Light over Bismarck, AR
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The report, as filed
String of lights ad no cell signal. Phone was scrambled wouldn't work at all. When the lights disappeared my phone worked fine. I called the wife to see if she saw anything too but she couldn't see the lights. It was right over me while I was fishing on the lake a little after 4 am. I was also alone, normally I am not but was this morning. The object was a string of bright lights but the string was the length of a football field. It really scared me. The sky was very dark bc expecting rain today. They were white lights. I also attempted to take a photo but my cellphone wouldn't do anything at all. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176441). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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