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)
Upper Saddle River · NJ, USA
A slow moving low altitude craft with lights was view by myself and two others
Barberton · OH, USA
Oval object, surrounded with multiple lights, first just hovering, then swerved and flew fast without sound.
Fayetteville · IL, USA
20 min encounter with quite a machine
Glennville · GA, USA
Summer 1976 or 77 a huge triangular objet with bright white lights moving very slow making no noise moving in a serpentine manner.
Chunky · MS, USA
Silver disk with light beam
Santa Paula · CA, USA
Hovering craft over the house.
Shepherd · TX, USA
Blue light over a triangler shape craft floating over road beside my house.
Tacoma · WA, USA
Orange Sphere
Niagara Falls · NY, USA
orange glowing object
Covington · KY, USA
((HOAX??)) suucer type ship with 4 lights uner it and symbols moving aroud the body.
Columbus · OH, USA
The object moved at right angles.
Jacksonville · FL, USA
Rotating Saucer Shaped Object with Multicolored Lights Flying Over Jacksonville
Covington · KY, USA
The object was brightly lit throughout the entirety of its body. It moved very slowly from the south of the area I lived in. I could ta
Point Pleasent · NJ, USA
1976 Point Pleasent, NJ - Bright star moving in square flight pattern
Alexandria · LA, USA
Ball of light incapacitated my best friend and scared me
Canterbury (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Silent saucer shaped craft joining up with a very bright white light
Gresham · OR, USA
We saw "it" and got the hell out of there! We then came back.......and so dit it!
Cascais (Portugal) · Portugal
20 years ago my father saw 3 triangular shaped objects "dancing" in the sky above him.
Cossayuna · NY, USA
I WAS SITTING WAS SITTING IN THE HOUSE WHEN ALL THE LIGHTS WENT DIM. THEN WE HEAR A LOUD HUMMING NOES AND IT FELT ALMOST LIKE PRESSURE.
Mankato Area · MN, USA
Camping with Camp Fire Girls when an unnatural, possibly extraterrestrial event occurred
Waco · TX, USA
I saw a hazy blue ball of light about four feet in diameter just off the ground.
Kannapolis · NC, USA
It was a clear starry night when i looked up and saw an oval shaped object with lights,hovering with no sound.
Rutherfordton/Outer Gilkey · NC, USA
it was a mass of blue light that kept us from moving
Newark · OH, USA
Craft hovers over our house in Newark Ohio across from the OSU Newark campus.
Steptoe · WA, USA
1976 St. John Steptoe highway white light took control.