NUFORC Sighting 20569

Occurred: 2001-11-18 03:00 Local
Reported: 2001-11-26 09:39 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Chico, CA, USA

Shape: Triangle

Huge slow flying triangular object blocking out sky during meteor shower on california's I-5 outside chico.

I stopped to watch meteor shower at a rest stop on I-5 just outside of chico california. When I went between two big trucks to block out some bothersome lights I saw out of the corner of my eye what looked at first like several meteors traveling together. When I looked in that direction I did not see any meteors. As I started to look in another direction I noticed something moving across the sky blocking out the stars. That was how I determined the shape. It was triangular, very large, moving slowly in an easterly direction. There were no lights and no noise. It was hard to judge the size of the object but I estimate that if it was flying low (as in 2 or 3 thousand feet it would have been the size of at least a football field. It disapeared behind the truck trailer and I was unable to find it again when I moved around to the other side of the truck.

Posted 2001-12-05