Chico, CA, USA
((1st report from same witness)) 9 Very brightly lit (red and yellow) saucer shaped crafts. Total time about 18 minutes
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1080s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-18
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- ~18 minutes
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chico-ca-2014-584831
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…
Local cluster
Chico, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of April 2014.
In context
- One of 62 documented reports from Chico, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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