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)
Houston · TX, USA
MY SISTER AND MYSELF WERE WALKING TO A FAMILY STORE ABOUT 3 BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE, WENT WE WERE HALF WAY THERE A SAUSER SHAPE OBJECT APP
Mt. Vernon · IN, USA
MADAR Event No. 8
Sydney (Australia) · Australia
I was picked up examined and let go
Ft. Yukon · AK, USA
TOOK PICTURE OF FLYING CRAFT AS IT PASSED OVER HEAD, 5 MILES OUTSIDE OF A REMOTE NORAD RADAR SITE FT YUKON, ALASKA HAVE HAD
Whiteland · IN, USA
DRIVING HOME FROM MOVIE SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE 3 JET PLANES FLYING IN FORMATION WHEN TURN THE CORNER TO GO HOME THAT IS WHEN IT STARTE
Fern Park · FL, USA
Beam, Column of light from overhead, no sound
Ft. Yukon · AK, USA
a small airport outside ft yukon remote radar site ( norad ) white oval shape object blasing thru the sky with a blueish gre
Flint · MI, USA
Spinning White 2'x 4' - No Lights?
Memphis · TN, USA
Mothership Sighting over Memphis Tennesee on February 14, 1976
Spooner · WI, USA
Driving almost due south through an isolated and heavily wooded section of N. wisconsin, sky was comlpetely clear with visibility at n
Sacramento · CA, USA
6 hyphen-shaped yellowish-white objects flying as group but shifting positions from NE to SW (Reno-SF) at approx. 35K alt. and 450mph.
Baker · MT, USA
mysterious light follows car at a distance and shoots down into the valley
Olympia · WA, USA
White flash across the sky.
Fort Gardens · GA, USA
Remember when the lights appeared over Georgia?
Dayton · OH, USA
I knew well a retired air force.man who reveiled he was a doctor present at the examination of bodies at Dayton, Ohio.
Simonstown (South Africa) · South Africa
unlike anything i had ever seen
Folkestone (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Saucer shaped object, flying slowly and silently, with coloured lights moved towards the bright light. I signalled to it,
Cannon AFB · NM, USA
Air Force scrambles armed fighters after "bogeys" and subsequent cover-up (1976)
Stansbury (South Australia) · Australia
It was a clear night, two people witnessed the sighting,no other aircraft were in the vicinity,the size was stunning.
Nashville · TN, USA
1976 bronze triangle seen in nashville, tn
Prince George (Canada) · BC, Canada
Glowing red saucer shaped object in the winter sky.
Fairbanks · Trans Alaskan Pipeline haul road 250 mi N of, AK, USA
Large white light traversing tundra that approached myself and friend.
Thousand Oaks · CA, USA
was like a dot in the sky turn into a shape with a bird in the middle and faded to the ground
Imperial · NE, USA
UFO parked on trail road at night.
Millis · MA, USA
Crashed UFO in Ma?