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