CaseTriangle2004

Fort Smith, AR, USA

Strange Very Large Trianglar Craft Floating Across the Late Evening Sky Over Fort Smith, Arkansas 09/07/04

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-09-07
Where
Fort Smith, AR, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2 Minutes
Geo
35.386, -94.399 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-fort-smith-ar-2004-7fd456
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

  • Fort Smith, AR shows up 44 times across the archive.
  • 34 reports came from Arkansas in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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