Mena, AR, USA
1/1/12 at 12:01 a.m. It was round with a black center and a red circle around it Mena Arkansas
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-01
- Where
- Mena, AR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 1/2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.586, -94.240 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mena-ar-2012-f24ac7
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…
In context
- Mena, AR shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from Arkansas in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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