CaseOther1979
Chico (Hwy 70 at 179 junction), CA, USA
A large slow moving craft was observed, first at a distance as a bright light, then passing directly overhead.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-07-01
- Where
- Chico (Hwy 70 at 179 junction), CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-chico-hwy-70-at-179-junction-ca-1979-5ee733
In context
- Chico (Hwy 70 at 179 junction), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from California in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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