Van Buren, AR, USA
There were two different objects in the western sky one above the other. It looked like stars during the sunset and after the sun went
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-22
- Where
- Van Buren, AR, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 35.437, -94.348 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-van-buren-ar-2014-50ac9f
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
- Van Buren, AR shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 35 reports came from Arkansas in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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