Fort Smith, AR, USA
Witnesses in Fort Smith, Arkansas, reported a triangular, lighted object hovering in the sky during a five-minute sighting in 1967 or 1968.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (139 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-07-05
- Where
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-fort-smith-ar-1967-482512
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'…
In context
- This is one of 44 reports logged in Fort Smith, AR.
- This case is one of 6 Arkansas reports filed in 1967.
- Triangle craft made up 4.3% of 1960s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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