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Arkansas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,285 UFO sighting reports in Arkansas to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (261 reports, 20.31% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (139 reports, 10.82% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (204 reports, 15.88% of total).
- 03/09/00 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (9 reports, 0.70% of total).
- 2020 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (95 reports, 7.39% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (575 reports, 44.75% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Arkansas
These Arkansas UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Large silent hyperbolic shaped object seen flying overhead while soaking in hot tub along with other objects My wife and I had just started soaking in our hot tub when we started noticing some strange flashing lights on a craft that seemed to be flying in an unusual pattern. It seemed to have started with a bright white light and seemed to climb. It would flash every five seconds or so and the light grew dimmer as it appeared to ascend further away from us.
Several minutes later we saw a shooting star that had the same light consistency. Shortly after that we saw another object in the same area that had a similar light as the first object. First if flashed bright, flashed again less bright but almost remained lit as the light faded off it this time.
It was too slow this time to be a shooting star and we've never seen one flash more than once either. These last two objects where heading south. Almost as soon as the third objects lights shut off I saw what appeared to be a cloud coming our direction from the south.
I quickly pointed it out to my wife and she immediately saw it too. It moved silently and came over us as we where now standing in our hot tub watching it hover over our house heading north. It was a very large object.
Hard to say how high it was. Maybe 2000-3000 feet above us. It was maybe 200-300 feet across and was parabolic or hyperbolic in shape and it moved and looked like a cloud or a puff of smoke but was definitely a craft with no lights.
We saw it fly across the sky for around 20 seconds before flying too far to be seen in the night sky. I need to mention that there was not a cloud in the sky this evening and my wife and I have never seen anything like this before. There was also no moon visible this evening.
I almost couldn't discern it at first because it appeared as though it was cloaked. Had it not been for the other strange lights we may not have seen this object come through. Also might have not seen it had it not been for the city lights as it was heading into town.
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Equidistant solid lights heading for the head of Orion and disappearing Solid spheres of light all equidistant and like 12-15 of them on the same course and all disappeared right at orions head… no flashing just solid light… I am an engineer for a defense contractor and I usually don’t go in for shot like this.
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Immediately after watching Space X Dragon flew over us, an unknown curved shaped object flew the opposite way. No lights. No sounds.
Space X Dragon Capsule came from left to right from our view but immediately after it passed over us, a curved “ ( “ shaped object with no lights, no sound & no smoke, started to appear from the right to left moving pretty fast. (not faster than dragon though.) My Girlfriend was with me at the time but I was the one who caught it first.
I tried to record immediately since I recorded the Space Dragon Re-Entry but the object went behind our street light & we both lost sight of it. Whatever it was, we truly believed it was not an airplane ( airplanes were out that night too & we seen them easily ) no way it was birds, it has no lights although it was strange for us to be able to see it kind of glow somewhat but not really bright, but enough to see it & automatically assumed “ UFO or UAP “ It also happened right after the Re-Entry so coincidence? Maybe Aliens wanted to watch the Space X Dragon Re-Entry Too but who knows. I’ve seen plenty of objects that are unexplainable but this one was the most recent & clear sighting.
Happened just after 4:44am CST.
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UFO Came From North. I noticed this object from the North around 7:37 pm in PineBluff. It changed direction multiple times and seemed to ascend and descend.
Before it disappeared to the South the UFO got brighter.
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Crescent shape, open up, moving lights red and orange Was letting pets outside and saw the brightness beyond my pasture slightly above the wood line, direction west. Glowing yellow crescent, open up with red and orange lights that rotated. Stationary, then moved slowly south, then seemed to vanish west.
Clear sky. Vivid sighting of details of object.
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with 23 Starlink satellites.
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I have a video that corresponds to NUFORC Sighting 180141 At around 6:10 pm on Sunday, January 7, 2024 CST, I was taking a dusk walk under clear skies in suburban Little Rock. I noticed a peculiar sight emerging from trees at heading of approximately 270 degrees: a hazy white light moving steadily at a low angular velocity from the west to the south at a low elevation of perhaps 30 degrees at its maximum. There was no sound from the object.
What made the sighting peculiar was a ring of light that preceded the main orb-like light as it transited the southwestern sky. The sight was so unfamiliar it took me a second to gather my wits and make a video recording of it, which I will attach to the report. It nicely complements the video of NUFORC Sighting 180141.
The NUFORC Note on that sighting refers to SpaceX launching a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with 23 Starlink satellites; however, the heading of my sighting, starting around due west at 270 degrees, is not consistent with a Cape Canaveral launch. The heading to Cape Canaveral from Little Rock is 122°25'.
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Object moved right to left in sight line On routine patrol at Rector City limits and observed object in sky north west of my position. What drew my attention was the size in the sky. This is in the same area of our tiny municipal airport 7M8.
