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)
Brandon · FL, USA
One evening I looked 100' ahead and 100' high and saw what looked like stadium lights in a vacant field where there was no lighting wha
Roselle · IL, USA
fast moving Triangle with no sound and orange lights, stops hovers and speeds off.
Kenner · LA, USA
Gigantic circular object hovering, and then with progressive speed moved away and disappeared. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
New Britain Twp · PA, USA
Broad daylight gold colored flying object about the size of an airliner wing cqame close to my private airplane.
Ellington · CT, USA
Large triangular craft aprox. 200-300 ft wide , hovering approximately 150 ft above ground, and making little or no sound
Clinton · MS, USA
I was visiting a friend in Clinton ms. We walked outside in the driveway. Looked across the street. Then saw a ring of lights hovering
Bellside/Wishaw (UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom
large pink luminous globe ,bright flare close too moved at very low level silently
Williamsfield · IL, USA
A dull yellow light, low off the ground and no noise in January 1988
Cambridge · MA, USA
8 gliding craft in formation with a 9th "quantum jump" scout craft
Little Rock (northwest of) · AR, USA
On this evening I saw what I thought was a halogen search light from a hovering helicopter. Something about the light did not seem righ
Vandalia · MO, USA
The shape was a dark sharp triangle that made no noise and seemed transparent from directly below.
Kingsville · OH, USA
Large Flat Bottom Boat / Lite, Green Lights / Awesome
Stonewall · OK, USA
Strange light in the southern sky (Oklahoma, 1988).
Duluth · MN, USA
In the early morning on a winter day when I was younger, my friends and I had a sleep over, and one of my friends had a paper route, so
Sydney (NSW · Australia), Australia
UFO Encounter Close 26th January 1988 Pre Olympic Site Sydney 2000 .
Houston (17 miles W. of) · TX, USA
Witnesses reported a large unidentified object passing low, at treetop level, over a neighborhood near Houston, Texas, in 1988.
Marlborough · MA, USA
15 deg. above the horizon W sky, viewed from Framingham, MA. 3 times brighter than Venus. Stationary, slowly turned off in 2 sec..
Roosevelt · AZ, USA
One light, then 2 lights west of Roosevelt, AZ observed by 2 adults camping.
Newcastle (Australia) · Australia
stop up hill in car take photo of car and this was on film zoomed in on computer 19 years later and seen this looks like ufo over car w
Campton Hills · IL, USA
storage random exact same location lights in sky
Nurenburg (Germany) · Germany
missing time and location displacment
Lake Ozark · MO, USA
3 vehicles traveling NNE to SSW at 25 mph or less. Bright white light on fromt of each. Large lights on sides. Large green tail light.
Aliceville · AL, USA
Looked up in the dark sky and beyond the stars a window beyond the stars opened up from right to left and a very black background was 3
Mapelton · IL, USA
2 cone craft seen from porch
Nafpaktos (Greece) · Greece
A fire ball come from the sky