CaseFlash1998
Gridley (10 miles N of, and 20 miles SE Chico), CA, USA
Brief period of light flashed in my car window about 1/4 mile to right and problably no further than 2 to 3 miles in front.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-16
- Where
- Gridley (10 miles N of, and 20 miles SE Chico), CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 to 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.364, -121.694 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-gridley-10-miles-n-of-and-20-miles-se-chico-ca-1998-61213b
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Gridley (10 miles N of, and 20 miles SE Chico), CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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