-   **3 January, 10 PM:** Observation by Commander [Michel
    Asseline](AsselineMichel.html) on the Air France New York-Paris flight,
    south of Jersey Island.


-   **4 January:** [Michel Asseline](AsselineMichel.html) discovers a news article about the landing of a UFO which could be the one from his observation[ \[VSD 9808 H, p. 31\]]{.source}.

    
-  **January 5th :** Observation at Browstone (Illinois). See images/1975-01-05.jpg.


-   **January 20-22**: At the Annual AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Claude Poher and Jacques Vallée present [\[Poher-Vallee 1975\]]{.source} *Basic patterns in UFO observations*, a publication on the fundamental characteristics of the UFO phenomenon, which represents the culmination of the scientific and [statistical](Statistiques.html) approach to the UFO phenomenon.


-   **January 25th to February 5th:** A small group of people --- including
    ufologists --- observe various phenomena multiple times in a wooded
    area near Der-Chantecoq lake (near Eclaron, in Haute-Marne). Light
    balls on the water, motionless then dancing a ballet and seeming to
    react to the reactions of the witnesses; light balls on the ground
    or at high altitude; shape appearing from afar like a military
    target (circle on rectangle) but up close like a solid in slow
    rotation.


-   **March 8th, 5:40 PM:** [Billy Meier](MeierEduardAlbert.html) takes this photograph in Ober-Sadelegg Switzerland.


-   **11 March, 10 PM:** In the Val d'Oise and the entire Paris region, a series of unexplained aerial explosions were heard. [\[*Gazette du Val d'Oise,* 16 July 1997\]]{.source}

- **March 18**


-   **9 h 06 :** [Billy Meier](MeierEduardAlbert.html) takes this photograph of the supposed "Semjase" device at Winkelriet Switzerland.


-   **March 18:** Photo taken in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada). See images/1975-04-18.gif.

-  **May 11th, 09:00:** Photo taken in Chiba (Japan). See images/1975-05-11.jpg.


-   **April 25th, 8:51 PM:** At Roissy (Val d'Oise), observation of a round object in transit between the South and the North, until Orly. [ \[*Gazette du Val d'Oise,* July 16th 1997\]]{.source}


-   **May 31:** Creation of the [ESA](orgsScientifiques.html#ESA).


-   **June 8:** Departure of the *Venera 9*, which will take photographs of the surface of [Venus](Venus.html).


-   **June 10:** Publication of the Report [Rockfeller](RockefellerDavid.html).


-   **July 12, 10:30am:** [Billy Meier](MeierEduardAlbert.html) takes these photographs of the alleged "Semjase" device at Berg-Rumilkon Switzerland.


-   **July 17:** 1st docking between a Soviet vessel and an American vessel, on the occasion of the *Soyouz-Apollo* mission.


-   **July 31st:** At Loxton (South Africa)[ZA.html], Danie Van Graan approaches what he first believes to be a caravan in his field, but it has no wheels. He hears a buzzing and sees 4 strange occupants in the object. A beam of light strikes him, he is disoriented. The intensity of the sound increases, and the object takes off quickly. Tracks are discovered on the ground, as well as a grey powder; the vegetation is affected.


-   Photo taken in Switzerland. See images/1975.gif.

- **August**

- Beginning of a series of observations, where all the American bases in the North and some nearby Canadian bases will be visited by flying objects. Documents from [NORAD](NORAD.html), declassified in the 1980s in accordance with the [FOIA](glossair.html#FOIA), attest to this activity. Civilian observations confirm and complete a surprising picture.


-   **August 18th, 10am:** Meeting in Fort Morgan (Colorado) at the Civil Defense offices regarding cattle mutilations.


-   **August 20:** Departure of *Vicking 1* to Mars.

-   **August 29, 6:25 AM:** In France, a French gamekeeper
    spotted a green cigar: At 6:25 AM, it was normally daylight and
    the weather was slightly foggy, I was parking my moped against a
    slope and my gaze was automatically directed towards the farm
    (\...). Suddenly I saw a strange craft hovering vertically above
    this house and about 50 m in altitude. This craft was coming in
    my direction. It had the shape of a shell, its color was very
    light green, when it passed in front of me the craft dazzled me
    as if looking directly at the sun. On its passage it left a
    trail that could be a kind of condensation and not smoke. It
    emitted absolutely no sound, its passage probably lasted only
    half a second. Its speed seemed slightly higher than the majority
    of meteors that can be commonly observed in space (\...). It
    seemed to me that the cylindrical craft at the back measured 2 m
    in diameter and about 3 m in length. It apparently had no
    windows or other visible openings. There were also no fins or
    other superstructure on this craft. The back was flat and light
    green in color as well as the entire body in the shape of a
    shell [\[J.-C. Bourret, Le Nouveau Défi des OVNI, ed. France
    Empire, 1977, p. 196\]]{.source}.


-   **August 27:** Launch of the 2nd Symphonie satellite.


-   **9 September:** Departure of *Vicking 2* to Mars.


-   **September 23rd, 11 PM:** Observation of Colonel [Jack Krine](KrineJack.html) during a night training mission in the Cambrai region.

- **October**


-   Meeting of [David Stephens](temoins.html#StephensDavid) in Norway (Maine).


-   **October 7:** [Eric Gairy](GairyEric.html) speaks at the 30th session of the [UN](UN.html) General Assembly.


-   **9 October:** Launch of the 1st N-1 rocket by Japan.


-   **October 16:** Nine sightings are reported to [NORAD](NORAD.html) in the night at Great Falls (Montana).


-   **October 22:** 1st photo of the surface of [Venus](Venus.html) by *Venera 9*.


-   **October 27th, 8 PM:** A buzzing UFO, emitting a white stroboscopic light and orange and reddish lights, approaches within 300 m of a nuclear weapons warehouse of the Loring Air Force Base (Maine). During the 90 minutes that the UFO is visiting, it is tracked by radar.


-   **October 29:** The radar at Loring Base (Maine) detects
    an unknown heading once again towards the weapons depot.
    A helicopter fails in its attempt to make visual contact with the UFO.


-   **October 30:** A UFO is spotted on 3 different occasions
    but a helicopter sent to intercept it cannot make contact with it.


-   **October 31:** As the day before, UFOs fly in formation above a weapons warehouse of the [USAF](USAF.html) base in Wirtsmith (Michigan). An aircraft takes off to intercept them but also fails to make contact.


-   **November 5th, 6 PM:** Abduction of [Travis Walton](temoins.html#WaltonTravis).


-   **November 7-10:** A large number of UFOs conduct reconnaissance at the [USAF](USAF.html) base in Malmstrom (Montana), the [ICBM](ICBM.html) launch sites in the same state, and also visit the Air Force base in Minot (North Dakota).


-   **November 8:** 2 F-106 jets from the [USAF](USAF.html) base in Great Falls (Montana) take off in pursuit of 7 UFOs flying at an altitude between 2850 and 4650 m. But the UFOs accelerate and decelerate quickly, able to go from 5.6 km/h to 275 km/h and, in doing so, become invisible.


- It is formally the responsibility of the gendarmerie to systematically collect reports of UFO sightings.