UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Chico, CA, USA

Orange star-like ball of light, erratic motion, no noise.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-01-12
Where
Chico, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 min
Geo
39.728, -121.837 · exact
Slug
light-over-chico-ca-2005-662904
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 62 reports logged in Chico, CA.
  • This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.