Springfield, NJ, USA
Glowing light orb/disk behind cloud: light oval shape every 9 - 10 seconds would appear
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-07-03
- Where
- Springfield, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 22:10
- Geo
- 40.705, -74.317 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-springfield-nj-2007-d733ef
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, NJ shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 69 reports came from New Jersey in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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