Springfield, OR, USA
A stationary red circle moves down straight in sky, emits light, stops briefly and moves in a perfect straight line to its left.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-21
- Where
- Springfield, OR, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- About 1 minute
- Geo
- 44.046, -123.022 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-springfield-or-2021-b7fbfe
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
- Springfield, OR has 59 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 93 reports from Oregon.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.