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)
Baltimore · MD, USA
saw three lights in a triangle shape as I looked to the left I saw a single light following the others
Cape Elizabeth (near; location unspecified by witness) · ME, USA
At approximately 1AM in September of 1979, a police officer two towns south from the town I work in called our mutual neighboring polic
Cottage Grove · MN, USA
Saucer shape in city of Cottage Grove,MN seen for 5 minutes
Monsey · NY, USA
I saw a large sauser shaped craft hovering over power lines for 10 minutes,then it flew away rapidly.
New Brighton · MN, USA
A close encounter with some backup.
Haltom Ciy · TX, USA
METALLIC GRAY TRIANGLE SHAPED CRAFT FLYING SLOWLY.
Sanford · NC, USA
cigar shaped crft with white light flashing from window to windows.
Ballentine · SC, USA
Silver Craft almost hit by our boat, and disappears into the sky in a flash, on Lake Murray S.C.
Joliet · IL, USA
Cold Case UFO Joliet, IL.
Twenty Nine Palms · CA, USA
Man repts. past sighting in CA while on guard duty in USMC. Told by senior officer "to keep his mouth shut."
Fort Valley · GA, USA
White ball of multicolored lights left 2 foot circle burned in grass
Manchester (UK/England) · United Kingdom
at the speeds this craft moved it would take a few minutes to cross the atlantic and travel from the uk to usa
Fort Frances (Canada) · ON, Canada
metallic, silent cylinders dropped silently and moved off
North Miami Beach · FL, USA
object blocks night sky above
Little Falls · NY, USA
Fireball at high altitude, at night
Omaha · NE, USA
Multiple triangle-shaped, silver objects in night sky.
Springfield/Longmeadow · MA, USA
" it ran through colors like I have never seen"
Campinas (Brazil) · Brazil
it was o tringle. it came from the horizon. first I thought it was an airplane because the light looks like a plane and because there i
Tinley Park · IL, USA
I wondered what idiot helicopter pilot was hovering so dangerously close above me
New Londons · WI, USA
dark, triangular object gliding low over neighborhood.
Lee Vining (north of) · CA, USA
large saucer
La Habra · CA, USA
OVAL ORANGE AND GREEN UFO OVER LA,HABRA CA. 90631
Mammoth Lakes · CA, USA
I saw a rolling ball of fire in the sky 500 ft off the deck traveling at 80-100 mph.
Bistolville · OH, USA
A Friend and I were looking out a window when a triangle shaped object flew over very slow, it was only about 20 feet above the tree to
Campbellsville · KY, USA
08/15/79 Campbellsville Ky oval shaped 1 min. oval shaped ship moving slow in the sky 10/02/05