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)
Dallas · TX, USA
My father worked for NASA and he told me there are little people from outer space. He said that we can communicate with them by focusi
Sanford · FL, USA
UFO Sighting June/July 1972 I was leaving Sanford Florida heading to Orlando, Florida at 2 a.m. running normal speed of 45-50 mph when
Fort Stockton · TX, USA
A witness in Fort Stockton, Texas reported a barrel-shaped object moving slowly during a daytime sighting lasting about an hour in June 1972, with a possible follow-up search for the object.
Beachwood · OH, USA
i was a passenger in a vehicle and as i looked up in the sky ( it was a clear, bright summer day) i saw 3 or 4 metallic (bright) saucer
Tarpon Springs · FL, USA
A witness in Tarpon Springs, Florida reported nine colored, hovering spherical lights along with helicopters below them, observed near a power facility during an eight-minute sighting in June 1972.
Lenoir · NC, USA
APPROX. SUMMER 1972 AT A DRIVE INN WITH PARENTS AND BROTHERS AND SISTER.MY BROTHER KEPT SAYING HE SAW SOMETHING.AFTER LOOKING I SAW A D
Hutsonville · IL, USA
A witness near an electrical power plant in Hutsonville, Illinois reported a low-pitched humming noise and a series of bright lights at ground level, during a two-minute sighting in June 1972.
Conway · NC, USA
A witness in Conway, North Carolina reported a large, metallic disk-shaped object that landed in a field, after which vegetation reportedly failed to grow there, during a sighting in June 1972.
Greensboro · NC, USA
Fluorescent orange boomerang shapes.
Highway · KS, USA
This very real sighting took place in 1972. My ex husband and I were followed by a relatively small UFO which lower itself all the way
Osowatomie · KS, USA
THIS SIGHTING WAS REAL. THE SMALL CRAFT DESCENDED AND FOLLOWED OUR CAR. THE CRAFT WAS AT THE SAME ALTITUDE OF MY WINDOW ON THE PASANGER
Fort Collins · CO, USA
what we saw was real and the truth
New Mexico (rural · northern part of), NM, USA
A witness in rural northern New Mexico reported an out-of-body experience lasting five to ten minutes in May 1972; no object shape was specified in the case record.
Moline · IL, USA
A witness in Moline, Illinois reported a spherical craft with windows, rotating and moving up and down within about 25 feet of the ground, during a ten-to-fifteen-minute sighting in May 1972.
Port Penn · DE, USA
A witness in Port Penn, Delaware reported a silver-blue streaking object zipping into the center of a starlit sky during a five-minute sighting in May 1972.
Hico · TX, USA
Sometime in either 1972 or 1973 my grandfather and i were outside sitting down in hico texas when a white saucer type vehicle flew ver
Dannevirke (New Zealand) · New Zealand
Witnesses near Dannevirke, New Zealand reported a large blue light with smaller, variously colored lights moving toward and away from it, in formation, over thirty minutes in May 1972.
Essex (UK/England) · United Kingdom
ODD SOUND
Livingston · MT, USA
1972 fireball
Viet Nam · Viet Nam
Object was about 150 meters in size was in our free kill zone I was armed but did not fire because of its size it was less than 500ft f
Bicester (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Orange sphere traveling in the sky, leaving vapor trail, appears to hover w/o vapor, then proceeds to travel, leaving a vapor trail
Visalia · CA, USA
Witnesses in Visalia, California reported three disk-shaped objects seen at close range in broad daylight during a one-minute sighting in May 1972.
Schaumburg · IL, USA
UFO Lands In Mrs Larson's Backyard
Wilmington · DE, USA
Witnesses in Wilmington, Delaware reported a gigantic, glowing object hovering over Concord Mall in 1972, describing stopped cars, deafening silence, and a sense of lost time.
Indianapolis · IN, USA
Witnesses in Indianapolis, Indiana reported a multicolored, round disk-shaped object that was reportedly pursued by fighter jets, during a sighting lasting about an hour around 1972 to 1974.