CaseChevron2015

Oroville, CA, USA

Seen green beam of light at a 45° blow into a chevron sign looking light. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 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
2015-11-07
Where
Oroville, CA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.514, -121.558 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-oroville-ca-2015-a383c3
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

  • One of 25 documented reports from Oroville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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