I could not see navigation lights or landing/takeoff lights nor could I make out any normal aircraft design features such as wings or rudders or rotors. I started photographing as object moved right to left to south west and was tracking horizontal to the horizon from my viewing point. It appeared to have a ball shape at one point.
When I took the last photo, I attempted to step out of patrol unit for a video but it was no longer visible. No sound that I can recall. I am 52 and a veteran.
I am employed as a part-time Patrolman with the Rector Police Department. I am an aviation enthusiast and know many configurations of aircraft and helo’s. I am not prone to jumping to conclusions or mistaking what I see.
I was on duty at time of observation.
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with 23 Starlink satellites.
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5 Lights Moving Rapidly and Changing Direction I was a pilot flying to Little Rock AR at 32,000ft. My first officer had told me earlier that he had been seeing strange “dancing” lights to the West on every night flight beginning at 9PM Eastern time. At about 11:45 Eastern time, we began seeing multiple lights due West at extreme altitudes.
They appeared to be tracking South at extreme speeds and altitudes in excess of 100,000ft. I estimated the speed to be somewhere beyond Mach 5.0, but it is difficult to estimate accurately given the unknown range.
Visibility was unlimited and I estimated the objects to be around 300 miles to the West. Two of the objects appeared to be following each other, greatly varying their speed and course. They appeared to be able to stop and change direction, sometimes abruptly switching from a Southerly track to a North Easterly track.
There were 5 objects in total, with up to 4 seen at one time. One of the objects was at a much higher altitude, or much closer range. They varied in brightness up to the point of being the brightest objects in the sky for brief periods.
This continued until we arrived in Little Rock. These objects are appearing with extreme regularity, beginning at 9PM Eastern, and are a widely discussed phenomenon on the radios as of the last few months.
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There was no real pattern in the movements other than being in 2’s. While driving north on I-167 in Cabot, Arkansas, I saw multiple lights flying around in the sky. So I started recording.
There was about 50 seconds prior to my video where nothing happened. Then it picked back up again and the lights started flashing and flying together. Usually in pairs of 2’s, however sometimes they would separate then meet each other again a couple seconds later.
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4 bright lights changing up coordinations They would travel in a cube then change up patterns and then traveled in a line. They was all bright lights. I’ve seen satellites and I know this couldn’t have been satellites or airplanes.
They was traveling fast like satellites. But much brighter and different speeds. Some would slow down when they would change up their order and shape that they would form together.
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I saw a yellow light. It blew a smoke ring as it left the area. I was in the Dollar Tree parking lot waiting for my kids to come to the vehicle and I noticed something out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look and saw a smoke ring blow off of the light-yellow orb light. By the time I got my camera up to video, the light had moved away but you can barely see it at the two sec mark traveling away in the video I took. It made no noise whatsoever.
You can hear the toddler in the vehicle saying something about fireworks. She thought it was fireworks, she saw it as well. She is only two but she saw it.
The light looked large and nearby, smoke ring looked very close not far away in the sky so it was either very big and far away or it was local. It was large when first spotted and moved away quickly after the smoke ring shot out.
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It was 8 bright lights in the sky There was 8 bright lights in the sky they hovered in one spot for an hour. They started going out 2 at a time every 30 minutes. I also have pictures of the objects.
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS.
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Light orb I thought it was a star until I saw slight motion and realized it was hovering over my neighborhood. I was sure it was a helicopter in a cloud but it didn’t move like a helicopter and there was no noise. I stood paralyzed because I couldn’t make sense out of it, I grabbed my phone and got one picture was trying to record it as I ran down my street following it, it was moving across the sky, not away from me.
It disappeared. I’ve lived here for 11 years and I’m familiar with the air traffic and I watch the stars at night from my back yard. Not a star, not a plane, not a helicopter, not a drone, not a balloon.
Ive never made a report.
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No visible wings, moving slow and odd sound I know this sounds crazy but something told me to go outside and look up. When I did, I saw the object moving steady through the sky. Faint kind of sound (like wind tunnel) followed it.
Has to be some type of drone or something. Rather large as it was high up. Just odd.
Figured something common since it was broad daylight and clearly visible. I’ve been seeing many moving solid lights at night (bright white) that are going fast and many times just disappear. My doorbell came has picked up weird light at night as well.
I’ve also seen a streak of bright light that seemed to flash/burst through the sky (extremely fast) then disappeared (like a hole opened in the sky). Been seeing things in Benton and hot springs area for about six months. That’s when I actually started viewing the sky.
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Methane emmissions could have created the light phenomenon. A homeless man is said to occupy that specific spot. Wednesday, Octobet 4th, 2024, approximately at around 11:15 pm, I was moving south on the trail.
