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)
Bergenfield · NJ, USA
This object flew through the circle of colored lights and disappeared.
Ford City · PA, USA
UFO black cigar shape with two smaller perpendicular cigar shapes crossing center.
Port Noarlunga (Australia) · Australia
the lights had a rotational sequence on the bottom
Mt. Royal · NJ, USA
Unknown contact event
Smithtown · NY, USA
I was walking w/ my friends; we were abreast, but I was walking backwards. I was 16 yrs old. I looked up, and about 100 feet above me w
Simi Valley · CA, USA
Large lighted silhouette of a face in the sky.
Elba · AL, USA
We stopped at Dairy Queen had supper. Going to my aunt an uncle three hours away It was dusty dark came to three trundle Bridges shoul
Long Beach · NY, USA
we saw craft flying and stopping between long beach and n.y.c.. It was too fast to be man made.
Western · KS, USA
It appeared as a "Wall of Fire" @ 50ft High and 1/4 mile Long
Brentwood · NY, USA
I might be a match for a report in your database
Wyandotte · MI, USA
Close up view of Triangular shaped UFO -Spacecraft communicates by repeating light signals
Simi Valley · CA, USA
I can witness to the actual size of a craft
Vitória (capital city of Espírito Santo state) (Brazil) · Brazil
A BIG YELLOW BRILLIANT BALL FOLLOWED BY MANY OTHERS COLORFULL SMALL LIGHTS IN V FORMATION FLIGHT
Fort Worth · TX, USA
Camping in a back yard with a friend, a creature looked into the tent at us, at which point hours were lost.
Beaver Creek · OR, USA
Craft appears from over the top of house and stops over yard as kids are looking out the window at bed time.
Wilkes-Barre · PA, USA
This was the biggest reported u.f.o. sighting as long as i can remember it was the summer of 76 in hanover and wilkes-barre. it was aro
Joshua Tree National Monument · CA, USA
single satellite type object omits other object flies in formation and rejoins
Tulsa · OK, USA
Light far away in sky racing away from a location & back twice to again race away and not return
Hobbs · NM, USA
Large Flash of Light observed from an FAA control tower in New Mexico.
Drumright · OK, USA
Enormous Craft over a mile in diameter, witnessed flying at night and low to the ground ......
Dale (south of) · IN, USA
GIANT FLYING ROCK FORMATION
Warden · WA, USA
Lights in the sky over Washington State
Limestone (Loring AFB) · ME, USA
what i saw avoided radar and physics flying so slow
Dunbar/Institute · WV, USA
Back in the Summer of 1976 on the campus of West Virginia State University (WV State College then) My boyfriend and I were parked behin
Little Rock (southwest) · AR, USA
Flourescent ball approximately 20 feet in diameter.Followed automobile at treetop level.Was seen by police.