UFOMYST
CaseFormation2013

Springfield, IL, USA

Strange orange lights reported over Springfield, Illinois.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-13
Where
Springfield, IL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
unknown
Geo
39.802, -89.644 · exact
Slug
formation-over-springfield-il-2013-9d70e8
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

July 2013 was a busy month for Springfield, IL: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 54 reports logged in Springfield, IL.
  • This case is one of 173 Illinois reports filed in 2013.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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