Fort Smith, AR, USA
In the directly Eastern Sky there were a cluster of red/orange orbs in various diamond/triangle formation. They would stay suspended i
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-31
- Where
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 8-12 minutes
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-fort-smith-ar-2018-6d1997
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
- Fort Smith, AR shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 40 reports came from Arkansas in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
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.