Chico, CA, USA
Triangle shaped formation of lights slowed and stopped, then changed direction and flew off.
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 (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-28
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4 min
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-chico-ca-2010-e81612
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
- This is one of 62 reports logged in Chico, CA.
- This case is one of 605 California reports filed in 2010.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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