The Best UFO Pictures in Years 1970-1979

	Early 1970s-Taken on Arizona/Utah border. Henry Rowland was doing landscape work for a client in California in the 1970's, and when the client finished paying him for the work he asked Henry, "Do you want to see a picture my brother took last week?" The client returned with this astonishing and detailed picture of a UFO and explained, "My brother went to the mountains last week, and while on the trip he suddenly saw this craft disappear behind a hill. He frantically ran to his car to get his camera, and in the nick of time held it up the split second when the thing reappeared again from behind the hill and shot off into the sky." Henry asked to make a contact print of the original photo, and the image below is this original one-off print. Original source-http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/BrozUFO.html
	1970-Tagish Lake, Yukon, Canada. While travelling along the edge of the lake. Jim and his wife saw seven strange glowing orbs as shown in the photograph. Jim estimated that they were 3 to 4 feet in diameter. They moved about slowly for the estimated 15 minutes that they watched them as he and his wife traveled down the lake. Their friend George was too far back to notice the objects and didn’t even have sight of Jim's boat. His concentration was devoted to the rough water. Jim or his wife never mentioned anything to George until the film was developed, about a week later.
	Corsica, France, 1971. At 4:00pm on February 12, a family who had recently purchased a new home in the northern part of the French island of Corsica, were preparing their camera to take a picture of the new house when one of the party noticed a glint in the sky and looked up. They all looked up to see a shiny, metallic object glinting brilliantly where it caught the sun's rays in the clear blue sky. The object was disc-shaped and had a low-profile curved dome on the top, with some kind of oval-shaped or rounded-rectangular black marks or openings around its sides.
	1971-Skillingaaryd-Sweden. At 09:55 A.M. on May 6, 1971, Mr. Lars Thorn, a truck driver, was riding with his son on his motor-bike in the neighborhood of the Skillingaaryd gunnery field in central Sweden, when they caught sight of an unconventional aerial object through the trees in the direction of the bunker. "Although it appeared stationary," Lars Thorn said, "It wobbled or rocked to and fro all the time. On the upper side there appeared to be a dome. Just below the dome there was something gray and red, and again just below that, I could see what looked like a green ribbon or band around the rim. The very bottom was red. A whizzing sound came from it at intervals of 10 to 15 seconds on more or less regular spacing." Thorn was able to snap two black and white photographs with his small camera.
	1971-Arkansas. Taken over Hot Springs on April, 17, 1971. No other information available.
	1971-Styria, Austria. Taken in St. Lorenzen, Styria, Austra on May 23, 1971. This is the famous "Rudi Nagora photograph."Nagora and his wife were vacationing in Styria, when he heard a "whizzing" sound from above him. Looking for the source, he saw a shiny, disc which was clear being in front of the clouds. After running to tell his wife, he grabbed his camera and took 12 photographs of the object. His photos are deemed legitimate, and have never been debunked.
	September 4, 1971 An official mapping aircraft of the Costa Rican government took this photograph. The aircraft was flying at 10,000 feet over Lago de Cote. An investigation could not identify the object as an "known" aircraft. Debunkers took some stabs at it, but it is still recognized as authentic by investigators.
	1971, Moon. Two astounding shots from NASA showing very clearly a UFO by the crater Lansberg on the Moon at the time of Apollo 14 mission. Reference: NASA AS14-70-9836/37. There has been a lot of debate on whether or not these photos show lights of an unidentified craft, or are they simply light glares on the capsules window or camera. Difficult to say, but interesting all the same.
	1971, Moon. In this second shot, the shape of the object looks like the one of a flying saucer with lights! Reference: NASA AS14-70-9836/37. There are two avenues of thought here. Firstly, the debunkers say if these really were UFOs why would NASA release the pictures, since they are part of a conspiracy to keep this info from the pubic. Secondly, UFO proponents say that if NASA did NOT release them, then everyone would holler "coverup, " and they were hiding UFOs.
