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)
Mercedes · TX, USA
In the way to school
Los Gatos · CA, USA
Entering into dusk witnessed a small round object coming North from the South. Object darted accross the sky and finally hovered about
West Palm Beach · FL, USA
UFO SIGHTING 1986
Portsmouth · VA, USA
squarelike object with a light
Panama · Panama
my les than normal experience as a child with a floating white smokey orb
Nevada (on highway · northbound), NV, USA
ROUND ,SPHERICAL ,TRIANGLES INSIDE OR AROUND IT WITH A SHUTTER ,;CHANGES COLORS
Victor · MT, USA
Just below the mountain top a light appeared. After a few seconds the light became larger slowly came east 15ft off the ground then cli
Crestwood · KY, USA
A faint beam of white light that seemed to come from a star or star-like object.
Varhaug (Norway) · Norway
Black Triangular slow flying object strait overhead blocking out the stars
South Yarmouth · MA, USA
white,luminous, circular object encircled with colored lights hovering above neighbors house for over 2 hours.
Lido Beach · NY, USA
The Object was above our car hovering. We didn't see it move towards us ...it was just there in an instance.
NASA · FL, USA
White Objects flying during the Space Shuttle Challenger 1/28/1986
Clarkton · NC, USA
Low flying, large cigar shaped craft close-up view the day of the Challenger disaster in 1986.
Old Fort · NC, USA
Orange rectangle.
Victor · MT, USA
large light and expelled 2 smaller round lights,2 sm descended to the ground the large moved slow over the barn and moved out into the
Maracaibo (outside of) (Venezuela) · Venezuela
Witnesses in Maracaibo, Venezuela reported family members and nearby vegetation were injured, possibly burned, by a brightly lit, humming object in October 1986.
Hazard · KY, USA
triangle shaped object
Monterey Bay Area · CA, USA
Silver-grey balloon clusters at very high altitude, at high speed
Walden · NY, USA
A brief account of the sighting that I hadon the evening of Tuesday, 3 December 1985,in Walden, NY.
Manaus-Amazonas (Brazil) · AL, Brazil
this case happen to me and my brother my english is not so good but i will try to tell you ,what happen that night. I was sleeping in
Auburn · AL, USA
Bright lighted object 30 feet above me, rose, sped away, emitted shower of sparks in distance
Savannah (southeast of) · GA, USA
Stadium sized triangular craft with red blue and green lights hovered over trees in silence on Ga. night 1985 /6
Buckner · MO, USA
I saw a space object in December of 1985 near Buckner, Missouri.
Vallejo · CA, USA
A shaped object with amber/organge lights, not flashing moving very slowly without noise. Almost hovering
West Yarmouth · MA, USA
Unmoving object, diamond shaped with lights on top, bottom and around center.