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)
Palos Verde (northeast of) · CA, USA
There seemed to be no dissipation of the glow coming from the sphere. It surrounded it, stretched in one direction and stopped!?
Boulder Creek · CA, USA
I saw the craft slowly and silently gliding along a fire trail in the Santa Cruz mountians where I usually went on walks to chant on my
Santa Rosa · CA, USA
Unbelievably beautiful spatial anomaly
Orlando · FL, USA
Orlando, Pine Hills Disk
Talladega · AL, USA
irridescent disc spinning silently below treetop level at approx. 100yds distance. nothing between us and the object to hamper vision.
Osceola · IA, USA
((HOAX??)) it was a flying disk it was tracking us the chararistic of the disk dont aply it followed us.
Carrolton · GA, USA
Lights in the night sky of carrolton
Dennis · MA, USA
A ufo crashes into lake.
Rural New Mexico (no city) · NM, USA
A witness in rural New Mexico reported three triangular craft at around 3:15 a.m. in April 1971, during a sighting lasting about thirty-five minutes.
Burlington · NC, USA
I was thirteen years old, was in the back seat of a Volkswagon Beetle being driven home from school, while gazing out the rear window I
Thomasville · GA, USA
I did not record the date, I could not tell you if it was April or May, but I know that the year was 1971. Traveling from Atlanta to T
Los Angeles · CA, USA
ufo entry burn over salt lake city, seen from as far as los angeles to the west and denver to the east. pointy intake valve shape
Bogota (Colombia) · Colombia
I was eleven years of age at the time spending a year with my father. The whole family was home when I was upstairs on the terrace with
Waverly Hall · GA, USA
saw bright circular object almosr directly overhead and moving down to hover 200 yds to our right and about 100 ft above ground. Ist th
Gorham · NH, USA
A bright light was reported moving erratically and silently over the mountains near Gorham, New Hampshire, in February 1971, for about five minutes.
Pacific Ocean · Pacific Ocean
I was in the navy in 1971 on a recovery mission aboard the uss new orleans LPH 11 we recovered apollo 14 the apollo space craft was abo
Conshohocken · PA, USA
A very large, circular craft was reported descending over Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, in February 1971 as though having engine trouble, before stabilizing and testing its engines over fifteen minutes.
Havensville · KS, USA
A witness near Havensville, Kansas, described star-like lights darting around the night sky in February 1971, an observation corroborated by a grandparent, lasting about twenty minutes.
Everglades (on Aligator Alley) · FL, USA
Sighted while driving across the AlleyIt was about midnight and a UFO crossed the highway in front of me at very low altitude.It wa
Savannah · GA, USA
Hazy moon like object with attachments.
Deltona · FL, USA
I was in boot camp at Paris Island,S.C. Some of the platoon was in a smoking circle as was normal every night. I noticed in the sky a l
Niagara Falls (Canada) · ON, Canada
In van driving home. Van stalled beside Winery. One block ahead, hovering over an old schoolhouse was bright lights - Red and white cir
Hong Kong · Hong Kong SAR
A bright, greenish, bubble-like light was reported landing on a merry-go-round in a primary school playground in Hong Kong in January 1971, remaining for about seven minutes.
Tewksbury · MA, USA
A witness in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, described an inexplicable light in January 1971, reported the same night as other sightings in the area, visible for about five seconds.
La Ronge (Canada) · SA, Canada
A witness near La Ronge, Saskatchewan, reported a sighting at the Anglo Rouyn mine in northern Saskatchewan in January 1971, lasting about five minutes.