Springfield, IL, USA
Object was hovering just below the clouds for about two seconds. Then the object just shot up in the air. Object was white, but looked
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-13
- Where
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 39.802, -89.644 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-springfield-il-2008-def2d9
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, IL shows up 54 times across the archive.
- 167 reports came from Illinois in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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