CaseOther2017

Chico, CA, USA

we (friend and I) experienced a 45 minute time loss. We left bed bath and beyond store at 6:00pm. It was new years eve and the employee

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-31
Where
Chico, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
39.728, -121.837 · exact
Slug
other-over-chico-ca-2017-d0d837
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.
  • 594 reports came from California in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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