CaseTeardrop2006
Oroville, CA, USA
Object seen in Kelly Ridge
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-24
- Where
- Oroville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 39.514, -121.558 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-oroville-ca-2006-5b0f32
Wave
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
- Oroville, CA has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 561 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
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.