CaseCircle2017

Dardanelle, AR, USA

I saw a large white light zip not only across the sky, but angled downwards at high speeds.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-09
Where
Dardanelle, AR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
35.223, -93.158 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dardanelle-ar-2017-c6c0dd
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…

In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Dardanelle, AR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arkansas logged 49 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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