CaseTeardrop2003
Fort Smith, AR, USA
quivering flashing object high and distant in the Northeast sky ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2003-10-24
- Where
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- for an hour now
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-fort-smith-ar-2003-92bd8d
In context
- Fort Smith, AR shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from Arkansas in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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