Springfield, IL, USA
Not the first time the first was one flew over three mins. later 4 flew over in a row tonites started to fly over and just dissapered t
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-10-25
- Where
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.802, -89.644 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-springfield-il-2014-8c6044
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
- This is one of 54 reports logged in Springfield, IL.
- This case is one of 173 Illinois reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.