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)
Ottawa (Canada) · ON, Canada
Returng home about midnight I encountered a meter diameter sphere hovering about 10 ft over the road.
Ottawa (Canada) · ON, Canada
Low Level Brightly Lighted Sphere Hovering in a Residential Neighbourhood
Pound · VA, USA
Hovered without sound- moved at a slow speed and accelerate at extrodinary speed.
Angleton · TX, USA
Massive spherical object glowing bright orange between Bailey's Prairie, TX and Angleton, TX.
Mason · MI, USA
I saw a bright silver, top shaped craft, which was stationary, and it affected my radio, and then reaslly moved fast.
Flathead Lake · MT, USA
UFO rising out of Flathead Lake…
Paul/Burley (Near) · ID, USA
Large cigar shaped craft seen stationary at high altitude. Then zoomed off.
Fredricksberg · TX, USA
We were camping at Enchanted Rock just outside of Fredricksberg, TX in July 1975. Several of us noticed a round object with many colorf
Green Bay · WI, USA
blacktriangles,hoovering or moving very slowly should of dropped out of the sky,no sound.no exhaust,day time sighting moved very fast.
Birmingham · AL, USA
CLEAR DAYLIGHT SKY SILVER SAUCER WITH BLINKING LIGHTS OLD SPRINGVILLE RD 1975
Morehead · KY, USA
This changed the way I look at things forever and no one can tell me that I didn't see what I saw. NO ONE
Triadelphia · WV, USA
Craft hovered over the pond, silently with its lights on.
Ramsey · MN, USA
Disk Shaped Craft Hovering over Farm
Decatur · IL, USA
Please no follow up info
Wittman · MD, USA
Came within 2 objects working in tandem - came within a few feet of one of then
Brea · CA, USA
A light in the sky which first moved South to North, stopped briefly then moved again West til out of sight.
Estes Park · CO, USA
A bright, fast moving light is chased by a military fighter jet.
Reseda · CA, USA
Dove Shaped Ships that Glowed Green in mid-1970s
Raleigh · NC, USA
UFO seen in 1975 on a desserted hwy. in NC
Smithland · KY, USA
I noticed 5 amber light in the shape of a triangle moving from east to west.
Summerside (Canada) · PE, Canada
A silent, floating, rectangular object the size of a football field, skimming the tops of buildings.
Yakima Firing Center · Yakima, WA, USA
Trianglular shape of light seen during military training exercise in 1975.
deklab · IL, USA
I was at a party in dekalb and was talking to my friend who was standing in front of the open window. It was the dark of the night beh
Dover · NJ, USA
07/15/1975 Dover,NJ Apprx 12 boomerang shape disks w/red center light hovering 2 hrs.1 larger than others.02/25/05
Turbeville · SC, USA
I was walking outside of our property to go to another building when a mint green light about the height of a telephone poll was glowin