CaseUnknown2010

Chico, CA, USA

different shaped craft seen nightly from my front porch>more than 1 ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling stars, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-10-01
Where
Chico, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
daily
Geo
39.728, -121.837 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-chico-ca-2010-330ee7
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

  • Chico, CA shows up 62 times across the archive.
  • 605 reports came from California in 2010.

Report

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