Fort Smith, AR, USA
An account presents research findings on a chevron-shaped object sighting reported over Fort Smith, Arkansas, in August 1967, with the observed event lasting about 30 seconds.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-05
- Where
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-fort-smith-ar-1967-16abda
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Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Fort Smith, AR reports filed in August 1967.
In context
- Fort Smith, AR shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Arkansas in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 0.9% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.
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