UPI and AP issued a press release quoting: General Brown, US Air Force Chief-of-Staff; ‘Early in the summer of 1968 near the Demilitarised Zone, [Vietnam], there was a series of [UFO] sightings which set off quite a battle, with an Australian destroyer taking a hit’. The destroyer was HMAS HOBART, hit by US aircraft missiles.
Australian Naval History on 18 October 1973
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