Fort Smith, AR, USA
Hundreds of witnesses reported teardrop-shaped unidentified objects over Fort Smith, Arkansas, during a sighting lasting three to four hours in August 1967.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 12600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (156 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-05
- Where
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 - 4 hours
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-fort-smith-ar-1967-2ed3e3
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Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
Local cluster
August 1967 was a busy month for Fort Smith, AR: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 44 reports logged in Fort Smith, AR.
- This case is one of 6 Arkansas reports filed in 1967.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.3% of 1960s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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