UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Fort Smith, AR, USA

Colored, dimming, stat. light source, larger than stars seen at night SW of Fort Smith, AR, 1996-1997.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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 (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-30
Where
Fort Smith, AR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Hours for several nights
Geo
35.386, -94.399 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-smith-ar-1997-248643
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Fort Smith, AR shows up 44 times across the archive.
  • 11 reports came from Arkansas in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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