Chico, CA, USA
North Chico! Bright white cone shaped lights over Richardson Springs Rd.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-18
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-chico-ca-2015-23ca69
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
- Chico, CA shows up 62 times across the archive.
- 814 reports came from California in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Report
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