CaseFireball1999
Chico, CA, USA
Four glowing objects slowly moving across the night sky, leaving a short trail.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-01
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds?
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chico-ca-1999-0811f4
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Chico, CA in September 1999 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chico, CA has 62 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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