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)
Homer · LA, USA
bright light becoming near and more intense in rear veiw window of car
Irvine · CA, USA
Dot of light making imposable turn
Richardson · TX, USA
My date, Sam, and me were lying on a blanket discussing outer space and how we would get to other planets. We were doing some serious
Allenspark · CO, USA
Bright white light moves in U-pattern, then fades out.
Wind Lake · WI, USA
Disk hovering over field
Houston · TX, USA
Sphere, No lights, moving through neighborhoods above tree tops, over busy streets in Houston in 1980.
Dallas · TX, USA
Strange shape shifting craft of pure light energy.
Manchester · NH, USA
A red glowing sphere stopped and watched me.
Boonville · CA, USA
Boonville, Ca. 10/1980: just after dark, two orange glowing spheres, 200 feet from ground, 15 ft diam., 40 ft apart, 10 mph
Columbus · OH, USA
12-15 white fireballs traveling north to south ashing off as they flew by, the episode lasted 10-15 minutes over rural Columbus, OH.
Guntersville · AL, USA
The date and time is not exact. I was the shift supervisor at a chemical plant located on the banks of the Tennessee River. Mountains
Port Townsend · WA, USA
3 silver, shiny, cigar-shaped craft over Discovery Bay, WA, hovered, accelerated at incredible rate, and disappeared.
Sandy · UT, USA
Unidentified flying objects Investigations
Avon · CT, USA
A huge lit-up craft various colors of lights at tree top level traveling at a very slow speed (10 mph) over our heads .
National Forest · CO, USA
A green pencil-like object appeared from behind one hill only to disappear behind another. From - Fri Aug 21 11:38:01 1998 Received: fr
Denham Springs · LA, USA
Flying object observed
Boonville · CA, USA
digital rendering of sighting linked to 10/1980 "Boonville, Ca. 10/1980: just after dark, two orange glowing spheres, 200 feet from gro
Jonesport · ME, USA
green gas sorta cloud very slow south to movement started from horison not much to say about it but it was witness at the same time by
Bald Knob · AR, USA
ORANGE TRIANGULAR CRAFT,NO NOISE
Corpus Christi (Maliki Beach) · TX, USA
METALIC RED PORTHOLES HOVERED OFFSHORE AT DUSK SLOWLY DRIFTED SOUTH INTO CLOUDS
Dallas · TX, USA
We were in a boat fishing at Lake Ray Hubbard, heading toward north end of lake. We noticed an object hovering just above a water tower
Winchester · MA, USA
Huge rectangular craft with missing time
Pepper Pike · OH, USA
Our Close Encounter with a saucer shape disc in Northeast Ohio in 1980.
Detroit · MI, USA
Triangle shape object with flashings lights
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
There were "two white lights, huge in size” like "two flares in [the] sky hovering," with "dogs howling" at the same time of sighting.