CaseLight2014

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
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…

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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