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)
Toronto (Canada) · ON, Canada
yellowish sphere appears/disappears
Tocca · GA, USA
Three bright light in a triangle formation moving very rapidly across the sky
Capricorn Coast (Australia) · Australia
A super bright, sharp, red light travelled at supersonic speeds around a tropical storm cell, in Australia.
Honey Grove · TX, USA
UFO in weat feild - Honey Grove - Texas
Carrollton (6 miles west of · on Garrett Circle), GA, USA
For 10 minutes, moving from north to south 25 feet above the ground, moving at 1 to 2 miles an hour, a 150 ft tall, 30 ft wide vertical
Brandon (outside Jackson) · MS, USA
I lived in Crossgates on the north end of the lake I woke up suddenly, got up out of bed and looked out the glass doors. Just above tr
Edgartown · MA, USA
My fiance and I, both artist, were getting married August 12, 1984 and spending our honeymoon on Martha's Vineyard. About 11:00 the ni
Alvarado · TX, USA
Fireball in Alvarado
Hay Lakes (Canada) · AB, Canada
Large UFO hovering 50 feet above farm-house, in Alberta, witnessed by Police Officer.
North Platte · NE, USA
UFO follows train tracks
Jasper (rural part of) · FL, USA
Lights moving in a circular motion, but hovering without any SOUND!
Ruggles Beach/Huron · OH, USA
What I saw could not have been made on this earth.
Columbus · WI, USA
Mid day cigar shape citing while deer hunting
Williamstown · MA, USA
Don't want to divulge any information that might involve other witnesses of this event without their permission. Suffice to say that my
St. Charles · IL, USA
Object pulses in the red-blue-purple spectrum.
Waldport · OR, USA
Bright light of a fast moving craft frightened me in the night on the Oregon Coast.
Gilbertsville · KY, USA
This picture was taken by my mother, in approx 1984, at Kentucky Lake. I am the bigger child and the other two are my brother and siste
Chatsworth · CA, USA
Light approaches at high rate of speed and makes a ninety degree turn.
Acton · ME, USA
Silent, very large, one white headlight, red lights around edges
Holmes/Whaley Lake · NY, USA
Looking up towards the north,we saw a V shaped formation of lights. Maybe it was just one craft with a line of 8 to 11 lights in the sh
Augusta · GA, USA
We saw three round objects, hovering in a triangle formation that appeared to be on fire.
Chigwell Essex (UK/England) · United Kingdom
High Altitude RED fast moving (later violently manouvering) oval/ bean shaped object Essex UK
Houston · TX, USA
2 experience with unkown
Traverse City · MI, USA
translucent football seen over city airport
White Plains · NY, USA
Saw a hugh object in sky with lights intermittently placed not making any noise traveling north in the night sky.It had no real identif