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)
La Habra · CA, USA
ufo was a triangle, approx. 100 Yds each side, approx. 50 feet thick. 1st view from side..several minutes..2nd/3rd view underneath 15 m
Ranger · WV, USA
Late night summer of 1979. Three triangle shaped craft.
Grosse Pointe Woods · MI, USA
Very large dark rectangular object silently tracking across sky was seen on two seperate occasions
Louisville · KY, USA
Second sighting of object in the Preston Hwy./Gilmore Lane area. This was the same silent, metallic, dome-shaped object sighted almost
Rancho Palos Verdes · CA, USA
Late at night in the summer of 1979 a huge chevron shapped UFO flew silently and slowly just above the rooftops of So. California
Yakima (30 miles east of · on Highway 24), WA, USA
Man remembers seeing object with three revolving lights in sky in front of his traveling auto. Object disappears, car lights go off an
N. Cascades Nat. Park · WA, USA
Bright green round object quickly travelling east to west.
Arnheim · MI, USA
Two thimble shaped U.F.O.s fly over head in broad daylight and make no sound. Bronze in color
Niagara Falls · NY, USA
This very delayed report is the result of just finding your site as received a link from a friend.Let me preface this with an obser
Tilton · NH, USA
Silver/white cylinder moving slowly with no sound or lights.
Saginaw · MI, USA
fleet of saucers spotted in Saginaw,Michigan
Hayti/Kennett (between) · MO, USA
Happened when I was 17. A friend was following me from Kennett,MO to Hayti,MO in a car after we had visited our girlfriends in Kennett.
Ocala · FL, USA
fishing over resevoir object hovered for 20 minutes 2-3 feet above water, went straight up into space until it became vanished
Boone · NC, USA
Large silent cylindar spotted on ASU campus, Boone NC, with large light, hovering just above treetops
Garden Grove · CA, USA
Cigar shaped object
Minot · ND, USA
Large rectangular object hovering over Minot Air Base, ND.
Tatum · TX, USA
OVAL TO ROUND IN SHAPE LARGE VERY BRIGHT
Parker · CO, USA
((HOAX??)) Three lights split off in different derections. ((anonymous report))
Springhill · LA, USA
An object was seen observing a large construction site of various sized concrete pads then shot away at a high rate of speed.
Bornem (Belgium) · Belgium
Small orange disc in tree, almost touched it
Birmingham (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Followed for a while and missing time.
Cleveland · OH, USA
IT IS NICE TO KNOW THAT OTHERS HAVE SEEN "CROSS" SHAPED UFO'S WITH LIGHTS THAT STRETCH ACROSS BOTH LINES OF THE ENTIRE CROSS (+)!
Laredo · TX, USA
Spinning circular black UFO with changing lights.
UK/England · United Kingdom
METALIC SPHERE
Alameda · CA, USA
This is a very delayed report: While stationed at the Alameda Naval air station in California. It was I believe early in 1979 when thei