Chico, CA, USA
The object was bright, because it is filmed in infa red. I could not see any lights, only brightness indicating heat.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-29
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chico-ca-2017-bd9e94
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.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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