CaseCircle1997

Bigelow, AR, USA

Film negative anomalies pertaining to photo related to March, 1997 report

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-24
Where
Bigelow, AR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
35.001, -92.630 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bigelow-ar-1997-904866
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Bigelow, AR shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 11 reports came from Arkansas in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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