UFO Sightings in the 1980s
2,718 UFO sightings reported during the 1980s, peaking in 1989 (333 reports); most often described as disk.
- Total sightings
- 2,718
- Span
- 1980–1989
- Peak year
- 1989 (333 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Disk
1980–1989 · peak 1989 (333 reports)
Methuen · MA, USA
The siting is old, but worth reporting. Much evidence of all types.
Falun (Sweden) · Sweden
Bright, disc-shaped glowing noiseless object making u turn and disappering slowly upwards leaving smoke or fog under it.
Mumford · NY, USA
Saw neon orange oval craft hovering 3 to 4 ft above road.
Ottawa (west of) (Canada) · ON, Canada
Procession of very large, multi-coloured craft.
Union · SC, USA
Saucer like craft followed me home from work and hovered over our home while my wife and I watched..
St. Charles · MO, USA
I saw a small, oval shaped craft in St. Charles, Missouri during the summer of 1988.
Walker Valley(Pine Bush) · NY, USA
Strange creatures in the woods near UFO hot spots
Kingston (north of) (Canada) · ON, Canada
Multi-coloured large UFO seen low on horizon, Ontario, 1988
Highlands · NC, USA
we were driving down the main st. of town.it was huge! drifting over a building at one end of town the lights in town dimmed then went
Mendham · NJ, USA
I saw an orange fireball pass through the woods and cross the road ahead of me
Sutcliff · NV, USA
Seemingly impossible reverse
Azucena · LA, USA
Huge ship, with colored lights placed in this diamond-shaped pattern on its underside, one light protruding from the center
Ceres · CA, USA
Five small triangular craft hovering then moving slowly above Ceres, CA.
Seabrook · NH, USA
6 lighted triangles floating independently in a line moving slowly
West Milford (Upper Greenwood Lake) · NJ, USA
Two white orbs of light flew into the sky, stopped for a few minutes, then flew away in a very quick hyper speed together.
Rosemere (Canada) · QC, Canada
Charbonneau Park, Rosemere, PQ. Diamond shaped object hovered directly over Milles Illes River to the right of me.
Buchanan · NY, USA
UFO over nuclear reactor- 14 helicopters around it
Dudley (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Triangular craft flies very low over Dudley UK
Algonquin Park (Canada) · ON, Canada
6 objects that appeared to break off or seperate from eachother in a swirling clockwise fashion
Harvey · MI, USA
Very large dual disk saucer ,counter rotating hovering and finally submerging into lake superior about 1/2 mile offshore.
Splendora · TX, USA
my friend and i witnessed a reddish-orange sphere in the sky. it disappeared and a few minutes later the light went over with helicopt
Porterville · CA, USA
lost time
Clayton · NC, USA
Sphere shaped object about the size of a water tower, spinning rapidly.
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
sphere shaped object with rainbow colors surrounding it.
Farmington · NM, USA
Slow moving yellow/orange colored lights above Crouch Mesa