CaseRectangle1979
Chico, CA, USA
A huge solid black mass, silently glided directly over us from the NNE going SSW then did a perfect 90 degree turn directly over us and
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-07-01
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 4 - 7 minutes
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-chico-ca-1979-44a5c6
In context
- This is one of 62 reports logged in Chico, CA.
- This case is one of 42 California reports filed in 1979.
- Rectangle craft made up 2.3% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% 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.