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)
UK/England (Devonshire) · United Kingdom
A witness in Devonshire, England reported a vivid blue light shining through a window in rays during a thirty-second sighting in June 1971.
Jackson · MS, USA
A witness in Jackson, Mississippi reported an encounter in 1971 in which a large-headed figure was perceived at their bedside; no object shape or sighting duration was recorded.
Holliday · TX, USA
Witnesses in Holliday, Texas reported a bright orange, saucer-shaped object that appeared to follow their car during a sighting lasting two to four hours in June 1971.
Newport · TN, USA
Witnesses in Newport, Tennessee reported a light that moved silently, alternating between slow drifting and extremely fast motion, for over five minutes in June 1971.
Westminster · CO, USA
I WAS TEN SLEEPING IN BACKYARD A SILENT BLINDING WHITE LIGHT ABOUT 50 FEET ABOVE ME MOVIG SOUTH ABOUT 10 MILES HR.IT LIT UP A HOLE BL
Albany · GA, USA
metallic saucer with row of orange glowing windows performed maneuvers via making upward or downward angles the shot across the sky
Vancouver · WA, USA
100 feeet in length blackin color daylight had neighbor see it had a sort of heat wave was 100 feet from it above parents house had tu
Berne · IN, USA
Day Light Sighting! As young boy playing outside, seen 2 silver round crafts high in the sky, being chased by 2 fighter jets.
Forrest City · AR, USA
Witnesses in Forrest City, Arkansas reported a silver, seamless disk-shaped object of which only the underside was visible, during a two-minute sighting in June 1971.
Moultrie · GA, USA
A local radio disc jockey in Moultrie, Georgia reported a cigar-shaped object above the station for ten to fifteen minutes in June 1971.
Whitman · MA, USA
Witnesses in Whitman, Massachusetts reported a triangular object accompanied by five bright orbs during a one-minute sighting in June 1971, combining two separate accounts.
Montezuma · IN, USA
Wabash River sighting.
Midway Island - Pacific Ocean · Midway Island
Viewed 7 lights each shaped like a "Chinese Latern". They serpentined in a slow path, that appeared about 100 feet overhead. No noise,
Victorville · CA, USA
Witnesses in Victorville, California reported a blinking, star-like light jumping erratically 20 to 30 degrees above the Mojave horizon for about thirty minutes in June 1971.
Fremont · CA, USA
Witnesses in Fremont, California reported a circular object emitting a pulsed humming sound as it zipped overhead in a matter of seconds in June 1971.
Allen · MD, USA
The ufo was above this radio tower. Me and my mom were watching it. It was about a half mile away as the crow flies. The ufo started t
Goodman · MO, USA
Witnesses in Goodman, Missouri reported a metallic, saucer-shaped object hovering at roughly 500 feet in broad daylight for three to five minutes in June 1971.
Portage · WI, USA
Gray cigar-shaped object hovering
Spokane · WA, USA
Sighting of a large metal flying object. The object was metal, flat-bottomed, with a sloped dome in the center. An Air Force jet was
Rowland · NC, USA
Witnesses in Rowland, North Carolina reported a triangular object with three bright lights gliding silently overhead and toward a nearby bypass in June 1971, observed for about three minutes.
Broken Bow · OK, USA
Witnesses in Broken Bow, Oklahoma reported a silent triangular object with a flattened front edge during a three-minute sighting in June 1971.
Sparta · NJ, USA
A multicolored, stadium-sized oval object was reported over Sparta, New Jersey, in June 1971, vanishing at extremely high speed within five to seven seconds.
Santiago (Chile) · Chile
es un recuerdo que no he olvidado tendría unos 2 ó 3 años, dormia en cama y un silencio diferente me despertó tengo imagenes de ver es
Eleuthera (Bahamas) · Bahamas
A disk-shaped object was reported near the Eleuthera Naval Facility in the Bahamas in June 1971, observed for about thirty minutes; the witness noted that records might still exist in the base's logs.
Brockton · MA, USA
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