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)
Atlanta · GA, USA
Awakened by a orange glowing sphere floating in my bedroom in 1986.
Schertz · TX, USA
A large round object hovered over my house very late at night, with lights all around it, that faded as I looked.
Plainview · TX, USA
seeing an egg shape object in the daylight sky
Levuka (Fiji) · Fiji
HUGE WHITE ARROW IN THE BLUE SKY.
Freehold · NJ, USA
Triangular shapes objects hovering
Norway · Norway
Ex Royal Marine -I saw -I believe ?
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Huge black triangular shaped object, makes itself invisable. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Redcliffe (Australia) · Australia
It was late afternoon and I was about to set up for fishing on the beach it was completely blue sky no clouds I looked out towards More
Rio Grande (PuertoRico) · Puerto Rico
Me and a friend were fishing land crabs we saw two old men come out off bamboo stand when we got to were they were something took off.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
looking at night sky a large spaceship the size of football field passed overhead humming . A chill ran through me.
Flint · MI, USA
Meteor shower? Sonic boom? I don't know...
Greenbelt · MD, USA
Low, slow moving craft over NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Port Isable · TX, USA
THIS VERY TURE
Milpitas · CA, USA
A strange light in the sky appeared to "warp" out of sight.
Tawas City · MI, USA
Triangle craft with moving white light during meteor shower.
Memphis · TN, USA
Three lights in a triangular formation.
New Orleans · LA, USA
two lights circling each other in the night time sky then shooting away from each other in new orleans louisiana.
Jay · FL, USA
my daughter was born with an in-opertable brain tumor, we were visited late one night by three cloaked beings, when they entered our ro
Wiltshire (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Close Encounter With Three Disc Craft, February 1986
Brooksville · FL, USA
we were driving on aback road when we saw a space ship side ways and people in a field in a open cirls
Toronto (Canada) · ON, Canada
White glowing Cigar shapped object (not moving).
St. Louis · MO, USA
As I looked out from our DC-9 window I saw a huge aircraft.It had rows and rows of brightly lit windows.
Panama City · FL, USA
3 transparent Delta-wing shaped obects flying in formation over the Gulf of Mexico in 1986
Conroe · TX, USA
3 lights - red, yellow, and blue ufo seen in Conroe, TX
Louisville · KY, USA
Daylight Cigar shaped UFO sighting, with Witness!