	1971, Apollo 15. This photograph is from NASA, and some say we are looking at a UFO on the Moon at the time of Apollo 15 mission. Reference: NASA AS15-85/08. This bluish light mass has been explained as either debris from the capsule or some camera anomaly. Still, a very good picture, and quite a conversation piece.
	1971-Apollo 15, Mission Dates: July 26-August 7, CDR: David Scott, CMP: Alfred Worden, LMP: James Irwin Importance: First use of the Lunar Rover, extended Lunar exploration time, focus on on field geology. NASA archives (photo No AS15-85-11514) Astronaut David Scott on slope of Hadley Delta. UFO is seen at top just right of center.
	1971-Apollo 15, Mission Dates: July 26-August 7, CDR: David Scott, CMP: Alfred Worden, LMP: James Irwin Importance: First use of the Lunar Rover, extended Lunar exploration time, focus on on field geology. NASA archives. Photo NASA No AS15-90-12189 - Mission Apollo 15 on the Moon. UFO top right.
	1972, Apollo 16, Moon Mission Dates: April 16-27, CDR: John W. Young, CMP: Kenneth Mattingly, LMP: Charles Duke, Importance: Explored the Moon's rocky central highlands. NASA archives (photo No AS16-109-17804) Mission Apollo 16 on the Moon. Astronaut John Young on rim of Plum crater gathering lunar rock samples. UFO at top right.
	1972, Apollo 16, Moon Mission Dates: April 16-27, CDR: John W. Young, CMP: Kenneth Mattingly, LMP: Charles Duke, Importance: Explored the Moon's rocky central highlands. NASA archives (photo No AS16-109-17804) Mission Apollo 16 on the Moon. View of Plum crater photographed by Apollo 16 crew during EVA. UFO can be seen at top right.
	1972, Apollo 16, Moon Mission Dates: April 16-27, CDR: John W. Young, CMP: Kenneth Mattingly, LMP: Charles Duke, Importance: Explored the Moon's rocky central highlands. NASA archives (photo No AS16-109-17804) Mission Apollo 16 on the Moon. Astronaut Charles Duke photographed collecting lunar sample at Station 1. The UFO is seen at just right of top center.
	Las Lunas, New Mexico 09.24.1972. A farmer in Las Lunas, Mexico, returning to town, spotted several small objects "fluttering" along a few dozen feet above the desert scrub. They were small, about three feet in diameter, silver in color and made a buzzing sound. Similar domed disc-shaped objects were seen and photographed in the same area about five years later. This picture has long been thought to be a hoax, because of its clarity, and proximity to the witness.
	1972 Quebec, Canada The witness to this UFO wishes to remain anonymous. He was fishing at a lake when he first noticed this strange object moving below the clouds. He was able to get his camera and take one photograph before the object disappeared from his view.
	Herbault, France, 1972. Photograph captured near Montferrrier in the department of Hérault on September 16, 1972. It is ashamed that there is not more detail here, as this could be a very good image of a UFO. The darkness of the object seems to indicate a possible hoax.
	1972-Salt Lake City. August 3. Standing in a vacant lot near the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, Mr. Roy Lauritson took several photographs of this hazy object hovering directly over the Temple. The negatives have been analyzed and found to be free of manipulation. It has been suggested that the actual UFO objects hide behind or within a cloud bank, or create some type of artificial cloud looking substance to camouflage themselves. This could be an example of this process.
	1973-Louisville, Kentucky. "It was about 2:00pm I'd guess. I didn't hear anything. I had just seen two chipmunks scampering around the base of a Sycamore tree. Then I looked up and, by God, there it was... this round flying saucer. That's all I know to call it," reported this an electronics technician from Louisville. The man took six pictures in all, two of which were blurred because of the object's rapid departure. The pictures and negatives were examined by the COURIER-JOURNAL photo staff, and if the photos were faked, they were fakes of the highest quality. There were no other sightings in this area at this time.
	June, 1973, Ontario, Canada Two individuals were standing in the back yard of a home in Ontario. They were watching what they thought was an airplane approaching. As it moved closer, they noticed it was totally silent and moving very low to the ground. One of the men ran for the camera, and took 7 pictures.
