UFOMYST
CaseChanging2004

Fort Smith, AR, USA

My brother Jim whom is retired Air Force, thought he was showing me the north star, I went and got some binoculars and that is when we

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: 1560s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-07
Where
Fort Smith, AR, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
26 minutes
Geo
35.386, -94.399 · exact
Slug
changing-over-fort-smith-ar-2004-833ea2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fort Smith, AR has 44 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 34 reports from Arkansas.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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