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)
El Salvador · El Salvador
A witness in El Salvador reported a light initially resembling a satellite that made right-angle turns, zigzagged across the sky, and then shot away rapidly, during a six-minute sighting in July 1972.
Federal Way · WA, USA
A witness in Federal Way, Washington reported a small, softball-sized, silver, glass-like spherical object during a brief five-second sighting in July 1972.
Williamsport · PA, USA
fireball, ( meteor ? )
Stoke-on-Trent (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness in Stoke-on-Trent, England reported a bright light darting around a small patch of sky with very precise movements, during a thirty-minute sighting in July 1972.
Wayland · MA, USA
A witness in Wayland, Massachusetts reported brilliant lights about 100 feet directly overhead on a silent night, during a ten-to-twelve-minute sighting in July 1972.
Sinop (Turkey) · Turkey
This used to be a U. S. Army base. We used to watch these things nightly. All nightime workers used to watch these as a matter of routi
West Pittson · PA, USA
we are not alone. ((NUFORC Note: We cannot be certain whether this report is intended as a hoax, or not. PD))
Mojave (vicinity) · CA, USA
Craft must have been setting on ground when we arrived. We were on vacation and were headed home from Northern California. We had pulle
Gautier · MS, USA
Witnesses in Gautier, Mississippi reported two star-like objects slowly moving through the sky, stopping, starting, making right-angle turns, and shining a light, over about three hours in June 1972.
Oxford · MI, USA
A witness in Oxford, Michigan recalled, from childhood in 1972, seeing lights in the woods and describing an encounter with an unidentified figure, over a period of several hours.
Holden · ME, USA
((HOAX??)) entity can be described as a "gray" peering into bedroom window. ((anonymous report))
Bath (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness in Bath, England reported lights that vanished abruptly without fading, slowing, or making sound, recurring at the same location over three consecutive nights in June 1972.
Two Egg Mariana · FL, USA
A witness in the Two Egg/Marianna area of Florida reported a circular object described as unlike any known aircraft, during a sighting in June 1972.
Burnsville · NC, USA
I remember I was 9 years old and had the habit of getting up very early in the morning before anyone else. On this particular morning I
Molong (Australia) · Australia
shiny, like floro light on in sunlight, 40'long by 20'high craft, 3 tall 8' men, same glow as ship. 1 walking around 2 ea. side of ship
Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico) · Puerto Rico
It was when I was 6 years old and I remember like it was yesterday. I was at home with my mother and my 5 yo brother. I know I was 6 yo
BondeCroft · TN, USA
Myself and two other children ages four where driven by one female to a nearby place taken inside a house where aliens implanted a devi
Nevada Desert · NV, USA
Biggest Ship Ever
Avery Island · LA, USA
In the early summer or late Spring of 1972 when my oldest son was 5 1/2 and my youngest son was 15 months old we went to a friend's gra
Farmers Branch · TX, USA
A witness in Farmers Branch, Texas reported an orange, spherical object roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle during a five-minute sighting in June 1972.
Austin · TX, USA
A witness in Austin, Texas reported lights traveling across the sky at high speed, one of which stopped and grew brighter, during a five-minute sighting in June 1972.
Shelter Cove · CA, USA
Light overe ocean traveled at low speed until directly overhead at200 to 400 ft. classic saucer with dome on top appeared cast of gold
Monterey · CA, USA
A witness in Monterey, California reported a silent, unidentified object flying toward the Pacific Ocean shoreline during a one-minute sighting in June 1972.
Stratford · WI, USA
Cigar shaped, moved slowly.
Johannesburg (South Africa) · South Africa
Witnesses in Johannesburg, South Africa reported a pulsing orange light over a nearby lake during a ten-minute sighting in June 1972.