The answer to this question is difficult to determine, as several claims can be made. The farthest arrow shot ever was from Australia to England at 9,600 miles. George Pickering accomplished the feat in 1871. However, it is generally accepted that an arrow was shot by someone from Japan that went 3,860 feet into the sky in 1873. In 1926, a man named Thomas Alva Edison shot an arrow into the sky in Omaha, Nebraska, which was recorded as the farthest arrow shot ever. This record still stands today and has not been broken.