Fort Chafee, AR, USA
Large green flash light up entire area no noise left a smoke plum trail that lasted a while. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor?? Anonymous. PD))
Report quality: Low23/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-01-30
- Where
- Fort Chafee, AR, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- Southwest sky
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- flash-over-fort-chafee-ar-2017-a84ebe
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
- Fort Chafee, AR has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 49 reports from Arkansas.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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