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)
Finland · Finland
Diamond or kite shaped cluster of high altitude red lights that changed to horseshoe pattern and zipped to the horizon.
Wassaic (Falls Village) · NY, USA
Area of Wasaiic Developmental Center late 1979 - 1980-New York/Connecticutt area
Detroit · MI, USA
Obserbed bright disc in upper right quadrant of windshield as I was backing out of my drive, car was facing sough. As I drove eastward
Hollister · CA, USA
Huge Triangle, "headlight orbs" 20 feet off the ground with a blue column of light underneath them, and tall human.
Clarksburg · WV, USA
Asatched the light travel back and forth and uyou could see no craft. When the light went off, oh my God.
Burnaby (Canada) · BC, Canada
the truth is out there , we've all seen it
Ft. Jackson · SC, USA
Falshing light
Falls City · OR, USA
"ENCOUNTER AT BLACK ROCK"
Morden · Surrey (UK/England), United Kingdom
Spinning metallic object.
Lomita · CA, USA
Silent disk in afternoon daylight with over twenty witnesses
Columbia · MD, USA
Large, low-flying, slow moving, silent black rectangle with no lights
Olympia · WA, USA
Dancing lights over Olympia
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
Disk appeared over stadium at end of game... spun like a coin on a table...game ended ... never heard a thing about it.
Buffalo · NY, USA
Two bright fast-moving star-like objects with one traveling in a zig-zag motion.
Tonawanda · NY, USA
Two circular objects. Almost chasing each other in zigzag formation. Moving fast. We stopped and starred up in the night sky to see t
Cranbury · NJ, USA
8 UFOs in a circle suddenly take off radially away from each other.
Wabasca (Canada) · AB, Canada
Craft hovered right above us,intense sounds, bright lights/beams shining from the mid section of the craft, and felt magnetic field.
Poughkeepsie · NY, USA
1/4 moon-like, its 'chord' or flat side parallel to horizon, bright orange-red glow, completely silent, no features.
San Diego · CA, USA
My 2nd UFO sighting, October 1979
Saddle Lake (Canada) · AB, Canada
Lights far above, that glance; then flee from the celestrialhavens, only to appear again.
Security · CO, USA
very low clouds all different colors,search lights were seen shining down out of the clouds on the houses and streets. this event was s
Barnegat · NJ, USA
Iwitnessed one object moving east to west across Rt.539 4 mile north of Rt.72 near the Fire Tower. There were no cloud and the sky was
Ellwood City · PA, USA
What ever it was it knew I was their
Bemidji · MN, USA
UFO drone watching a football game.
Gig Harbor · WA, USA
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