UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Springfield, IL, USA

We were sitting outside when one of the witnesses said look at that flashing light over there.(we were facing south) We all thought it

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-04
Where
Springfield, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.802, -89.644 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-springfield-il-2012-137a04
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Springfield, IL reports filed in July 2012.

In context

  • Springfield, IL shows up 54 times across the archive.
  • 270 reports came from Illinois in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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