UFOMYST
CaseCigar2012

Springfield, MA, USA

For the past month on a daily basis I have seen what appear to be stars coasting across the night sky. The height or level of flight ap

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-23
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-springfield-ma-2012-7653b7
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

  • One of 47 documented reports from Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 161 sightings in 2012.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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