CaseLight2003

Charleston/Van Buren, AR, USA

((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Mars. PD)) A bright dancing light in the south-southeast sky.

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2003-08-07
Where
Charleston/Van Buren, AR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 Hours
Geo
35.297, -94.036 · exact
Slug
light-over-charleston-van-buren-ar-2003-62ef5d

In context

  • Charleston/Van Buren, AR shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 58 reports came from Arkansas in 2003.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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