CaseLight1998
Fort Smith (about 20 miles SW), AR, USA
My instructor pilot and I were coming back from Bentonville AR I had just taken my instrument check ride. We had somehow lost all of th
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-23
- Where
- Fort Smith (about 20 miles SW), AR, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fort-smith-about-20-miles-sw-ar-1998-b0ae51
In context
- Fort Smith (about 20 miles SW), AR shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Arkansas in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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