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)
Lincoln (near) · IL, USA
I saw something in a cornfield very close to the road we were on. It was hovering about 30 feet up in the air.It was large and fairly q
Cedar Springs · MI, USA
No sounds, red flashing light on bottom, like knight rider.
Port Aransas · TX, USA
Casa Grande, Az
Hastings On Hudson · NY, USA
As I was walking down my dark driveway one evening in New York I looked up and saw this huge horseshoe shaped object just above the tre
Tallahassee · FL, USA
1988 Tallahassee, FLA V-shape object with white lights!
Crown Point · IN, USA
Sighting of disk-shape object, lost time, possible after-effects.
Southbridge · MA, USA
Hovering light that was stationary for minutes then moved away
Newquay (UK/England??) · United Kingdom
i live in newquay and on my balcony, me and my house mate and friend saw what we thought was a bright star but it had red,green and whi
Thomaston · GA, USA
MUFON/GEORGIA FOLLOW-UP REPORT: Low hovering 'ovoid' circle of lights
Marshville · NC, USA
UFO in clear sight of entire town, egg shape(on its side)many colored lights,memory tampering,nose bleed,abduction.
San Pedro · CA, USA
((HOAX??)) I was right under it when it pass over my head. 40ft. up.
Cherokee Village · AR, USA
MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP Report: This object passed directly overhead, diagonally, back to front, horizon
Lost Park (near Jefferson) · CO, USA
Bright red spheres with slow random movements in the same area of the sky reoccurring numerous evenings.
Niagara Falls (Canada) · ON, Canada
The summer of 1987 was the time the stars themselves came out to dance!
Viola · WI, USA
Blue orb, no shadow, no ambient light in rural farm land, moved slowly then down into the valley across from the farm
Celeste · TX, USA
I awoke to a loud vibrating noise and extremely bright light coming in through all the windows.
Ft. Campbell · KY, USA
Large UFO sighted moving slowly just north of Ft Campbell Army Airfield by military pilots and ATC.
Erie · PA, USA
probable pre-declassified stealth sighting
Abiline (Dyess AFB) · CA, USA
An oval, silver obj. was observed by many including my self while I was standing on the third floor stairs at Dyes AFB. This object ha
Frankford · MO, USA
An acrobatic light show in a star lite sky.
Gimli (Canada) · MB, Canada
Large object moving from one horizon to the next in 8 seconds, with elongated blinks.
Neenah · WI, USA
multiple ships with a boxcar ship in my neighborhood
Ciolpani (Romania) · Romania
Stationary object above Lake of Snagov.
Salina · KS, USA
Orb's flying threw the trailer house.
Nairobi (Kenya) · Kenya
It was a strange star shaped. Intially, I thought it was a planet, precisely I thought I was looking a Jupiter.