UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Springfield, MA, USA

At least 40 orange-red lights moving westerly to the north,floating in a linear fashion, then disappearing.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-07-06
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
circle-over-springfield-ma-2013-fa6e4e
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Springfield, MA in July 2013 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Springfield, MA has 47 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 196 reports from Massachusetts.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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