Cross over Fayetteville, AR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
silent dark object in the shape of a cross seen in Fayetteville, AR moving south.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2000-10-18 → 2000-11-04
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October 13, 2022 · 11:20 PM · FORMATION
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March 2, 2021 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Fayetteville, AR
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August 25, 2020 · 9:00 PM · DIAMOND
Fayetteville, AR
I was sitting out on my back porch when some lights in the sky caught my attention, I looked up and saw 4 very bright lights….the only way to explain is to think about the flash going off on a camera and when the flash is at its brightest is what these 4 lights looked like. As I was watching them fly in a perfect diamond formation one of the lights started to flash, although it was not the light itself flashing but it flashed a light on the right side (3 really quick flashes) then the lights flashed on the front(again 3 really quick flashes) 3 flashes on the left side then finally 3 flashes on the back. As that light finished its flashes the other 3 did the exact same flash pattern. As these lights began to move out of sight I saw a fifth light that just appeared out in front of the other 4 and began flashing its lights in the exact same pattern.
August 25, 2020 · 7:15 PM · OTHER
Fayetteville, AR
I was on the phone with a friend, who is a city police officer. We live in the same neighborhood and he was driving home while we spoke. I was on my back porch and I have a very clear view of the sky. I was facing east. The sky was perfectly clear, with only very very small cloud near the moon to my NE. While it was not fully dark yet, I could see a lot of stars beginning to shine. I noticed a few stars rapidly blinking, and then realized it was a very large cluster of very fast blinking “stars”. They were in a horizontal swath. I called my friend’s attention to it, and he also saw it. Over the course of about 3-4 minutes, (though it may have been less), this cluster collectively moved slowly across the sky to the north. It stayed at roughly the same altitude and I could not determine how far away it was. I did see the entire cluster move behind the two-story roof of the neighbor behind me. I tried to determine if there was a pattern to the blinking, but it ! was too fast for me to make a determination of any kind of pattern. Some of the lights were brighter and bigger than the others but the blinking tempo was the same. The cluster maintained the same speed all the way across the sky until it was out of sight. It was a very large number of blinking objects and they were clearly traveling together without any kind of spreading out or dispersion. All lights were white. Police officer also could not find an explanation.