UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Fort Smith, AR, USA

Bright white light moved from SE horizon to WNW horizon in roughly 2-3 seconds.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-01
Where
Fort Smith, AR, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
<3 seconds
Geo
35.386, -94.399 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-smith-ar-2008-300bbf
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…

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In context

  • One of 44 documented reports from Fort Smith, AR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arkansas logged 40 sightings in 2008.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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