CaseUnknown2004

Somers, NY, USA

There were four hovering starlike objects that formed a diamond shape in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible celestial bodies?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-10-17
Where
Somers, NY, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 hour
Geo
41.328, -73.686 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-somers-ny-2004-b7f949
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

  • Somers, NY has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 183 reports from New York.

Report

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