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)
Beaverton · OR, USA
DAYTIME SIGHTING long, black, no features, like a pencil, no sound. no lights.
San Jose · CA, USA
Town and Country Shopping Center, dic shaped craft at about 20feet above the ground...around 4:30PM on a Sunday.
Clark County (rural) · KY, USA
Driving on I-64 we realized that the terrain wasn't right and began checking mile markers which confirmed we had somehow missed both M
Beverly Shores · IN, USA
Three glowing green orbs traveling westbound at approximately 70-80 MPH on US 20 near Furnaceville.
Carmel · NY, USA
Diffuse white light morphs to large circle 100 ft dia.or possibly orb of many indescribable colors, shrinks to 25 ft dia., shoots off.
Detroit/Warm Springs (between · Cascade Mts.), OR, USA
Single small vehicle left main body and followed us in a hovering helicopter fashion for over 45 minutes while we were walking from the
Boulder · CO, USA
3 slow moving disks over south Boulder.
Sherwood · OR, USA
Two flying wings (?) over Sherwood, OR night sky.
West Elk Wilderness Area · CO, USA
Bright round ball. several thousand MPH leveled off to one thousand MPH zig zaged through dense timber, no sound no projected light
Weed · CA, USA
10/31/1981 Saucer Shaped UFO hovering between the moutain Mt. Shasta and the city of Mt. Shasta California
Antioch · CA, USA
Rectangle Over Antioch
Jacksonveil · NC, USA
GUARD DUTY CAMP LAJUNE HUGE WHITE SPHERE OVER WOODS THEN GREEN &BLUE STAYED TILL DAWN DISAPERED ASIT GOT LIGHT BUT THEY WERE STILL THER
Diamond · MO, USA
UFO sighting/Time Travel?/Visitors?
Fairburn · GA, USA
UFO sighting in Fairburn, GA around the fall of the year.
Port Jervis · NY, USA
While walking on route 209 south, 2 miles north of Port Jervis, ny, I noticed a dull red light far in the distance. At first sighting,
Raynham · MA, USA
There was a silver disk shaped object silently suspended in mid air positioned at a downward slant ot very far from the treeline.
Solomon · KS, USA
it was scary, and i was 5!
Moca (Puerto Rico) · Puerto Rico
Huge triangle with three smaller saucers at the angles and a command station in the center, lingers above farm house for 15 minutes.
Henderson · NC, USA
I was leaving my job at the hospital in 1981. I had a newborn son and my husband was with him at my home in Henderson NC.I was driving
Lilburn · GA, USA
I was coming home from my friends house,I stopped to rest on the side of the road near a well known trail leading into some woods. I no
Georgetown · SC, USA
Triangular shape over Georgetown, early 1980's
Bryan · TX, USA
cant describe what I saw? And when I try something deep inside tells me not to!!! sorry.....
Ft. Hauchuca · AZ, USA
2 silver cigar shaped objects N. of Fort Huachuca sometime in '81 or '82. Time of year I'm not sure
Trenton · MO, USA
Soundless rectangle Trenton, Missouri.
Star Junction · PA, USA
Crafts seen by many in PA media covers