Nha Trang Air Base, Vietnam: Bright object hovers over soldiers, base loses power

At 9:45 p.m., US Army soldiers were watching an outdoor movie at Nha Trang Air Base on the southern edge of Nha Trang, Vietnam, powered by six new 100 kW diesel generators; a Shell Oil tanker lay in Nha Trang Bay, two A-1 Skyraiders were warming up and eight bulldozers were at work on nearby hills. Sgt. William Dalrymple saw the sky light up to the north as a bright object approached, alternately moving fast and slowing down. It descended toward the soldiers, stopped dead and hovered about 300–500 feet above the ground, lighting up the valley and hills. The generators then failed and everything on the base went black for 4 minutes. The object finally went straight up and out of sight in 2–3 seconds. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.