AR, USA
Burning ball with tail,like a comet, turning from brite white then blue to brite green
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-14
- Where
- AR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-ar-2012-6271b3
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
- Arkansas logged 58 sightings in 2012.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
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.