Chico, CA, USA
After going on the back porch for a smoke, what I saw was unbeliveable, we moved to the parking lot for a better onobstructed view.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1740s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-18
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- ~29 minutes
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-chico-ca-2014-019208
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Chico, CA reports filed in April 2014.
In context
- Chico, CA shows up 62 times across the archive.
- 869 reports came from California in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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