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)
Charles City Co./Henrico (between; on Rt. 5) · VA, USA
A report from Charles City County, VA in August 1973 described a large, gray, cigar-shaped object with an illuminated porthole and two bright lights on its underside, lasting 5 minutes.
San Antonio · TX, USA
A report from San Antonio, TX in August 1973 described a huge, glowing sphere that appeared to emerge from a cloud in the night sky, lasting 30 to 40 minutes.
Irvington · NJ, USA
A report from Irvington, NJ in August 1973 described seven elliptical objects seen roughly six miles from Newark Airport, lasting 10 -15 minutes.
Schwetzingen (Germany) · Germany
A report from Schwetzingen, Germany in August 1973 described a light traveling horizontally at high speed that made a sharp 90-degree turn upward before disappearing, lasting 60 seconds.
Victory Lakes · NJ, USA
Watched a large, silent,bright, whitish, oval object hovering, moving slowly left to right and then so fast upward we lost sight of it.
Denver · CO, USA
A report from Denver, CO in August 1973 described a very large, boomerang-shaped object moving silently and slowly at treetop height from east to west, lasting 3-5 miutes.
Kenosha · WI, USA
Silver disk.
Saskatchewan (eastern --- rural) (Canada) · SA, Canada
A report from eastern rural Saskatchewan, Canada in August 1973 described a yellow, illuminated, cylinder-shaped object, lasting several minutes.
West Hazleton · PA, USA
A report from West Hazleton, PA in August 1973 described an object that descended and hovered overhead for an extended period, lasting one half hour.
Mriemont · OH, USA
UFO was taking electric from a electric jumping station and then started charging a smaller UFO The object was saucer shape.It was lat
San Diego · CA, USA
A report from San Diego, CA in August 1973 described an intense noise overhead that reportedly shook the ground, lasting 2 minutes.
Phillipsburg · NJ, USA
A report from Phillipsburg, NJ in August 1973 described a disk-shaped object that hovered over a river, lasting approx. 15 minutes.
Farmers Branch · TX, USA
A report from Farmers Branch, TX in August 1973 described a slowly rotating, tire-shaped object with what appeared to be portholes, hovering about 100 feet above a golf course, lasting 15 minutes.
South China (Three Mile Pond) · ME, USA
A report from South China, ME in August 1973 described a bronze-colored, bright, silent light moving from south to east over a lake, lasting 20 minutes.
Hudson · KS, USA
A report from Hudson, KS in August 1973 described three reddish-orange, arrowhead-shaped objects moving together across the sky, lasting 20 minutes.
Takoma Park · MD, USA
A report from Takoma Park, MD in August 1973 described three white, sphere-shaped objects that sped off one after another in different directions at very high speed, lasting 5 minutes.
Brocton · NY, USA
saucer sighted cruising over grape fields, low hum like sound, looked out window as it slowly made its way over house, lights on unders
Vicksburg · MI, USA
Strange light, Craft and Motion
Yellville · AR, USA
I think I saw and investigated a UFO water-stop.
Poland · OH, USA
A report from Poland, OH in August 1973 described a triangular object, described by the witness as dented and lit, seen and heard flying low over a home, lasting 10 minutes.
Hallandale · FL, USA
We were performing at a large private condominium (5 in a musical group)gated complex on an evening.. just turning dusk. My ex-husband
South Lancaster (Canada) · ON, Canada
I was at a corn roast at my cousin across the road from us. There would have been at 30 or mor people there between various relatives a
Dobson · MT, USA
Dear Sir, I thought I would report to you that on Fort Belknap Indian reservation we see lots of low flying jets. Often their sonic boo
Titusville · PA, USA
A report from Titusville, PA in July 1973 described an unexplained circular indentation, 10 to 15 feet across, found by the witness's grandmother in her yard.
Erie · PA, USA
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