Springfield, MA, USA
1 large light center, 3 lights on either side 1 additional light off to right side, width of 5 c-5 aircrafts side by side.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-08
- Where
- Springfield, MA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.101, -72.590 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-springfield-ma-2008-9f8a1c
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
- One of 47 documented reports from Springfield, MA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Massachusetts logged 75 sightings in 2008.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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