CaseCigar2010
Springfield, MA, USA
Large cigar craft traveling at high speed and low altitude.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-11-02
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- Under 10 seconds
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-springfield-ma-2010-bdaca5
Wave
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, MA has 47 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 107 reports from Massachusetts.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.