UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Fort Smith, AR, USA

Bright white round light ball, no Nav lights, no sound from the craft and not a meteor too clow for that.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-05
Where
Fort Smith, AR, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
35.386, -94.399 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-fort-smith-ar-2012-cebd14
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 44 reports logged in Fort Smith, AR.
  • This case is one of 58 Arkansas reports filed in 2012.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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