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)
Tullahoma · TN, USA
Up close and personal to a bright glowing disk while fishing at night
Charlotte · NC, USA
saw very large saucer shape low 300ft. hovering ufo craft
York · ME, USA
triangle with lights, and something like landing "legs"
New Orleans · LA, USA
Two Saucer Shape U.F.O.'s over New Orleans East.
West Orange · NJ, USA
Better left alone..
Cordova · AK, USA
UFO ALIEN ABDUCTION AND SPACE CRAFT INCOUNTER A DEMENSHONAL SPEED TRAIL WAS LEFT
Val Caron (Canada) · ON, Canada
The craft first caught my attention by it's size and lack of noise since the Sudbury airport is so near.The object appeared to construc
Higgins Lake · MI, USA
Higgins Lake ,Mi. Nov.1974 at night. Round, bright white object hovers over the lake.
Aiken · SC, USA
parallelogram shape outline only, no matter (substance) visible between the inverting of itself changing from red to green
Huber Heights/Dayton · OH, USA
1974-75, Huber Heights, OH Silent saucer/UFO hovering over me, incredible speed.
DeLand · FL, USA
Ultra-fast streaking soundless white light in the rural sky, car followed by dark shape in sky in same area.
Van Nuys · CA, USA
I SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE A "FALLING STAR" (A BRIGHT BALL OF LIGHT);JUST ABOVE THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS.THE LIGHT JUST KEPT MOVING IN
Juneau · WI, USA
a series of lights moving like a snake
Higgens Lake · MI, USA
Bright light hovers over Higgens Lake, MI one night1974 or 1975 during deer hunting season Nov.15th - Dec.1st
Whitewater (near) · WI, USA
On a date on a dark night a white sphere rises and moves toward a group of other lights then goes at amazing speed.
North Gower (Canada) · ON, Canada
HBCCUFO CANADIAN REPORT: Bright flashing object with lights around the outside of it.
West Milton · OH, USA
Two orange globes traveling slowly north to south.
Verbena · AL, USA
Big Bobbing red light
Denton · TX, USA
I was walking home from the Library at North Texas State University after the Library closed. From a distance, I saw a large red glowi
Weirton · WV, USA
Upon coming home one evening in the early spring, I saw in the eastern horizon three circular objects that looked like three full mooon
Deerwood · MN, USA
Sighting 3 An incidence occurred in mid-October, 1974. I picked my son up from wrestling practice in the evening after school. We live
Ankara (Turkey) · Turkey
A bright, huge, and shape-changing object, exploded into numerous smaller spherical objects which moved in formation.
Chester · NJ, USA
Three bright star like objects moving across the night sky at the speed of light and stopping on a dime.
Fresno · CA, USA
A short accounting of this even written for a memoirs class.
Fossil · OR, USA
((HOAX??)) The object at a distance looked like a Ferris wheel with multiple colors of red green blue yellow.