UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Springfield, MA, USA

I saw the craft a second time but got better video because I had my phone nearby. It lasted about 5 minutes It cam from sw and moved to

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-01
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-springfield-ma-2020-bd2dc8
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 47 reports logged in Springfield, MA.
  • This case is one of 138 Massachusetts reports filed in 2020.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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