CaseOther2016

Paragould, AR, USA

Falling object in daylight with streak of black smoke trail, turns and travels opposite from Earth along the same route that it fell.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-25
Where
Paragould, AR, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
36.058, -90.497 · exact
Slug
other-over-paragould-ar-2016-6caf95
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

  • Paragould, AR shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 42 reports came from Arkansas in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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