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)
Hampton · NH, USA
No noise from disc like object
Waddy · KY, USA
Super Fast Pin Point of Light Traverses Sky near Waddy, Kentucky
Marley Park · MD, USA
a glowing white (bright) object about 20 ft. in the air moving slow and coming at us and then it was gone .Gone so fast we didnt see it
Clarksville · TN/Oak Grove, KY, USA
A Fort Campbell sighting...
Granby · MA, USA
Saucer Shaped Craft seen by over 50 people Independance Day 1977, Granby MA
Toppenish · WA, USA
real people inside a real u.f.o. I identified it as a i.f.o IN 1977
Wixom · MI, USA
4th of July UFO in 1977, my husband and friend watched a large UFO go over our townhouse complex.
Federal Way · WA, USA
Close sighting, able to see bottom of craft well, hovered for at least 15 minutes just at the top of the poplar trees
Happy · TX, USA
On the 4th of July at my aunts house me and my girlfriend wanted to watch the firecrackers from the old field. After watching we start
Kekaha · HI, USA
the circular object entered U.S. airspace and refused to achnowledge communications. was then forced into the water at the order of the
Stratford · TX, USA
Triangle ship passed over silent with 7 green lights
Greenup (near) · IL, USA
We saw a huge cigar like metalic object that seemed to hang in the sky directly over the tree tops!
Brier Hill · PA, USA
Around July 18, 1977 about 3:30PM in the afternoon. A very nice sunny day with only patchy cumulus clouds. Driving home on US Rt.40 nea
California Hotsprings · CA, USA
Felt like we were in a trance the whole time.
Mt. Vernon · IN, USA
MADAR Event No. 9
Calumet City · IL, USA
Perfectly round with blue and orange perimeter lights. Windows all around the perimeter.
Clarion · PA, USA
Silent, slow moving black triangle hovering over interstate.
Des Moines · IA, USA
never made a sound
Hillsborough · CA, USA
Cigar shaped ufo moving at speed of falling star but stoped.
Mt. Vernon · IN, USA
MADAR Event No. 10
Mt. Vernon · IL, USA
UFOs reported to police in IL, (60 mi NW of Mt. Venon, IN) ((NUFORC Note: Report by Francis Ridge, experienced UFO investigator. PD))
Mayfield · KY, USA
Citizens had been reporting UFOs to police at Mayfield, Kentucky, 85 miles to the SW!((NUFORC Note: Report by Mr. Francis Ridge. PD))
Mt. Vernon · IN, USA
MADAR Event No. 11
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
Rare sighting of ufo formation shadow on the ground.
Live Oak · CA, USA
The Triangle over Live Oak