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)
Ridgefield · WA, USA
A bright light orb, flies in a Z pattern.
San Andreas · CA, USA
Lost time very strange.Sense of everything was O.K.
Hardwick · VT, USA
The craft passed over us very slowly making no sound about 30 ft above the car we sat in.
Edmonton (Canada) · AB, Canada
My cousins and I saw a flying disk (larger than a plane length grey in color) in the sky above us. ((anonymous report))
Hamburg · NY, USA
Triangular UFO sends probes into Lake Erie
Moline · IL, USA
The object moved up and down and in a zig-zag formation and was round.
Miami · FL, USA
Certain things happen to you in your life that you never forget and this is why you know they are real the rest of your life.
Buffalo · NY, USA
I will never forget the summer of 1980. I was in my back yard with my parents. Our neighbors were there too. We noticed a oval shaped o
Conroe · TX, USA
A speeding craft and several lost hours
Valencia · CA, USA
Although this sighting occurred 22 years ago, it is an experience my wife and I cannot forget and considerably a closer experience that
Omaha · NE, USA
Very fast moving object!!!!!!!!
Fort Mill · SC, USA
I saw 3 separate red lights flying together-went in a semicircle then went up at the same speed and disappeared.
Salt Lake City · UT, USA
Bright starlike object over oil refinery in SLC zig zag over mountainside & went straight up at high speed
Fleetville · PA, USA
seeing this hovering there with no sound and moving away so quickly
Seattle · WA, USA
Cylinder UFO Sighted in Seattle, Washington
Camden · NJ, USA
I remember being at a friend's house then running home after a hail storm. Behind me I saw three triangles. ((anonymous report))
Doboj · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Two lights on the cloudy sky quickly moving and changing directions.
North Platte · NE, USA
Massive Pitch Black boulder shaped and jagged edges totally silent zoomed over my window of view at thirty to forthy thousand ft.
Athens · OH, USA
It was the largest thing I've ever saw. Disc shaped with what now I would call blue white light coming from it.
Benton Harbor · MI, USA
Very large, cigar shaped with round portholes on Lake Michigan's bluff.
Port Saint Lucie · FL, USA
Large triangular craft going east over the Atlantic Ocean.
Cleveland · OH, USA
Oval aircraft with red and yellow lights
Exeter · CA, USA
I had gone outside to get the mail. when walking back to the house, something caused me to look above the roof where I saw what i thoug
Exeter · CA, USA
I WAS THER 7/21/80 IN EXETER
Pecos · NM, USA
two florescent triangles, huge