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)
Greenville · MI, USA
An aircraft hovered over a car coming in our direction & then reversed, hovering over our car.
Rock Hill · SC, USA
IT WAS IN THE SUMMER OF JULY-1977 WE HAD A WINDOW FAN SITTING IN OUT BED ROOM WINDOW,SOMETIMES IT WOULD GET OFF BALANCE,AND I WOULD GET
Ann Arbor · MI, USA
Ufo in long cloud moving through sky
Placentia Jct. (Canada) · NF, Canada
Visually tracked fast moving satellite, two other points of light converged on it from different directions at a faster rate of speed,
Edgemoore · SC, USA
IT WAS DURING THE SUMMER OF 1977, THE HOUSE I LIVED IN DID NOT HAVE AIR COND,WE HAD A WINDOW FAN IN OUR BEDROOM TO CIRCULATE THE AIR TH
Arleta · CA, USA
Hovering ship over back yard
Roosevelt Roads (Puerto Rico) · Puerto Rico
The bright light appeared over the gate house and all the power went as it hoverd over the house.
Stockholm (Sweden) · Sweden
Spehere with BRIGHT red light, totally quiet. probably smoke-tail when flew away. duration 5-10 minutes. outside window.
Auteuil (Canada) · PQ, Canada
saw a sphere the size of a disco ball near the power lines.Was turning on itself,loss track of it after went pass a tree.
Korba · MP (India), India
A fast moving low altitude orange colored cloud like object
New Albany · OH, USA
Large UFO in Ohio
Glasgow (UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom
Observed two large shimmering orange sphere's float up into the overcast sky.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
The object appeared to be a giant piece of glass.
Orlando · FL, USA
Flying saucer outside of Orlando, Florida summer of 1977
San Francisco · CA, USA
The object hovered over my bedroom window with spinning circular lights
Huntington Beach · CA, USA
This was a rectangular object with a red and green pulsing lights there were two officers which apparently also saw this.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Lights in formation, stopped, changed formation, then continued along their previous direction.
Mt. Vernon · IN, USA
MADAR Event No. 12
Houtzdale · PA, USA
Object seemed to want to distance itself from our presence.
Douglas (Canada) · ON, Canada
Rapid erratic motion of a 'star'-like light, ending with trenmendous speed over the horizon.
Orlando · FL, USA
i was on a family vac when i was ten we were coming back from dinner i was in the back of a car. when i look out the window a caught a
Douglas (Canada) · ON, Canada
A light, like a star, moving erratically, stoopng, then shooting off beyond the horizon.
Hazard · KY, USA
Missing time and possible abduction while camping in Daniel Boone National Forest
Fairview · NJ, USA
A flying globe looking object.
Edinburgh (UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom
Huge craft appeared slowly in the west,it looked to be very large for something that was at least two miles away(approx)it travelled ve