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)
Yorkeys Knob (North of Cairns) (QLD · Australia)), Australia
1 slow moving UFO rising from East (ocean) to West, on straight path, rectangular/cylindrical shape.
Laramie · WY, USA
UFO flew in a zig-zag motion from north to south in 10 seconds.
Chicopee · MA, USA
I heard a noise like thunder, went to the kitchen window and saw a black diamond-shaped craft hovering over the porch.
Exeter · NH, USA
saw what appeared as very bright star, somewhat orange, yellow which changed in intensity to very bright, from bright. was standing on
Wichita · KS, USA
Cigar-shaped, city-block long, silent, super-slow forward moving and descending, three red lights, blotted out the stars w/black.
Orinda · CA, USA
My house was on the golf course i became very uneasy and had butterflys in my stomache I picked up a firearm before the sighting a s
Bremen (Germany) · Germany
in the night of 13.january to 14.01.1980 at 21:50 at night my girlfraind and i have seen a very big UFO. first we are thinking it is a
Winchester · IL, USA
Object with red lights appeared nightly outside my upstairs bedroom window through the tree branches as if it wanted to communicate.
Toronto (Canada) · ON, Canada
Super-colossal circle of rotating lights perpendicular to the ground "sailing" over major city.
Albany · IL, USA
saucer over corn field on a cold winter night.
Pittsburgh (north of) · PA, USA
Two glowing disks seen over an Interstate highway in Western Pennsylvania.
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Spinning metallic diamonds over Super Bowl
Murphy/Arnold · CA, USA
Tracked by a UFO
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
A "cylinder [shaped] object” that had a “white light with a red dot” and was “over roof top” and then “went behind the houses."
Bellingham · WA, USA
UFO caused earthquakes?
Charlestown · RI, USA
A witness in Charlestown, Rhode Island reported a disk-shaped object seen for up to 10 minutes in 1980, with sightings noted during spring and summer months.
Danbury · CT, USA
I was driving south on rt 7 in Danbury when I saw a very large oval object stationary in the sky with lights moving consecutively aroun
Glennonville · MO, USA
Looked out my bedroom window to see an orange glowing ball circling around one of our family sheds, about 3-4 feet off the ground. From