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)
Lancaster · KY, USA
Well I didn't know there was a place you can put sightings. Yes I was seven and it was right around Christmas time , we lived in some a
Philadelphia · NY, USA
multi colored
Jackson · MS, USA
it was xmas eve, we decided to take a different routte when we went through the town phocahuntis... we stopped at this stop sign when t
Amherst · OH, USA
The object/craft was able to stop time.
Worcester · MA, USA
We observed a 60-80 ft diameter metalic craft (disk shaped- flat on top)move by us at 70 ft high & 100 yards of dista-nce.
Whitehorse (Canada) · BC, Canada
Nightime sighting by many witnesses which forced a police car and fire truck off the road
Marble Hill · MO, USA
High orbit, 2 objects. Third object from outer space rendezvoused.
Brockport · NY, USA
Saucer craft moves slowly, hovers, tips up on angle, passes over town, lands in open field.
Weimar · CA, USA
i was 23 years old and had just given birth to my first child two days previous. my daughter was just hours old and i was marvelling a
Hamilton (Canada) · ON, Canada
HBCCUFO CANADIAN REPORT: This object was round in shape with lights that wrapped around it.
Jackson · MS, USA
large black triangular craft with searchlight moving slowly
Newburgh · NY, USA
Stationary UFO in Newburgh Upstate New York 1975. ((NUFORC Note: Date corrected to November 15, 1977. PD))
Sidney · MT, USA
Small saucer with red, green and blue lights.
Kalamazoo · MI, USA
Close encounter near Kalamazoo
Boston · MA, USA
two very bright lights shone through the rear window of a parked car, rose up and went into the sky.
Bensalem · PA, USA
The craft hovered approx. 15 ft. above my station wagon.
Aurora · CO, USA
i could see it but my friend standing next to me could not it was plain as day right there.
Tahlequah · OK, USA
Triangular shaped object stopped over horse pasture in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in 1977
Saint James · NY, USA
I, and two other witnesses, observed a red glowing sphere for approximately 10 seconds.
New Hampton · NH, USA
white/yellowish lights shaped like a bulldozer track moving in a counterclockwise direction.
Canandaigua · NY, USA
Triangular craft watching Bristol Mountain Ski Resort
Jones/Jasper Co. line · Hwy.15N, MS, USA
3 objects 90 ft. tall . observed from 270 ft. away. objects were 2 blue pyrmids pointing into red ball, shooting shafts of white light
Iselton · CA, USA
While fishing on the San Joaquin river on Twithchell Island Rd., at the mouth of the Molklomne river, we observed 2-lights high in the
Fountain Valley · CA, USA
My brother, his friend and I saw an orange pyramid-shaped object in the sky about 25 yards away from us and about 25 yards up. We were
Biloxi · MS, USA
Sighting of UFO by Fernwood Junior High School band students. Biloxi, Mississippi between 1976 and 1979.