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)
Appleton · MN, USA
I woke up and saw it hovering noiseless over the neighbors horses and the highway. I awoke the whole family
Michigan · MI, USA
in1978 i was riding on back of motorcycle a couple were in front of us. Over a large grouping of trees i a rural area to our left above
Manchester (UK/England) · United Kingdom
weird lights sighted by brothers & only recalled years later.
Boston · MA, USA
It was gold and round about the size of a golfball.
Jarabacoa (Dominican Republic) · Dominican Republic
Cigar UFO sighting Dominican Republic 1978
Hoopa · CA, USA
Twinkling lights, oval shaped craft, no sound, hovered for 45 min. Around midnight, 1978
Orange · CA, USA
UFO disappears behind trees
Levittown · NY, USA
I saw this disc in broad daylight clearly!
Granite Station (near) · CA, USA
We, had sence of dread, but not hostility; I was armed with high power rifle, felt no need to use it.
Zimmerman (3 miles east of) · MN, USA
Was it childhood imagination or real?
Madison Heights · VA, USA
Circular lighted object sighted
Lowell · MA, USA
In summer of 1978 @ age 7,I looked out my third floor window and saw a steadily and slowly moving hot-dog shaped object,red-orange sun-
Mancelona · MI, USA
The craft hummed loudly, was saucer shaped and had lights that were rotating around the edge.
Baton Rouge · LA, USA
HUGE oval craft hovering over the treetops follows our car.
Stanwood · WA, USA
Low level, high speed flyby
Mancelona · MI, USA
We thought our foster daughter was kidding us, until we saw the metallic saucer shaped object humming loudly over the Michigan farmland
Chattanooga · TN, USA
On apartment deck. Saucer went overhead at 150 feet high. No lights, no sound. Diameter 150-200 feet. Black in color. Saw rivets where
Mancelona · MI, USA
On a warm summer night, we saw a saucer shaped UFO that hummed very loudly.
Mansfield · PA, USA
Enormous dark craft very slowly and quietly crossed sky overhead from east to west
Seattle · WA, USA
"Starwars" dog-fight in the night sky.
Madera · PA, USA
Orange/yellow sphere of light without sound and traveled at intense accelleration with intelligence
St. Clair · PA, USA
Glowing sphere of light near St Clair - Burma road fire tower late 1970's-1980 era
Three Oaks · MI, USA
Approx. 1000 feet above us. Bright window light illuminated entire craft. Approached and passed over maybe l0 M.P.H.
Albany · NY, USA
Orange fireball
Lemoore Naval Air Force Base (sic) · CA, USA
silent like wind in the trees @ 150 yards in length 75 - 80 yards in width, multi color lights, within a transluecent outer shell, Movi