Chico, CA, USA
Light Formation (with faint outline of oblong craft in between lights) in night sky
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-23
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-chico-ca-2020-98c3c7
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
- Chico, CA has 62 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
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.