Circle over Hot Springs, AR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving on the bypass from Central to Higdin Ferry and a White plastic bag looking object moved from the left to the right and then staying in one place past Arvest Bank a few minutes and then disappeared. Tried to photo with IPhone 13 but didn’t show up in photos.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177130). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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October 30, 2023 · 7:51 PM · LIGHT
Hot Springs, AR
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. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
August 13, 2022 · 2:48 PM · CHANGING
Hot Springs, AR
Sitting on the back porch 2:48 pm on 8/13/2022 looking SE over a valley just north of Gulpha Gorge Hot Springs National Park. I saw a reflective object out of the corner of my eye from the north descend down out then slightly correct it's flight path moving from north to SE across a mountain ridge. I then was able to get my cell phone out and start recording the object move across the mountain ridge, it then started a descent into the valley below. The object at first was pronounced spherical reflective then would morph into a black looking square. Never any bright lights, more or less like reflecting the sun light back. As it moved into the valley it began to lose it's shape and became more a reflective light atop the trees almost as if it was able to conceal it's shape once looking at the object from above. We then lost the object as it moved into the valley below and was obstructed by the trees. It was moving towards the town of Hot Springs. Balloon?
April 25, 2021 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Hot Springs, AR
We saw what looked like a big triangle shaped mirror and I'm assuming you could only see it when the light was shining on it right because it seemed to disappear for a few seconds then come back but it stayed in the same place it looked really high up higher than a plane but looked really large maybe at that height probably miles wide there was also a helicopter flying around at the time we saw it.
August 21, 2019 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Hot Springs, AR
It was sometime early after midnight I had just returned home from making a late night milk run for my infant son. As I pull up to my driveway, outside of the driver side window, I see what I thought was the moon with a very bright orange tent to it so I went to grab my Phone so I could take a picture that’s when I noticed that this object was not only not the moon, but that there were two of them and they were moving. I got out of my car and immediately turned my video recorder on. They gave absolutely no sound whatsoever and couldn’t have been moving faster than 25 to 35 miles an hour. If I had to guess I would say they were about 3000 feet off the ground. The one in the front eventually lined up with the street that I was on and stopped. The other one followed behind it a little slower and sort of lined up next to it. It hesitated for a moment but then flew under the other craft and stopped for a moment making a Vertical line. This only lasted for about 10 ! seconds before the bottom craft continued to make what would end up being a half circle and lined up again on the other side of the craft that was stationary. Both crafts eventually flew off in the distance no faster than they had moved when I first laid eyes on them. I was fortunate enough to be able to record the incident on my cell phone. The footage is a little bit shaky as I am struggling to process what I’m seeing as it’s happening. These craft look to be orb shaped however it almost looks as though there was a slight tail coming off of them. I don’t know how to describe it better than that. Overall the craft were red but in the center there was more of a brighter orange type glow so the red coloring would’ve been more of an afterglow. No sound was emitted from these objects during the entire duration. In the video the only sound you hear is of me talking my cats who honestly sound a little concerned given how they were reacting my car running in the background and crickets. I don’t know what this was but I do not believe that it was something that was man-made. If it is they did a damn good job of convincing me otherwise.
July 3, 2017 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Hot Springs, AR
Me and my boyfriend, went to Hot Springs, Arkansas, to watch the firework show after going home later that night, looking at the video that we had recorded, we noticed there was some strange objects in our videos. The objects were on both our phones. They were reddish looking in color, not sure how many maybe four or more and moving very fast.
November 12, 2015 · 7:30 AM · OVAL
Hot Springs, AR
I was on my way home, heading west, and something caught my eye to the south and when I looked I thought,"Hey a Plane is going to land at the airport or it had just taken off." It was about a mile or two away. I then took several looks at it trying to figure out what type of aircraft it was but it was really shiny, like chrome and a kind of rounded shape. Hard to describe since it wasn't close. After a few looks, it just disappeared. I am not really sure if it was a "UFO" or one of our aircraft. I looked for it several times, but couldn't find it again. Remember I was driving and was also trying to stay on the road. There were other aircraft in the air that I saw and they left vapor trails and were very far off.. Hope someone else seen this too..