UFOMYST
CaseCircle2005

Springfield, MA, USA

We noticed it had gotten smaller out of nowhere, but was still at the same distance.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-09
Where
Springfield, MA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 min or less
Geo
42.101, -72.590 · exact
Slug
circle-over-springfield-ma-2005-ff2d6c
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 47 documented reports from Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Massachusetts logged 61 sightings in 2005.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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