CaseCigar2010

Springfield, MA, USA

Large cigar craft traveling at high speed and low altitude.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-11-02
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
Under 10 seconds
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-springfield-ma-2010-bdaca5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Springfield, MA has 47 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 107 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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