West Memphis, AR, USA
A big round disk over the Mississppi River the size of two football fields. It was white luminious object 1500 feet above the river. I
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-07
- Where
- West Memphis, AR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 35.146, -90.185 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-west-memphis-ar-2008-f2a6aa
Part of a wave
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
- West Memphis, AR shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 40 reports came from Arkansas in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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