CaseCircle2014
Springfield, MA, USA
3 white lights circling in formations around 1 big white light.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-27
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-springfield-ma-2014-da6cc3
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 47 reports logged in Springfield, MA.
- This case is one of 201 Massachusetts reports filed in 2014.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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