	Circa 1973 Ontario, Canada The photographer remains anonymous. The witness took a series of photographs of the object. The circular object is clearly seen moving about a clump of trees. The photos have been deemed authentic by various photographic experts. A good, clear image for the time period.
	Chantereine, France, 1973. Jean Marc Bisson, aged 16, took this photograph from the window of his residence in Chantereine in the Seine-et-Marne on June 7 between 09:30 P.M. and 10:00 P.M. He was drawn to the window by the mewings of his she-cat, and there he saw strange gleams in the sky, coming from the Southeast and going towards the NorthEast, so he decided to grab his Kodak instamatic camera. The largest of the gleams seen on this photographs had the apparent diameter equivalent to that of the Moon for its central part.
	March 7, 1973 South Carolina In a rural community several members of a family were shocked to see an unknown object slowly floating towards their farm. A sound could be heard as it approached them. Several fairly clear photos were taken of the UFO.
	Cocoyoc, Mexico, November 3, 1973. A Mexican banker and his family saw a strange object approaching rapidly from the East in a clear afternoon sky. His wife said that the object was a round shape, and she drew her husband's attention to the object, and that while the distance between them and the object decreased they realized that it was not what they had initially thought: it was not a plane, neither a helicopter, nor even a competition balloon. The banker stopped the car on the side of the road and the passengers went out to get a better look at the object. The banker thought about his camera, took it, and made a first photograph at this time.
	Tavernes, France, 1974. A classic French UFO picture. Photographed by a French medical doctor that remained anonymous on March 23, 1974 in Tavernes in the department in Var, during a major UFO flap over France. Skeptics doubted the picture on the ground that "luminous rays cannot end like this." Of course they do not, normally. But the skeptics simply forgot to consider that these are not luminous rays but light emission by ionized air, for example.
	1974-Kapiolani Park, Hawaii. Tourists, vacationing in Kapiolani Park, were surprised by this UFO when it shot over the island in broad daylight. The entire encounter occurred within seconds. No military aircraft were observed following the craft. Taken on May 25. Not a very good picture. I tried to clean it up, but my source was just not very good.
	July 7, 1974, Belotie, Yugoslavia The anonymous witness was driving away from Belotie on the mountain highway system when they took this picture. The UFO appeared hat-shaped, a similar look to the Heflin photos taken 13 years before in Santa Monica, California. Also, amazingly similar to the famous object captured on video from Nellis Air Base.
	1974- Denmark, Scandinavia. Could this be the real thing? I have few details on this picture, but it is obviously a zoomed in portion of a larger image. The UFO is neat looking, but I have no documentation on it to make any type of determination on its authenticity.
	1974-Belotia, Yugoslavia. While driving away from Belotie by way of the mountain highway system on July 7, 1974, an anonymous witness photographed this UFO. Hat-shaped in appearance, similar craft were observed by Mr. Rex Heflin, near Santa Monica, California 13 years earlier, Mr. Amiel Barnea of Cluj, Romania six years earlier, and the UFO over Nellis Air Force Base.
	November 17, 1974 Viborg, Jutland, Denmark. A Mr. Lauersen was walking his dog in the early morning hours. He looked up and saw a strange looking object. The UFO was shrouded in a white cloud. He took this photo as the object was 250-300 meters away.
	December 12, 1974 Obihiro City, Hokkaido, Japan. About noon, 11 year old twin brothers Yoshitsugu and Katsuji Iino were looking out of a back window of their home. They noticed a dark disc-shaped UFO hovering in the sky. One watched the object as the other brother ran for a camera. They took four color photos of the UFO before it disappeared into the cloudy sky.
	March 18, 1975 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada An anonymous witness near Hamilton, on Lake Ontario, photographed this object as it approached him. The object appears to be a dark color. The UFO is very similar to one seen hovering over Centeno, Argentina two years later.
	1975-Saas-Fe, Switzerland. July 26. Members of a hunting party spotted this craft hovering low near the ground. It moved almost silently through the surrounding trees. Fortunately, one member was able to snap this photograph of the object. I wish we had a better photograph of this one, it is a traditional disc shape with a top. Still, for 1975 this is an excellent piece of history.
