CaseLight2020

Oroville, CA, USA

Looked like white feathers,in formation traveling across the sky. 500 ft in altitude , and 75 ft wide. (("Starlink" satellites??))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-15
Where
Oroville, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
39.514, -121.558 · exact
Slug
light-over-oroville-ca-2020-5c3b7d
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…

In context

  • One of 25 documented reports from Oroville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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