CaseTeardrop2012

Pocahontas, AR, USA

4 witnesses to an unexplained Ariel pursuit.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-02
Where
Pocahontas, AR, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
30+ mins.
Geo
36.261, -90.971 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-pocahontas-ar-2012-6c4331
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…

In context

  • Pocahontas, AR has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 58 reports from Arkansas.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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