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38 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters of the 1970s, 1971 to 1979: 18 unresolved, 14 disputed, 4 explained, 2 identified. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Fort Beaufort — police fire at an object 26 June 1971 · Braeside farm near Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape UNRESOLVED Lake Cote aerial survey photograph 4 September 1971 · Laguna de Cote, Costa Rica UNRESOLVED Delphos ring 2 November 1971 · Delphos, Kansas UNRESOLVED Pascagoula encounter 11 October 1973 · Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi UNRESOLVED Coyne helicopter incident 18 October 1973 · Near Mansfield, Ohio DISPUTED Berwyn Mountains "crash" 23 January 1974 · Cadair Berwyn, North Wales EXPLAINED The Betz mystery sphere 27 March 1974 · Fort George Island, Jacksonville, Florida EXPLAINED Coyame “crash” — Chihuahua 25 August 1974 · Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico DISPUTED Langenburg rings 1 September 1974 · Langenburg, Saskatchewan UNRESOLVED Billy Meier’s “beamship” photographs 28 January 1975 · Zürcher Oberland, around Hinwil, canton of Zürich IDENTIFIED Loring Air Force Base intrusions 27 October 1975 · Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine UNRESOLVED Wurtsmith Air Force Base and the KC-135 chase 30 October 1975 · Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda, Michigan UNRESOLVED Travis Walton disappearance 5 November 1975 · Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona DISPUTED Malmstrom AFB — objects over the missile fields, November 1975 7 November 1975 · Malmstrom Air Force Base and its Minuteman missile fields, Montana UNRESOLVED CFS Falconbridge — the NORAD message from Ontario 11 November 1975 · 30 nautical miles south-south-west of Canadian Forces Station Falconbridge, near Sudbury, Ontario UNRESOLVED Canary Islands sphere 22 June 1976 · Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura) DISPUTED The Allagash abductions 26 August 1976 · Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, northern Maine DISPUTED Tehran F-4 Phantom intercepts 19 September 1976 · Tehran, Iran UNRESOLVED The Moroccan coast “UFO” — a Soviet rocket part re-entering 19 September 1976 · Along the Atlantic coast of Morocco, from Agadir to Kenitra and inland to Meknes and Fez IDENTIFIED Talavera la Real air base sentries 12 November 1976 · Talavera la Real Air Base, Badajoz UNRESOLVED Broad Haven schoolchildren — the Welsh Triangle 4 February 1977 · Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales DISPUTED Corporal Valdés — the patrol at Pampa Lluscuma 25 April 1977 · Pampa Lluscuma, near Putre, Arica DISPUTED Petrozavodsk phenomenon 20 September 1977 · Petrozavodsk, Karelia, USSR DISPUTED Colares "chupa-chupa" & Operação Prato 15 October 1977 · Colares Island, Pará DISPUTED The object that fell near Bermejo — Bolivia’s 1978 search 6 May 1978 · El Taire hill above the Bermejo River, Tarija department, on the Argentine border UNRESOLVED Emilcin abduction report 10 May 1978 · Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship UNRESOLVED Gujan-Mestras — the light that put out the street lamps 19 June 1978 · Gujan-Mestras, Arcachon basin, Gironde EXPLAINED Disappearance of Frederick Valentich 21 October 1978 · Bass Strait, off Cape Otway, Victoria UNRESOLVED Clarenville — RCMP constable watches object over the water 26 October 1978 · Clarenville and Random Island, Newfoundland UNRESOLVED Kuwait’s oil-field sightings and the pumps that stopped 9 November 1978 · Kuwait Oil Company fields around Umm al-Aish, near the satellite earth station, northern Kuwait UNRESOLVED Zanfretta — the Torriglia night patrol 6 December 1978 · Marzano di Torriglia, Genoa, Italy DISPUTED Kaikōura lights 31 December 1978 · Kaikōura coast, New Zealand DISPUTED Cecconi G.91R photographs over Treviso 18 June 1979 · Treviso Sant'Angelo air base, Veneto DISPUTED Pranles — the yellow light with a turning blue beam 21 July 1979 · Pranles, near Les Ollières-sur-Eyrieux, Ardèche UNRESOLVED Val Johnson — deputy's patrol car struck by a light 27 August 1979 · Near Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota DISPUTED Dechmont Law — Robert Taylor 9 November 1979 · Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian UNRESOLVED Manises — airliner diversion & Mirage intercept 11 November 1979 · Over Ibiza → Valencia-Manises Airport, Spain DISPUTED Cergy-Pontoise “abduction” (hoax) 26 November 1979 · Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France EXPLAINED
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