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)
Louisville · KY, USA
Three lights moving in the sky.Two white,one red. The size of a small aircraft light. Form a triangle and then shoot off backwards.
Silver Spring · MD, USA
Saw a saucer hovering over the, then Hebrew Congregation on Lockwood Drive. It was less than a 100 yds from me, as clear as day.
Thomasville · NC, USA
The even occurred North of Mt Calvary Rd on Old 85 on April 14, 1977. I left the library at UNC-Greensboro just about 10 pm to drive h
Hattiesburg · MS, USA
cigar-shaped white mettallilc object with four red and green lights positioned beside it - seen in daylight
Hattiesburg · MS, USA
cigar-shaped white mettallilc object with four red and green lights positioned beside it - seen in daylight
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Large dark moving void in the night sky over Phoenix, Arizona
Danielsville · GA, USA
My mother and I saw this big bright orangish-yellow light in the woods near the trailer park where we lived back in the 1970's.
Clearence Center · NY, USA
close encounter in ny
South Royalton · VT, USA
As reported to MUFONCT: While driving south on rt 89 near South Royalton, VT I spotted huge dark, metallic gray with sectioned plated
Long Green · MD, USA
Black Disc, Light driven
Augusta (Ft. Gordon) · GA, USA
As I reported in my first submission, I was standing guard, with a Pvt. Rodriguez. And noticed a fireball similar to the one I witness
Xenia · OH, USA
Disk crashed into oak tree wedging itself about 20ft off ground and the heat coming off it caused tree sap to boil into dense fog.
Kansas City · MO, USA
Symmetric geometric shape, black with blinking long red lights.
Sinton · TX, USA
i did not look scary or spooky just something i had never seen before or since
St. Albans · WV, USA
I saw a white circular object hover in the air and dart behind a cloud.
Terre Haute · IN, USA
Noise and extreme light outside my windows
Hamlet · IL, USA
UFO AT THE FARM.
Hometown · PA, USA
loud triangular craft with 3 lights over rural Schuylkill County, PA in 1977
Cebu (Philippines) · Philippines
im came from philippines now im here in the philadelphia.when i was 4 to 5 years old that is 1977.i seen a strange person in the dark m
St. Louis · MO, USA
Object was seen on a clear day no clouds except for a hazy disturbance around the object at a distance of about 1 mile. object appeared
Riverside · CA, USA
we looked up in the sky and saw 3 large metallic looking discs hovering way up in the sky. they did not move for an hour
Fort Knox · KY, USA
white spheres on military base no sound moved very slow
Macon · GA, USA
Early 1977 at the GA Acad. for the Blind in Macon. I heard a trumpet fanfare. ((NUFORC Note: Possible abduction. PD))
Stevens Pass (ski resort) · WA, USA
Scintillating orange sphere; exhibits near-instantaneous acceleration from stationary
Brea · CA, USA
Night-time flight of lights changes formation suddenly.