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)
Concrete (outside of) · WA, USA
An incredibly bright, polished silver disk, probably about 35 feet in diameter, in broad daylight, about 75 yards away.
Saginaw · MI, USA
witnessed formation that came to a stop,turned suddenly went different way and disappeared
Porto (Portugal) · Portugal
short,colorfull, fast, suden, no sound
West Bloomfield · MI, USA
Flash -Red Beam - Green Beam - Flash
Simi Valley · CA, USA
There were multiple objects that hovered and accelerated at lightning fast speed.
Longmont · CO, USA
Black triangle monolith passed over Longmont, Colorado in the summer of 1978
Rochester · MN, USA
Streaking white dots
Amherst (Canada) · NS, Canada
Grounded pyramid formation of 3 objects alternating in colour and making a grinding noise holding a slow steady course.
Gadsden · AL, USA
3 ft. dia tan colored spherical object manuveing at 120+ knts.
Kranglvea (Cambodia) · Cambodia
During the massacre regime 1975-1979, I had seen UFO two time. One, in 1977 when I fell down from the tree, one of my legs was injured
Romayor · TX, USA
I shot a cloaked UFO and the fire ball was the bullet disrupting the cloaking field.
Covington · WA, USA
Flying Saucer seen in Covington / Kent, Washington 1978
Provo · UT, USA
I realize that it has been 30 years since our sighting (my wife and I)but. hopefully it will be of use to you... we drove to Provo cany
Cape Cod · MA, USA
The face in the window was scary as well as amazing!
Carbon Hill · AL, USA
A large triangle shaped craft, close to the ground, with no sound, at all.
Springfield · MA, USA
Summer of '78, Springfield, MA, a display of colors on a screen hovering above us.
Statesboro · GA, USA
In 1978 I saw six star-like objects sit stationary in the sky and then take off at an extremely high rate of speed
Lawrenceburg · TN, USA
Cigar shaped craft - 30 years ago - technology still cannot be explained
Ticonderoga · NY, USA
Triange shape,no noise,huge,pink lights.
Suffolk · VA, USA
Drove up to downed ship.
Heath · MA, USA
Parked in car on isolated road, object with flashing lights desended over the car.
Steubenville · OH, USA
My former neighbor and I were driving to a campsite in a rural area around Steubinville. As we turned onto the dirt road that led to t
Pendleton/Athena (between) · OR, USA
Tourquois-green fireball drop straight down from a cloud layer and hover a few seconds. Next made a bee line to our car, then shot str
Hickory · NC, USA
Large triangle shaped craft traveling west on Hwy 70, Hickory, NC, at almost midnight. ((NUFORC Note: Highly reliable witness. PD))
Fullerton · CA, USA
A huge mother ship