Springfield, IL, USA
Flickering colored lights appear in the sky at the about the same time each night for ~ 45 min. ((NUFORC Note: Celestial body? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-11-02
- Where
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 39.802, -89.644 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-springfield-il-2005-eb1cdf
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, IL shows up 54 times across the archive.
- 209 reports came from Illinois in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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