Fort Smith, AR, USA
6 circular objects seen over Ft. Smith @ 22:30 on April 26, 2005. Lights rotated ((NUFORC Note: Possibly advertising lights?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-04-26
- Where
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-fort-smith-ar-2005-8a2ba5
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 has 44 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 37 reports from Arkansas.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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