CaseCircle1996
Springfield, MA, USA
the object floted inplace, then circled the clouds at an increasing in speed. then speed off. It was red in color.
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-07-05
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30-40 sec
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-springfield-ma-1996-9764fa
In context
- Springfield, MA shows up 47 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Massachusetts in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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