I was going in the direction of Berry Hill Park. There was a tropical storm effecting the area, and it was a very dark night. I crossed the creek bridge by the sewer pond, and saw a cluster of pulsating white orbs moving at near surface level.
They moved with amd against one another, leaving a glow trail behind them, and also moved at random. They appeared to be anywhere from 100 yards to a half a mile , with a span of 100 yards they seemed to operate within, downhill, towords a low swampy area. I crept closer slowly to the wood line.
Two minutes of lights were observed, then I got to the tree line. No more lights were visible. Then I heard a loud nearby advance towords me, and visibility was 0%.
It chased me dien the trail. I turned to try communication, nothing bit sheer terror did I feel. I ride out as fast as I could to the park.
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Seen object like start but closer. And move very fast. Not only once twice 2nd time left orbit with flash then it was gone.
Object move very fast. Super fast. Then.
Move enough to make a flash then leave sky. I have to talk to someone explain more.
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roommates saw several lights in the sky, "dancing" and "zipping" around me and my 2 roomates were on our balcony, just gazing around the sky looking for the moon on a clear night, i came across multiple "lights" or white glowing orbs in the sky, i observed them "zipping" around almost like a mouse cursor on a computer? i told my roommates who also are seeing these 2 glowing orbs fly around in the sky, as we are watching them move in circles, stopping, accelerating, and we even seen a plane fly over, as the plane was flying over it was pretty high up i'd say, we could barely see the tail light flash of the plane, and the plane gets into the area of these "orbs" one maneuvers behind the tail light of the plane for a few moments, and proceeds to follow the plane, it then shoots off to the other side of the sky, almost like it was curious? i observed 2 "orbs" maneuver away from the airplane one in front of the plane that looked to "narrowly miss" the front of the plane as it took off extremely fast to get away from the planes course, another one flew towards it but then flew away as the 1st one maneuvered behind the tail light, we observed them for a short while after then we could no longer see them.
Arkansas UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 261 reported sightings | 20.31% of all reports |
Triangle | 145 reported sightings | 11.28% of all reports |
Circle | 134 reported sightings | 10.43% of all reports |
Unknown | 94 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
Other | 74 reported sightings | 5.76% of all reports |
Disk | 71 reported sightings | 5.53% of all reports |
Sphere | 57 reported sightings | 4.44% of all reports |
Fireball | 50 reported sightings | 3.89% of all reports |
Oval | 39 reported sightings | 3.04% of all reports |
Cigar | 37 reported sightings | 2.88% of all reports |
Formation | 33 reported sightings | 2.57% of all reports |
Flash | 28 reported sightings | 2.18% of all reports |
Cylinder | 28 reported sightings | 2.18% of all reports |
Changing | 28 reported sightings | 2.18% of all reports |
Chevron | 19 reported sightings | 1.48% of all reports |
Diamond | 16 reported sightings | 1.25% of all reports |
Rectangle | 14 reported sightings | 1.09% of all reports |
Orb | 12 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Teardrop | 9 reported sightings | 0.70% of all reports |
Egg | 7 reported sightings | 0.54% of all reports |
Cone | 5 reported sightings | 0.39% of all reports |
Cross | 4 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Star | 2 reported sightings | 0.16% of all reports |
Arkansas UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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October | 139 reported sightings | 10.82% of all reports |
July | 122 reported sightings | 9.49% of all reports |
April | 117 reported sightings | 9.11% of all reports |
September | 109 reported sightings | 8.48% of all reports |
June | 104 reported sightings | 8.09% of all reports |
January | 103 reported sightings | 8.02% of all reports |
August | 102 reported sightings | 7.94% of all reports |
December | 99 reported sightings | 7.70% of all reports |
November | 96 reported sightings | 7.47% of all reports |
May | 96 reported sightings | 7.47% of all reports |
March | 95 reported sightings | 7.39% of all reports |
February | 73 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Arkansas UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Wednesday | 204 reported sightings | 15.88% of all reports |
Thursday | 193 reported sightings | 15.02% of all reports |
Tuesday | 182 reported sightings | 14.16% of all reports |
Saturday | 175 reported sightings | 13.62% of all reports |
Sunday | 174 reported sightings | 13.54% of all reports |
Monday | 168 reported sightings | 13.07% of all reports |
Friday | 159 reported sightings | 12.37% of all reports |
Arkansas UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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03/09/00 | 9 reported sightings | 0.70% of all reports |
07/04/11 | 6 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
04/16/20 | 5 reported sightings | 0.39% of all reports |
01/31/22 | 5 reported sightings | 0.39% of all reports |
01/07/24 | 4 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Arkansas UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 575 reported sightings | 44.75% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 216 reported sightings | 16.81% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 200 reported sightings | 15.56% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 123 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 73 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 68 reported sightings | 5.29% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Arkansas
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Arkansas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Arkansas