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)
Redding · CA, USA
In September 1986 I was working for the National Park Service at the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area just west of Redding, CA. I
Wingdale · NY, USA
First obect traveling at high speed, second object stationary on mountain top observed for several minutes
New Ellington · SC, USA
While driving near a nuclear plant in South Carolina, my wife and i spotted a wingless, oblong shaped aircraft.
Owensboro · KY, USA
"Baton-shaped" object moving end-over-end in clear afternoon sky.
Colts Neck · NJ, USA
ET Sighting in Colts Neck NJ 1986, shooting objects across the sky.
Portsmouth · VA, USA
A trail of smoke
Tucson · AZ, USA
Paired blue halos ascend rapidly and silently.
Jasper · GA, USA
09/21/1986, Jasper, GA, triangular shape, a minute or two of duration, 3 feet above ground hovering
Fredericksburg · VA, USA
I saw 4 orange non flashing glowing lights in a traingle formation.
Lawton (Bankson Lake) · MI, USA
giant craft move slowly over lake It suddenly flashed brightly and went out. There was a wavy pattern behind it./eyes burned and watery
Page · AZ, USA
My Micro soft word is not responding and I do not know how to copy and paste. The year was 1986. It was August. I was in Page, Ari
Lubbock (outside city limits) · TX, USA
A BLACK 5 SIDED BOX 2FT SQUARE. FLOATED FROM A FARM HOUSE JUST OVER POWERLINES AND THEN BACK UNDER TO RESUME CORSE AND SLOW;Y FLOAT UP
Carolina (Puerto Rico) · PR, Puerto Rico
UFO comes out of El Yunque national Park
Marcellus · MI, USA
Aloha I am not the person who saw this craft, my brother did.He was coming home from work near dusk on the same day the folks saw
Hazard · KY, USA
triangle shaped object
Jamestown · OH, USA
It was silent,this is all true.
Bankson Lake/Lawton · MI, USA
Flashing light from silent hovering triangle over Bankson Lake causes wittnesses eyes to burn and water for days after sighting.
Tuolumne · CA, USA
Disk shaped, red lights circling the outside, flying on the treeline in the high country in the Sierra Nevada
Harrisonburg · LA, USA
Woman repts. witnessing dramatic disturbance in local reservoir caused by large "falling" object. Other witnesses in LA, NC (?).
Hutchinson · KS, USA
was taking a walk late at night and looked up in the sky and seen the strangest thing
Girard · OH, USA
Two Fiery Orbs Flown Over The House Tops From South to North
Plevna (Canada) · ON, Canada
08/10/86 UFO Sighting, Plevna, Ontario Canada, Black, Oval Shaped, Huvvered Motionless and Soundless 50' above tree tops.
Cluj (Romania) · Romania
Complex story/encounter - barnea cluj, 15 years later…
Russells Point · OH, USA
Triangle shaped 4 lights on bottom, made no sound, and moved really fast. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Inez · KY, USA
IF USAF HAS IT THEY HAVENT TOLD NO ONE !