UFOMYST
CaseOval2004

Springfield, SC, USA

amazing colors, not an airplane something totally different

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-23
Where
Springfield, SC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 min
Geo
33.497, -81.279 · exact
Slug
oval-over-springfield-sc-2004-f2db4c
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 →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Springfield, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 47 sightings in 2004.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

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.