Sphere over Chico, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A bright glowing blue sphere shaped object with a firey tail falling to the earth.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2003-02-13 → 2003-03-02
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October 18, 2023 · 7:55 AM · LIGHT
Chico, CA
Same as above: object appeared as l turned my head to the SE. Bright light at approx 15 degrees shot towards the SE horizon and disappeared in less than a second
August 1, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CYLINDER
Chico, CA
Was scanning night sky hoping to take videos of meteors using Nikon D500/500mm telephoto lens. Observed bright object. With my finger on video button, I could only capture about 0.5 seconds of the object that was travelling at very high speed (velocity). Have observed the International Space Station (ISS) a number of times, even directly overhead; this object was not the ISS. The speed of this object was impressive. Subsequently, I edited the video from 16 MB to reduce the file size. I have attached the shortened portion of the video which is included in a powerpoint slide file. The original video data shows the video speed to be 30 frames per second. I used some very basic image filters on enlarged images of the object to get a better sense of the object profile. Frame 6 of the PPT slide file gives what appears to be the profile of the object. I am an amateur photographer and environmental scientist; just being curious about what I observed.
March 10, 2023 · 3:15 PM · SPHERE
Chico, CA
I heard what sounded like a jet flying overhead. Looked up and did not see a jet. Little flying objects caught my eye. At first glance I suspected migrating birds. Then when I noticed how erratic the movements were I knew they were not birds. I pulled out my phone to see if I could record them on video and hopefully be able to see what they were. I was able to get about a minute long video. There are little things flying high in the sky. I lost sight of them behind a cloud. A few minutes later a plane flew overhead. I took a video of that plane flying by with the same zoom that I did the flying craft for comparison. You can clearly see the second video is a plane. But the first video I do not know what is flying about. I took some still images from the video as well to try and identify the crafts. I still have no idea what they are.
December 24, 2022 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Chico, CA
I observed two different orange balls at low altitude, below 5000 ft with the naked eye and a pair of binoculars at approximately 10:30 p.m. Pacific time December 24th, 2022 from an apartment in west Chico California. The two orange balls were in an area about 10 to 20 miles east of the city of Chico. I was unable to distinguish if the balls were a fire like substance or a artificial light. Both of the orange balls appeared at different intervals approximately 3 to 4 minutes apart from one another. I immediately checked the flight tracker after witnessing the aerial phenomenon and was able to locate only one flight in the area at the time and observed the airplane with a pair of binoculars north west of where I viewed the two orange ball phenomenons. The two orange balls went dark after a few minutes in the sky randomly. The two orange balls did not appear to be meteors as they were traveling far too slow to be a meteor. The flight data from the flight tracker website showed the airline at approximately 10,000 ft which is consistent with what I personally viewed after viewing the phenomenon. The pilot flying the airline may have witnessed the phenomenon as well. The flight was headed southbound from Seatac airport to the Sacramento airport. I am unsure if the phenomenon was extra terrestrial in nature. This phenomenon was something that I have never witnessed before in my life and I felt compelled to report my findings to you. Please follow up with me if you have any questions.
September 14, 2022 · 8:09 PM · SPHERE
Chico, CA
The orb was moving slowly while ejecting other orbs that were barely visible. At one point the sphere jumps closer to me which you can see on the video to see the elections you have to zoom and look carefully this is third time I've seen orbs/spheres twice in the area I am now describing and once at home.
August 20, 2022 · 3:45 AM · CHANGING
Chico, CA
I was recording the object for what I thought was 4 hrs it kept changing shapes and colors from sphere to cube to star burst pattern like a triangle without the bottom sealed. The object would flash brightly and I could see other objects shooting away from it and flashing either bright white or red and moving in different areas of the sky while filming I saw a light illuminate the semi in front of me i also saw a red orb and in the video you can see it veer away from camera view and also it was sneaking up on me from behind i saw its reflection on the semis chrome passenger side mirror i zoomed in on the photo i captured from my video and i can see a small humanoid being in the sphere you can see it in the zoomed in photo. I opened my eyes at about 945am had no recollection of laying down I was fully dressed I remembered what I saw and checked my phone I don't understand why my videos are all only 2 mins long when I thought I sat the whole time recording I have headaches and have weird vision problems and my trucks right side marker lights all blew out its the same side the orb was in. i used star finder apps and satellite tracker and no stars satellites or planes where in that part of the sky.