	1975-1982, Switzerland One-armed Eduard Billy Meier's UFO photos are unmatched for their clarity. Dubbed the Pleiadian/Plejaran "beamships," his photographs are numerous. Because of his handicap, he used for the most part an Olympus 35 ECR still camera. He also filmed many moving picture sequences using an 8mm movie camera.
	Revigny Sur Ornain, France, 1975. The photograph was taken by the Gendarmerie patrol on June 6, 1975 near Revigny Sur Ornain. This one was shot at the time when the phenomenon left the ground and shot up to the sky. No simple explanation has been found since for the reported events and the confirming photographs. A very interesting image.
	1976-Petaluma, California. Witness states: I was shooting Ektachrome film on a warm summer evening north of Petaluma, CA in August 1976. I shot several exposures in a 5 minute period when I was able to capture this shot. Everything is silhouetted as the sun had already gone done but this was easily seen. There are four blue dots on the flat side of the object and the edge would tend to show it was moving very quickly. Enlarging shows quite the detail. I sent a copy in the early 1980s to Walt Andrus who was with MUFON then. Having this on film and going thru some strange events made me a believer. Since then, over the past twenty years I have seen a few odd things in the sky that keeps me looking up !!! credit: 'Zirp Twirp'
	April 9, 1976 Nagoay City, Aichi, Japan. At 2:00pm, Hirohito Tanaka saw a small dark circular-shaped UFO with a raised dome in the center. The object made a low pass over his neighbor's house. He grabbed his Instamatic 126, and took seven photographs.
	1976, Paso Fonda, Brazil. Taken on 5-12-1976. No other information available.
	1976-Canary Island, Spain. Although the Canary Island case features a most extraordinary description of aliens and their craft, the occurrence is extremely reliable in that it includes multiple witness reports which agreed in all aspects of the case. The phenomenon began on the night of June 22, 1976, as residents of Tenerife, La Palma, and La Gomera began reporting the sighting of unusual lights in the sky. These lights and their maneuvers were different from anything residents of the area had seen before. You can see my account of this extraordinary UFO case HERE.
	1976-Argentina. Sr. Gonzalo Luis Heuer, watching storm clouds over the city of Balcarce on December 23, 1976, saw a pinkish-orange lenticular luminosity flying in and out of the clouds. He obtained a camera and snapped two pictures of the object before it disappeared.
	November 1976 South Herwang, Indonesia. By 2:00pm, engineer Tony Hartono had taken a series of photographs of an off-shore oil rig that his employer ARCO was building. He was shooting from a launch. With his last exposure, his took this photo as he looked at the ocean. The object appeared a yellowish color as it approached quite near to him after his last photo was snapped.
	1977-Bangkok, March 7. At 10:00am, Mr. Akita Takao, vacationing in Bangkok and Saigon, was taking in the sights of Bangkok, Thailand. He was on an excursion boat on the Mi-Nam River; and was passing one of the beautiful temples that sit on its banks. The light was good with the temples shining elegantly in the morning sunshine so he decided to take a picture of one of them. When Takao returned to Japan, he sent the exposed roll of film to his regular developer. A few days later when his prints came back from the processor, he was astonished to find the image of a solid-looking flattened, spheroid shaped object, with a hazy ring surrounding it in the center, suspended in the sky to the left of the temple he had photographed.
	1977-Argentina. At 2:00pm on June 21, 1977, a witness who declines identification snapped a color photograph of a shiny circular disc-shaped metallic flying object that had a high raised cupola on its top side. It was flying high above the trees, and above the lower scattered puffy white cloud level, but well below a higher cirrus layer of thin clouds. The brushed-silver disc had a smooth unbroken lower surface and a three-tiered dome. The lower part of the dome had a red-orange color, with a light yellow colored part above that which was topped by a reddish-gold knob at the uppermost level. No seams, joints, ports or projections of any kind marred the unbroken finish of the shiny craft.
