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)
Los Angeles · CA, USA
I could see vehicles driving eastbound on the 134 freeway & the UFOs passing over the top of them.
Lake Worth · TX, USA
Naval Air Station UFO
Los Angeles · CA, USA
White lights w/blue halo over Santa Monica Fwy.
Minneola · FL, USA
The strangest thing I have ever seen.
Ridgway · IL, USA
rectangular in shape with a dimly glowing red globe on each end, hovering at 150 ft. , football field sized
Ocala National Forest · FL, USA
Blinding bright light over Travel Trailer no noise
West Hawk Lake (Canada) · MB, Canada
One yellow oval light observed high in the sky moving due North at a high clip (rate) of speed.
Southgate · MI, USA
Round aircraft, high in sky, had depth or height to it, square windows that spun fast with lights round and round - 100's witnesses
Grand Forks · ND, USA
Lights in the sky that came to us.
Brasilia (Brazil) · Brazil
Cloudy night. Was close to Brasilia International Airport. Some white flashes (like photo camera flash)randomic, about 6 or 8 white lig
Auckland (New Zealand) · New Zealand
I lived at the end of Garnet Road Auckland. That afternoon I was at my letter box when I noticed four youth standing at their car look
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) · Brazil
I WAS IN BARRA DA TIJUCA IN A CAMPING SITE WITH 2 FRIENDS, SAW LIKE A PYRAMID IN THE AIR, STARTED TO RUN AWAY, THE GIRL RAN AWAY A FEW
Ft. Knox · KY, USA
5 white glowing balls
Joyce Kilmer Slickrock Creek Wilderness · NC, USA
very large craft, moving at the speed of light, no sound, lots of lights, jet aircraft came to invesitgate.
Bloomington · IN, USA
Three Faint Oval Shaped Objects Flying In Apparent Formation At Night
New Canaan · CT, USA
possible abductions when I was a kid living in Ct. in the middle of the night i would be forcibly floated out of house by short people
Great Neck · NY, USA
When I was a child, I witnessed shiney gold cylinders in the sky. The sky was very clear; not a cloud in the sky. The objects were fl
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
A small gray ball moved past my bedroom window on the 15th floor of a New York City apartment building.
La Crescenta · CA, USA
Triangle formation in foothills.
Westminster · CA, USA
There were two ships, saucer shaped, silver grey..like pewter, soundless, drifting over our neighborhood like silent boats on the water
Adelaide (South Australia) · Australia
Several people witnessed positive UFO on clear day.
Dearborn · MI, USA
Slow, low flying triangle with no sound
Houston · TX, USA
((HOAX??)) At Milby Park, near junction of 610and hwy.225. Extremely cold nite for Houston.
El Paso · TX, USA
Bright light deep in space moving very fast
Dingman's Ferry · PA, USA
While working as a security guard at Wild Acres Lake in 1977 saw a bright rise off the ground, hover over trees and shoot off into sky.