Mena, AR, USA
Near Mena, Arkansas, dark triangular object in night sky with 3 lights
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-02-08
- Where
- Mena, AR, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.586, -94.240 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mena-ar-2018-a6c07a
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
February 2018 was a busy month for Mena, AR: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Mena, AR.
- This case is one of 40 Arkansas reports filed in 2018.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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