Fort Smith, AR, USA
Sixties mass sighiting in Fort Smith recounted by military pilot witness.
Report quality: Moderate63/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (73 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
- Multiple events over 3-4
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-fort-smith-ar-1967-ef13e4
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
3 reports came out of Fort Smith, AR in August 1967 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Fort Smith, AR has 44 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 6 reports from Arkansas.
- The 1960s skewed 0.9% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
Report
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