Ft. Smith, AR, USA
Clarification of timing of Ft. Smith, AR sighting, circa 1966/1967 (with additional sighting details)
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-01-15
- Where
- Ft. Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-ft-smith-ar-1966-034138
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Ft. Smith, AR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arkansas logged 3 sightings in 1966.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.