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)
Saline Valley · CA, USA
group of objects
Harrison · AR, USA
Numerous Lifelong Sightings.
Mexico (Pacific Ocean) · Mexico
WE WERE COMMERCIAL NET FISHING SWORDFISH ABOUT 80 MILES INTO MEXICO ABOUT 120 MILES OF SHORE JUST SOUTH OF SAN DEIGO THE NET IS A MILE
Louisville · KY, USA
UFO Sighted Thursday June 30, 1988 at about 23:15 N of Elizabethtown and S of Louiseville on I-65 close to State Park
Becej (Serbia) · Serbia
I was a kid and had a window at my bed and often i would stare out the window at night from the bed and look at the stars until i fell
Bridgeport · CT, USA
Large triangular with lights in a "V" shape.
Meppel (Netherlands) · DC, Netherlands
Orange, triangular cone, like a sharp edged shuttle with flat triangular surfaces, moving, stopping and accelerating quickly.
Cleveland · OH, USA
THREE ROUND SILVER CIRCLES, THEY JUST HUNG IN THE AIR, THEY STAYED STILL FOR A COUPLE OF MIN THEN DISAPPEARED. THE THREE SILVER CIRCLE
Ray Center · MI, USA
I would be the most famous person in the world if I had only had a camera!
Houston · TX, USA
We saw a lsilent ight in the sky that disappeard as soon as we noticed.
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
A “group of four lights appeared in the sky, stopped dead still, then went back the way they came and shot straight up in the sky."
Cambridge (Canada) · ON, Canada
Orange sphere flew over head that was completely silent, and made two perfect 90 degree turns
Allison Park · PA, USA
glowing red shapeshifting ball sighted early morning
Edgewood · MD, USA
Edgewood, MD boy sees a chrome sphere move laterally across sky and change directions near the Edgewood Arsenal Army base.
Kendallville · IN, USA
Huge, black, triangular shaped craft. Made no sound & had mercurial lights that changed color.
Pacific Ocean · WA, lat 2 deg 48 min N 124 deg W
what are those two 5-6 ft spheres floating on the water ?
Chicago · IL, USA
V shaped tubular object .
Wheeler · TX, USA
A star type bright light slowly moved by and disapeared in to the distance.The same object was seen 3 times in the same week.
Ada · MN, USA
Cigar shaped craft over farmland
Rochester Hills · MI, USA
I'm 78 yrs old and haven't talked about this to very many people over the years. In 1988, on a sunny Easter day at 2:00 PM ,I was sitti
Brunswick · ME, USA
Navy aircraft completely illuminated by moving, elevated bright green light hovering over airfield
Akron · OH, USA
1 light split into 3,hovered, then flew away
Pleasant Hill · MO, USA
UFO over Pleasant Hill
Wasilla · AK, USA
the object was large moving just above the treeline it had clear white lights not sure if it made a noise because i was in doors
Bremerton · WA, USA
Disc was flying about 50 yards off the wingtip of an airliner that had just left Seatac airport.