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)
Holmes · PA, USA
It was brown, covered in crators. Like a small moon. It was spinning like a bowling ball between 200 to 300 feet from the ground. It wa
Arcadia · LA, USA
object moved from one point to another so fast that it looked liked there were two of them
Springfield · IL, USA
Close up with a UFO
Rockford/Belvedere (between) · IL, USA
Saw a very large object 1000-1500 ft in diameter having difficulty. Saucer shaped about twice the size of a quarter held at arms lengt
Crowley · LA, USA
Machine Sounding Heart Beat
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Major UFO seen over Brooklyn New York "It was silent and very much visable"...
Greenville (near the Greenville Airport) · PA, USA
Craft was triangular in shape.
Commack · NY, USA
In 1979 while driving east on new highway in commack just after dark ,i was looking at the sky over parkway drive north, what looked li
Spotsylvania · VA, USA
Returning home from an evening shopping trip my husband spotted several bright lights in the sky into the distance. Instead of continui
Kenna · WV, USA
Round object with lights hovered for a wile and then accelerated increadably fast, not of this world.
Farmville · VA, USA
2 out of 3 witnesses sitting together saw saucer fly by overhead, completely silently and suddenly.
Carrollton · MO, USA
UFO Abduction ofr Four People Near Missouri River in 1979
Rockford · IL, USA
Several round objects in a straight line formation
Sickles · OK, USA
It followed behind us for three miles. Appeared to be triangle shape with three lights. Made no Sound.
Lake Conroe · TX, USA
Fast moving, silent, blue and red orb seen over Lake Conroe, Texas.
Mount Wilson Observatory (Los Angeles) · CA, USA
i was "called" to visit a ufo on mount wilson while i lived in Glendale,California.As i rounded the last large curve on red box roa
Honolulu · IL, USA
saw a blue sphere moving over the of of a house in front of me--hovered 5 feet above the ground for an instant, 15 feet in front of me
East New York · NJ, USA
A very low flying UFO over the Hudson River in the early Fall at twilight!
Bryan · TX, USA
Shining Bright Light, Oval Shaped, no sound
Delden · NY, USA
Glowing cigar craft hovering over Middle Country Rd
Cold Lake (Canada) · AB, Canada
My father and I were coming back from a day of fishing and hunting on a lake NW of Cold Lake. It was approx., 9:30 at night, dark. We w
Medix Run (Cakedonia Pike area) · PA, USA
Bright light half the size of moon with 2 smaller lights.
Mobile · AL, USA
Rectangular object motionless in the sky over the Gulf of Mexico for 4 to 5 mintues which shot off straight up and was gone in less tha
Fayetteville · NC, USA
Missing time involved. Other witness remembers nothing. Tractor beam taking water aboard craft. 5 miles downrange, appeared 300 feet
Boulder · CO, USA
Saw six bronze color flying triangles, no lights on, flying between the stars in Boulder CO, 1979.