Springfield, IL, USA
A light appeared out of no where at night during a drive-in movie. Went straight a little then curved dramatically, ~90 degrees.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-10
- Where
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- Short
- Geo
- 39.802, -89.644 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-springfield-il-2015-84a31b
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 54 documented reports from Springfield, IL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Illinois logged 182 sightings in 2015.
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.