West Memphis, AR, USA
Small, bronze collected craft. Stopped on a dime and reversed direction. Moving fast.
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 (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-08
- Where
- West Memphis, AR, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.146, -90.185 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-west-memphis-ar-2020-612edb
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
- West Memphis, AR has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 92 reports from Arkansas.
- The 2020s skewed 3.5% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.