UFOMYST
CaseOval2005

Fort Smith, AR, USA

Oval lighted object made no noise as it rapidly flew overhead in sky.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-12
Where
Fort Smith, AR, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
35.386, -94.399 · exact
Slug
oval-over-fort-smith-ar-2005-8ffab8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Fort Smith, AR shows up 44 times across the archive.
  • 37 reports came from Arkansas in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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