Ft. Smith (60 mi. N of)(in-flight), AR, USA
Flying at 32,000ft, I saw two of the brightest objects I've ever seen moving at a high rate of speed. ((NUFORC Note: Pilot rept. PD))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-12
- Where
- Ft. Smith (60 mi. N of)(in-flight), AR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ft-smith-60-mi-n-of-in-flight-ar-2014-4b2557
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
- Ft. Smith (60 mi. N of)(in-flight), AR shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 35 reports came from Arkansas in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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