UFOMYST
CaseCigar2017

Springfield, IL, USA

Rural road outside of Springfield w/ my daughter and in the sky was a very low flying slow moving cigar shaped obj.((anonymous report))

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-01
Where
Springfield, IL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
39.802, -89.644 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-springfield-il-2017-e9fcca
Wave

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  • 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

  • Springfield, IL has 54 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 93 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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