UFOMYST
CaseOther2013

Springfield, IL, USA

I saw one lightbulb shaped craft extremely up close and several other red orbs.

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-04
Where
Springfield, IL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
39.802, -89.644 · exact
Slug
other-over-springfield-il-2013-01aa45
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, IL in July 2013 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Springfield, IL has 54 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 173 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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