Documented sightings from the 1970s, sorted from most recent.
A Spanish airliner with 109 passengers made an emergency landing at Valencia after being shadowed by two bright objects; the Spanish Air Force scrambled a Mirage F1 that could not catch them - and the MoD's 1992 declassified file confirms the radar tracks.
Scottish forestry worker Robert Taylor was physically attacked by a UFO and smaller spheres, leading to the only criminal investigation of a UFO encounter in British history.
A TV film crew captured footage of luminous objects simultaneously tracked on Wellington radar off New Zealand's coast, investigated by the RNZAF.
RCMP Constable James Blackwood and twelve witnesses observed an oval craft with a fin hovering over water for two hours near Clarenville, which mimicked the flashing lights of his police cruiser.
Pilot Frederick Valentich vanished over Bass Strait after radioing about an unknown craft hovering above him; no trace was ever found.
Brazilian Air Force 'Operation Saucer' investigated UFOs reportedly attacking residents with beams of light, producing over 500 photographs.
A massive jellyfish-like luminous object hovered over Petrozavodsk, prompting the Soviet government to establish official UFO research programs.
Fourteen schoolchildren and dozens of adults reported UFOs and humanoid figures across Pembrokeshire, Wales, creating the 'Welsh Triangle' phenomenon.
Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept a UFO over Tehran experienced weapons and electronics failures, documented by a declassified DIA report.
Four men on a camping trip in Maine experienced missing time after a beam of light engulfed their canoe; all independently recalled identical abduction experiences.
Thousands across the Canary Islands witnessed a massive luminous sphere; the Spanish Air Force investigation found no conventional explanation.
UFOs repeatedly hovered over nuclear missile silos at Malmstrom AFB, tracked by NORAD radar, as part of a broader wave at northern-tier military bases.
Logger Travis Walton was struck by a beam from a hovering disc and vanished for 5 days; six coworkers who witnessed the event passed polygraph tests.
Unknown craft repeatedly hovered over the nuclear weapons storage area at Loring AFB during a wave of UFO incursions at nuclear bases across the US.
South African farmer Danie van Graan observed a metallic craft with four humanoid beings at close range before being struck by a beam of light that caused permanent vision damage, with landing traces found at the site.
An alleged midair collision between a small plane and a UFO near Coyame, Mexico, reportedly led to a covert U.S. military crash retrieval operation.
A seismic event, explosion, and glowing object on the Berwyn Mountains created the 'Welsh Roswell,' with allegations of military crash retrieval.
A US Army helicopter was pulled upward 2,100 feet by an unknown force while a cigar-shaped object bathed it in a green beam, confirmed by ground witnesses.
Two fishermen reported abduction by robotic beings; a secret sheriff's recording captured their genuine terror when they believed they were alone.
Three NASA astronauts aboard Skylab 3 observed and photographed a bright red rotating object from orbit for over 10 minutes, with NORAD unable to identify any known object in the vicinity.
On December 11, 1972 the Apollo 17 crew described 'jagged angular fragments' tumbling past the spacecraft windows - 'the Fourth of July out of Ron's window.' The Pentagon re-classified the photographs from 'insulation' to 'potentially physical object' on May 8, 2026.
A teenager witnessed a glowing object that left a hydrophobic ring in the soil with anomalous chemical properties persisting for years.
The Air Force allegedly filmed a UFO landing at Holloman AFB and offered the footage for a documentary before withdrawing it at the last moment.
A Costa Rican government mapping camera accidentally captured a sharply-resolved 210-foot disc hovering above Lago de Cote during a 1971 survey flight - the crew never saw it visually, and the calibrated negative remains in the national archives.
Apollo 14 lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell - the sixth man on the Moon - became the most prominent US astronaut to publicly assert that the Roswell incident was real and that ETs visit Earth.