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)
Miami · FL, USA
Orange sphere with alternating sound, 30 feet in diameter
Trieste (Italy) · Italy
Falling star stops in the sky and speeds away at a right angle.
Covelo · CA, USA
BRIGHT OBJECT ENTERS VALLEY WHILE WE ARE ON THE PLAYGROUND.
New Danville · PA, USA
A bright white glowing disc that sat stationary above the village for some minutes.
Grapevine · CA, USA
METALIC EGG SHAPE CRAFT SIZE OF A HOUSE FLEW PAST OUR CAR ABOUT 100 FT TO THE RIGHT 50 FT OFF THE GROUND.
Hydes · MD, USA
this craft was 1000ft. in diameter. when it came over us, it stopped and then split into 4 wedge shapped craft. it split into 4, then l
Newtown · CT, USA
meteor like object about 20 feet from us
Ridgefield · CT, USA
Saw individuals that were not human.
Enfield · CT, USA
two objects came together in the sky.
South Lake Tahoe · CA, USA
Single bright light blinked out and back to different positions; Emitted powerful triangular search beam to ground.
Mountaintop · PA, USA
Seven teens see nioseless cigar ufo & one reports a swirl of light that stops 1 foot in front of her.
Mountaintop · PA, USA
Baseball field size. Triangular rotating lights. Red and white lights. Summer of 1976. At dusk. Mountain Top, Pa.
Riverside · CA, USA
Have not talked about this for years until now after seeing how the goverment keeps saying ufos are`nt real then why keep quiet.
Americus · GA, USA
It was a silver rectangle just sitting still in the daylight sky
Winchester · KY, USA
I witnessed a disk-shaped craft, with colored lights, move very slowly towards the northwest, in Clark County, Kentucky.
Marianna · FL, USA
the object was oval shaped and at the tipical attitude of small planes no distinguishing features no sounds
Lansing · MI, USA
Large saucer shape with rotating red lights..hovering slowly over treetops..no sound
Brazil · Brazil
Local resident witnesses a large, luminous object pass slowly overhead.
Dayton · OH, USA
Ironic that it originated from a W/P flight line hanger at a time when it was belived that recovered craft were being stored there.
Brownsville · TN, USA
I saw a wheel within a wheel
Delta (Canada) · BC, Canada
huge green hatbox-shaped cloud hanging without movement or dissipation in sky
Fricot City · CA, USA
Was reported to national ufo & government
Pahokee · FL, USA
Rapidly moving oject travels south, pause, goes north, and exits atmosphere, seen a shooting star.
Fountain · CO, USA
Stationary lit object hovered above trees.
Bennington (In or near) · VT, USA
While a student at a near by college, female from Hong Kong & myself went riding and was engaging in sex watched by a resident we were