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)
Bellefontaine (St. Louis County) · MO, USA
Coming home from taking my son to scouts, noticed bright lights in the western sky. The lights were too bright, too close and too low t
Unadilla · NE, USA
Cigar shaped object flying above cirrus clouds
Pune (India) · India
The object took round around one fixed object at a very high speed. The fixed object might be the place from where these UFO's might be
Nashville · TN, USA
myself,and three other people i knew very well in school and growing up,were all standing around talking having fun kidding joking reme
Portland · OR, USA
multiple points of light hovering? over the west hills of Portland that could disapear one at a time while I was watching them
Malden · MO, USA
Big Orange Ball sitting in field behind house
Hinesville · GA, USA
It was the unusual movement that made all who were observing the object consider it a UFO.
Portland · OR, USA
multiple points of bright light seen above city apparently motionless then dissapeared one by one.
Holly · MI, USA
group of lihtts two circled real fast then they all shot strait up.gone
Largo · FL, USA
Very large UFO, irregular in shape, glowing red-orange craters, below cloud level, no noise, reported in paper as space debris.
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
Object over 100 feet in length, 6 square red lights in front, middle area dark, back section [had] 3 red flashing lights, low, silent.
Caribbean Sea · FL, USA
explosion and orbs in carribean waters
Atlantic Ocean (Canada/Iceland · midway between), Atlantic Ocean
Flashing lighted object observed by an E-3A AWACS crew over the Mid-Atlantic
Wampum · PA, USA
3 bright round objects hovering on side of road during bad snowstorm
McGrady (Wilkes County) · NC, USA
On a clear, starry winter evening I observed a very unusual object in the night sky, my grandfather also saw the object.
Sunbury · PA, USA
Memory of UFO sighting in Sunbury Pennsylvania during mid 80's
South Gate · CA, USA
Large Object hovering over house with flashing lights that were turning. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Hermiston · OR, USA
Me and my buddies were out camping, when we heard a muffled bang. We looked up and there was three bright flashes of blue light, then 3
Gettysburg · PA, USA
Multiple times from 80's to 90's, I saw light at night over Gettysburg battlefield, made no sound moved like helicopter.
Cloverdale · CA, USA
A witness reported a circular object seen while driving southbound on Highway 101 near Asti, close to Cloverdale, California, in 1985, for about one minute.
Montgomery · AL, USA
Southeast toward Northwest, low, large, lighting up sky,red, with a tail which split off behind. May have entered Florida, crossed
Kennewick · WA, USA
Moving object viewed from Kennewick Washington
Emporium · PA, USA
three lights over emporium pa
Las Vegas in desert · NV, USA
In Dec. 1984, I was hiking in the Las Vegas desert. I saw what appeared to be a piece of cellophane like material.
Santiago (Chile) · Chile
First: One Object, Second: Few colorfull objects, Final: Again One object