CaseCircle2008

El Dorado, AR, USA

We are not sure is was a craft or a meteor, falling star, or whatever. It seemed to be about tree top level and traveled so rapidly th

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-20
Where
El Dorado, AR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
33.208, -92.666 · exact
Slug
circle-over-el-dorado-ar-2008-986feb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from El Dorado, AR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arkansas logged 40 sightings in 2008.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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