Jacksonville, AR, USA
Luminious at a distance, very fire like ( massive blaze, orangish-red glow, turning amber up close. Very quiet. Triangular shape,
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 (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-05-01
- Where
- Jacksonville, AR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.866, -92.110 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-jacksonville-ar-1977-045c7b
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In context
- Jacksonville, AR has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1977 brought 3 reports from Arkansas.
- The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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