Chico, CA, USA
I noticed a blue, smoking fireball fall from the sky. It had a smoke trail behind it. It disapeared befor it hit the ground.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-12-11
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chico-ca-2007-8465a8
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.
- 587 reports came from California in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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