticed the object in the
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sky. I saw him staring up and looked up to find he was looking at a flat
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disk just hanging motionless there. Looked silver colored but was
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reflecting the setting sun so it was hard to tell. It just hovered there,
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not moving any way. Sounds like as stupid way to describe something, but it
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looked just like someone had taken two dinner plates and glued them face to
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face. Maybe it was a little flatter on the bottom than on the top, it was
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kind of hard to tell. We had to keep an eye out on the ground so we
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couldn't watch the object all the time, but it just sat there, sort of like
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it was watching us. I guess it was about thirty feet across or so and
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maybe 200-300 yards elevation. I could see no break on the smooth surface,
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and its color was changing as the sun went down.
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Most of the guys around me had seen it and some were damned puzzled.
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It didn't look like anything I had ever seen before and no one else knew
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what it was. Some guys thought it was some kind of observation craft from
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our side but that didn't sound right. As it grew darker, the fire fight
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died down. I think Charlie had withdrawn and we would probably doing the
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same soon. The object just sat there, slowly getting darker but still easy
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to see against the sky. Just about the time we figured we would be pulling
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back, Kelly got this idea that he would shoot the damned thing down. He
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always was a little nuts and he let loose with a burst. I don't know if he
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hit the thing, probably not. But a minute later it picked up and moved
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off. Not slowly but not real fast. It just sort of decided it had seen
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enough here and left.
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Maybe Kelly's firing at it had something to do with it, maybe not. I
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don't remember any sound as it left. It disappeared in a general south
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direction. I remember it didn't climb, just seemed to hold altitude and
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leave the area.
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We talked a lot about it but decided that we maybe shouldn't mention it
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to anyone. Hell, if it were something from our side, we could get in a lot
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of trouble for shooting it up. No body seriously thought it was from the
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North but a few wondered if it were something the Russians had sent down.
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We started calling it a UFO. Sort of figured that if it were a craft from
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some place else, maybe it wasn't a good idea to shoot at it. didn't tell
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anybody.
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The Lieutenant never saw it so we just shut up. Nobody liked that SOB
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anyway and we weren't going to go to him and tell him we saw a "flying
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saucer."
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I don't know what it was. I am sure, however, that if it were a
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chopper we would surely have heard the noise and could have easily
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identified it. I got the impression it was just watching us. I kind of
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figure Kelly's bullets, even it they had hit it, haven't done any damage.
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The above was copied, almost verbatim, from an unpublished book, "Nam
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Remembered" by Sgt. William Hansey.
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**********************************************
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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