UFOMYST
CaseCircle2007

Springfield, IL, USA

Ball of light flicks out, reappears and explods into many balls of light that form a circle in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-11-05
Where
Springfield, IL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 Sec
Geo
39.802, -89.644 · exact
Slug
circle-over-springfield-il-2007-c4b99f
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Springfield, IL has 54 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 181 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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