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)
Morrice · MI, USA
UFO with multi-colored lights spotted out in the country in Ingham county
Ithaca · NY, USA
I was driving at nighttime from Dryden toward Ithaca NY on a country road when I saw a very large and bright white object in the sky.
Monroe · LA, USA
It looked like a hang glider and was totally quiet.
Hamilton (UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom
Fast moving small bright light
Margate · FL, USA
Night, black, silent, round, oval, pulsating lights on edge, very close proximity
Mesa · AZ, USA
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Rhein-Main Air Base (West Germany) · West Germany
Bright lights doing 90 degree turns over Rhein Main Air Base
Wheaton · MD, USA
Single bright light that flew across horizon very fast, in a straight line, leaving no tail or noise behind.
Victory Heights (Franklin) · PA, USA
Lights and some kind of being (creature) starring back at me.......
Knoxville · TN, USA
light following a grid
Fredericksburg · VA, USA
this is a valid sighting
Griffin · GA, USA
Saucer shaped UFO. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax. PD))
Hemel Hempstead (UK/England) · United Kingdom
clear bright night ,moon to the right behind a single cloud,we were driving up over Box hill which loooks down onto the town,on a narro
Whitman · MA, USA
a bluish white ball of light that moved with out a sound
Wilsonville · IL, USA
Wilsonville,IL 1979 also known at time for its radioactive waste dump in seventies
Athol · MA, USA
Hovering craft at tree top level, at night. Craft lit up from inside w/4 aliens clearly visible, 3 short, 1 tall, all gray type.
Whidbey Island · WA, USA
Observance of UFO over military base in 1979 or 1980
Mitrovica (Kosovo · Yugoslavia), Yugoslavia
A shining silver sphere appeared
Hollister · CA, USA
ORANGE BRIGHT EGG SHAPED OBJECTS
Napier (New Zealand) · New Zealand
The speed of this craft was faster than any aircraft that I have witnessed it vanished in a instant!.....
Court House Bay · NC, USA
FROM THE DISTANCE OF THE STARS AND HOW FAR APART THEY WERE THE SPEED HAD TO BE OFF THE CHART.
Castro Valley · CA, USA
saw boxkite shaped object with lights on corners, then driver saw tried to follow, to fast in blink of eye went 2 miles other direction
Farmington · NY, USA
Huge silent object witnessed in the sky in Farmington NY in 1979
Marion · IN, USA
Space ship in a dream.
Attica · MI, USA
I am reporting this as it has been a long time and has bothered me for quite some time. I was about 7 or 8 at the time my parents and