CaseUnknown1996
Fort Smith, AR, USA
Man taking out trash, sees 3 greenish-yellow balls of light dip down out of clouds, hover, go back up. Many other obervers, reports.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-01-03
- Where
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 35.386, -94.399 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fort-smith-ar-1996-a4aae4
In context
- Fort Smith, AR shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Arkansas in 1996.
Report
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