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)
Magna · UT, USA
25' mirror ball traveling 60' up at 300 mph on a clear morning. passed about 100 feet from us .
Altoona · PA, USA
object that hovered above me in the night sky with multi colored lights going around it.
Santa Clara · CA, USA
Large round glowing circle size of a new moon
Beaver Damm · WI, USA
I saw craft hovering, then a cloud of smoke and then it was gone. I was a teenager iceing on Beaver Dam Lake.
Clarksburg · WV, USA
Large Disc hovering over a National Guard Armoy for 2 minutes then gone.
Tempe · AZ, USA
Unexplained light cast into otherwise dark area blasts out of sight.
Watson Lake (Canada) · YK, Canada
Prof. trucker sees 150' disc w/ "fluorescent orange" overtake him, stop. He shines light on it, calls w/ CB. Obj. rose, disappeared.
Bakersfield · CA, USA
I was driving a waivy road, not much lights. Suddenly a big path with gate entrancejust open about 30 feet in front of me. I made a com
Little Rock · AR, USA
This is not something I take lightly.
Bethel · CT, USA
Triangular lint formation over Bethel, CT.
Middletown · NY, USA
Rectangular object, 3 contiguous sections; the outer 2 sections a dark green, the inner a brighter lighter green.
New York City · NY, USA
Strange thing that changed into a pearl.
Weston · CT, USA
Dome shaped object in Weston, CT. Spring 1985
Stone Ridge · NY, USA
Huge, low flying, silent cube shaped object with lights on bottom travelling about 60 m.p.h. over Stone Ridge.
Chicago · IL, USA
i saw a u.f.o in chicago in a area called lincoln park it hoovered above us for about 5 minutes it was a circular object with flashing
Nova · OH, USA
Triangle-shaped object
Granville Summit (West Franklin) · PA, USA
Flat saucer like object rises out of a pond, turns on edge and disappears.
Austin (near) · TX, USA
Glowing green "football" suddenly appears & then accelerates to nothingness
Sanford · NC, USA
A bright white light that travels 8 ft. off ground changes direction like humming bird was curious as we were of it as it was of us.
San Francisco · CA, USA
Redball of light flew sideways in front of window, Mom broth. and I turned and stared. coverded with light knocked us out.
Dequincy · LA, USA
Children from small town school see object over town over twenty years ago. It doesn't end there.
Palmerola Air Base (Honduras) · Honduras
June 19, 2019 Aloha reader! Re: My UFO Experience Dear sir/ma’am, In March of 1985, I was a 20 year-old active-duty medic in the army.
Palmerola Air Base (Honduras) · Honduras
Anomolous entity crosses the night's sky @speed.
Wichita · KS, USA
I was lying on my pool deck when out of my peripheral vision I saw three lights, about the orange glow of a cigarette and maybe 1ft. di
Woodbridge · VA, USA
Lights over Northern VA. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))