UFO Sightings in the 1970s
3,165 UFO sightings reported during the 1970s, peaking in 1978 (441 reports); most often described as disk.
- Total sightings
- 3,165
- Span
- 1970–1979
- Peak year
- 1978 (441 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Disk
1970–1979 · peak 1978 (441 reports)
San Clemente · CA, USA
An anonymous witness in San Clemente, California reported noticing unusual, cat-like eyes on a figure encountered during a roughly one-minute event in February 1973.
Honolulu · HI, USA
I was standing on the shore looking out towards the water when I saw a blue sphere coming toward the shore . It was at about a 45 degr
Port Sulphur · LA, USA
Drag Racing UFO's
Roanoke · VA, USA
A witness in Roanoke, Virginia reported a silver, silent, spherical object during a ninety-second sighting in February 1973.
Fort Rucker · AL, USA
A witness at Fort Rucker, Alabama reported a red light that appeared to pass directly through their aircraft cockpit, during a ten-second sighting in February 1973.
Moundville · AL, USA
A witness in Moundville, Alabama reported a low-flying, cigar-shaped object following a heavy snowstorm, during a ninety-second sighting in February 1973.
Houston · TX, USA
A witness in Houston, Texas reported a rectangular object during a two-minute sighting in February 1973, and the account described skin burns and declining health afterward among those present.
Port Sulphur · LA, USA
Witnesses in Port Sulphur, Louisiana reported two silver, circular objects glowing blue around their edges and leaving a blue flame trail, during a four-second sighting in February 1973.
Lake Okeechoobee · FL, USA
2 WHAT looked LIKE stars STARTED to MAKE right AND LEFT ANGLES and GO real FAST seemed that they went around the earth and then stopped
Chattanooga · TN, USA
3 objects in a tri-angle formation also in stationary mode for about 20 to 30 sec. Then dispersed in different directions in less than
Japan · Japan
I was stationed at Yokota AFB and and somewhere in the first couple days of the new year we came to catch a C-5 and two 141s when they
Muscle Shoals · AL, USA
A witness in Muscle Shoals, Alabama reported a glowing orange, featureless oval object roughly the outline of a car, moving slowly across the sky before vanishing behind clouds, January 1973.
Barrigada (Marianas Islands/Guam) · Guam
Cigar-shaped metalic craft with rotating redish and blue-green lights sighted during early morning hours while viewing stars with a new
Farmington (SE of · deserted area, Hwy 44), NM, USA
A large bright light apeared seemingly from nowhere.It followed my 18 wheeler for 1-2 min. then disapeared as quickly. It wasn't a pr.
Scranton · PA, USA
A witness in Scranton, Pennsylvania reported a rectangular object moving at very high speed and making no noise, during a ten-second sighting in January 1973.
Glendora · CA, USA
An illuminated Saucer hovers over my back patio. The Object rises beyond a neighboring house to the South. After hovering for five min'
Townsville (Australia) · Australia
A mother and son in Townsville, Australia reported seeing cigar-shaped objects in the night sky in 1973, shortly after a new comet had been sighted.
Chattanooga · TN, USA
A witness in Chattanooga, Tennessee reported blue circular objects with one red circle floating in formation at an estimated altitude of 20,000 to 50,000 feet, over about an hour, December 1972.
Eddington · ME, USA
A witness in Eddington, Maine reported a black, circular object dimly lit around its perimeter that appeared able to stop dead in the air, during a one-minute sighting in December 1972.
Osowatomie · KS, USA
In 1972 my ex-husband and I were returning from Christmas shopping. I noticed an object following us and coming closer to our car. When
Ireland (not sure which town) · Ireland
A witness in Ireland reported a light descending from the sky, joined by two smaller lights, before all three ascended together, during a roughly five-minute sighting in December 1972.
Port Elizabeth (South Africa) · South Africa
WE WERE CAMPING OUT NEAR SARDINA BAY 65 MILES FROM P.E. IN A PARTY OF ABOUT 12 OTHERS, MY DAD NEEEDED SOME GEAR FROM HOME I WENT WITH
Gravesend (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness in Gravesend, England reported three lights on a triangular object moving horizontally for about a quarter to half mile before shooting upward at high speed, in December 1972.
Colorado Springs · CO, USA
A witness outside Colorado Springs, Colorado reported a disk-shaped object during a two-minute sighting on Christmas Eve, 1972.
? · AL, USA
ufo over mountians,two men went missing