CaseOval2007

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
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…

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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