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)
Birmingham (UK/England) · United Kingdom
what's that a moveing star?
Auxvasse · MO, USA
Auxvasse MO. silver disk shaped object arox. 300 ft in diameter aprox 100 ft off the ground rotating, no sound.
Hamburg · NY, USA
Observed bright white sphere hovering over vehicle
Oroville · CA, USA
Saw 2 glowing spheres going from West to East for about two minutes.
Bethel · CT, USA
light seperated into four parts and flew away at right angles
Ladue · MO, USA
black triangle with rounded corners 1980 St.Louis
Greeneville · TN, USA
3 witnesses see 2 large triangularobjects hovering about 100 feet inair. No sound. Objects shoot laserbeam toward one another-disappear
Port Wentworth · GA, USA
Object above tree in Port Wentworth , Ga
Gray · GA, USA
low hovering large flat object with very loud roaring sound.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) · Argentina
Buenos Aires triangle
Birmingham · AL, USA
three lights that formed a triangle in the night sky
Newport · AR, USA
A Flash of light from inside the cab of the truck.
Houston/San Antonia (between) · TX, USA
This is something that has stayed on my mind for 30 years. I was traveling on a Sun night from Houston, TX on my way back to Fort Sam H
Willard · OH, USA
The vertical lights that were not like any machinery made it questionable.
Marlow Heights · MD, USA
Appeared to be a star moving at great speed, breaking up, disappearing then reappearing in another location. Very erratic behavior.
Honduras · Honduras
I don't know who to contact. I saw 2 lights that I thought were some kind of giant Honduran fireflies, except they didn't blink. I
Morganton · NC, USA
Orange light splits into three pieces
Algonquin · IL, USA
As a teenager I saw a flying saucer do triangular patterns then disappear. It had lights and was spinning
Carnation · WA, USA
Place of occurrence: Carnation, WA. I'm not exactly sure of the year, maybe 1979 or 1980, and I remember my grandfather and I were stan
Warminster · PA, USA
Saw disk object wiht pulsing lights move at supersonic speed with no sound.
Southmountain (Canada) · ON, Canada
A round Ball OF Light 20 feet above ground 2 field lenghts away from my car
France (massif maures southern) · France
vertically ascending bright light going on and off,that at 2 miles high remains on and shoots up int the stars very very very fast
Lake Forest · IL, USA
June 1980
Darien · IL, USA
I thought at first it might be a helecoper, but there was no sound coming from it, nothing
Oklahoma City · OK, USA
Man repts. football-shaped obj., 30-40' long on N side of I-240. "Skin" appeared to " rotate" around 2 axes (!).