CaseFireball1999
Van Buren, AR, USA
A substantial flash of light in the sky. It appeared to be as small as an aircraft beacon at first, but immediatly became larger, then
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-05-01
- Where
- Van Buren, AR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 sec. max.
- Geo
- 35.437, -94.348 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-van-buren-ar-1999-8b0620
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Van Buren, AR.
- This case is one of 37 Arkansas reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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