CaseCircle1997

Hot Springs, AR, USA

Three objects that turned into four objects.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-28
Where
Hot Springs, AR, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 min
Geo
34.504, -93.055 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hot-springs-ar-1997-ee3342
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 25 reports logged in Hot Springs, AR.
  • This case is one of 11 Arkansas reports filed in 1997.
  • Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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