CaseFireball2020

Jasper, AR, USA

Twelve small constant unblinking lights moving eastward in the southern sky. One light quickly turned W (("Starlink" satellites??))

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-01-14
Where
Jasper, AR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
36.008, -93.187 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-jasper-ar-2020-6a009a
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Jasper, AR reports filed in January 2020.

In context

  • Jasper, AR shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 92 reports came from Arkansas in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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