UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Alma, AR, USA

We were traveling S on 540 & saw 6 big bright orange fire balls moving & leaving steaks of smoke in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-04
Where
Alma, AR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
35.478, -94.222 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-alma-ar-2018-7dd776
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Alma, AR.
  • This case is one of 40 Arkansas reports filed in 2018.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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