	July 11, 1977 Floradad, Uruguay Horticulturist Hector Delgado took this photograph at 3:30pm. He first heard a high pitched humming sound which drew his attention away from his greenhouse work. The sound came and went, and then he saw, some 200m from his position and no more than 50m above the ground, a silver disc-shaped object moving smoothly, suspended in the air. He ran, grabbed his camera and took photos of the object.
	1977-Argentina. At 10:00am on July 11, 1976, Sr. Eduardo Gizzi and his family, driving their automobile from Victoria to Diamante, noticed a very strange flying object approaching at low altitude from the West. At first they thought it was a helicopter because of its compact appearance and low-level altitude, but as it came closer and they could see it in better perspective, they could see that it had no rotor on top and was not shaped like a helicopter. The object took up a position to their right and for some 15 or 20 seconds paralleled the Gizzy automobile. This allowed the witness to take one good color photograph of the flying craft without stopping the automobile.
	March 3, 1977 Walter Schilling took this photograph in Hamburg, Germany. The object possessed a strange rotating effect with a glowing fluorescent mast. The UFO was close enough to the ground to create a 30 foot shadow.
	1978-Colfax, Wisconsin. On April 19, 1978, police officer Mark Coltrane was on patrol in the vicinity of Colfax, a small town with a thousands of inhabitants in Wisconsin, USA. At midday, he decided to stop the car to eat something, in a small isolated area. He noted that his radio was emitting crackles. He then noticed a metalic looking disc raising towards the the sky at a short distance from the parking space. While the object seemed to move towards him, Coltrane picked up his Polaroid camera, came out of the car and snapped some photographs. The object was so close in one of the images that it is possible to notice some details of its lower surface. Truly amazing photograph.
	February 4, 1978 Miki-Cho, Japan This bell-shaped craft was photographed hovering above the island nation near Miki-Cho. It is very similar to several objects that I have frame- captured from Japanese video film. After a short time, the UFO reportedly sped directly upward through the atmosphere.
	January 4, 1978 Miki-Cho, Kagawa, Japan Picture taken by Hirobumi Matsushita at 3:00pm while with a friend. Object was a rare gold-metallic material. Matsushita stated that UFO was under "intelligent control." He took several photos before object disappeared.
	1978, Italy. Taken over the city of Purugia on September 16, 1978. No other information available.
	1978, Nevada. Las Vegas, July 13. No other information available.
	May 13, 1978, 4.00 a.m., Shiraz/Tehran, Iran 16 year old student Iamshid Saiadipour took this photograph of a UFO through the window of his parent's apartment. The object was hovering motionless in the night sky. The picture was published on May 18, 1978 by the newspaper "Tehran Magazine" and ended up in the files of the US Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1980, the files were released under the Freedom of Information Act.
	June, 1978, Barcelona, Spain Sra. Montserrat Batllori, a housewife, was watching a beautiful sunset through her window. She got her camera and began to take pictures to capture the view. One of her photographs showed three luminous golden flying objects over the buildings in the distance.
	Malaysia, Butterworth, Penang 1979. Photograph taken by an RAAF Serviceman on 2nd January at 6.15pm. The object was described as glowing in bright orange colour and had several portholes lining the edge of the saucer shaped UFO. Unfortunately, the photo is black and white, which does have its redeeming qualities, but doesn't help much in validating the pilot's description in this case.
	1979-Oulu, Finland. A picture taken by a named Rheneas Niequest in Oulu, Finland, on August 11, 1977. If this is authentic, and I have no reason to think not, this is an excellent photograph, especially for the time period. See full size image on this one for sure.
	1979-Suonenjoki, Finland. On March 16, 1979 Jarmo Nykanen took pictures in Suonenjoki, of a tiny blue glowing bell-shaped object as it moved up the slope of a hill. It ascended and descended and wandered from side to side in its travel. This looks like some type of monitoring device or probe to me.
	1979-New Zealand, October 27. Two former Air Force photographic analysts called this picture, "inscrutable." In other words, a mystery. This one photo is from a series of photos, none of the others had an unknown in it. The object was not seen nor heard at the time. Original source: "The Complete Sightings," Peter Brookesmith.

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