CaseCircle1956

Hope, AR, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Hope, AR, USA
Start: 1956-09-20
Location: Hope, AR, USA

Sitting on a pond bank on sunny afternoon when 9 saucers appeared at 12:00 o'clock at a very high altitude. They were silver in color

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (133 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1956-09-20
Where: Hope, AR, USA
Shape: Circle
Duration: 20 minutes
Geo: 33.667, -93.592 · exact
Slug: circle-over-hope-ar-1956-1c3f1c

In context

Hope, AR shows up 2 times across the archive.
1 reports came from Arkansas in 1956.
In the 1950s, 10% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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