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)
Marksville · LA, USA
I can Only Belive That This Was A Loading Of A UFO Into A Mother Ship.
Fremont · OH, USA
Silent, invisible craft, shoots blue beams of light on friend and I.
Surfside · FL, USA
A tumbling football shaped UFO with triangle windows of equal size with a different soft pastel colored light glowing in each window.
Clinton Township · MI, USA
disk about 40 feet in dia. a ring of round lights about the egdes. moved slowly, no sound, 75 feet of the ground
Lawrenceburg · KY, USA
I was living out in a rural area. I was getting ready for work. I heard a loud roaring like an airplane landing. I knew there wasn't
Swartz Creek · MI, USA
blazing sphere across the southern sky from 1982
San Antonio · TX, USA
My dog need to go out. and it was night. and i wanted to see the star. and the a like large light came close to me and I call my mother
New Haven · CT, USA
I, and another individual, observed a triangular-shaped, multi-colored, silent object slowly traverse the night sky of New Haven, Conn.
Weaverville · NC, USA
Bell shaped UFO with lights hovering without sound.
Fort McMurray (Canada) · AB, Canada
Beam of lights over trees in Canada
Gisborne (New Zealand) · New Zealand
gisborne nz 1982 wainui beach to sponge bay
Pearlington · MS, USA
Round light which was observed going into space with moves and silence that we have never seen before.
Pearlington · MS, USA
While fishing on the east pearl river which seperates la./ms. north of i10 near stennis we saw a white round light just above the trees
Thorton · CA, USA
differant colored lights swirling coming towards us a few feet above the ground.
Van Nuys · CA, USA
The space craft was flying at a 45 degree angle, approximatly a mile high, running parallel to Van Nuy Blvd on a clear day.
Snoqualmine · WA, USA
Observed a glowing orange object about the size of a dime at arms lenght. it was dark and raining. object looked to be only a few miles
Lake City · FL, USA
Light beamed over top and front of car
Smithfield · RI, USA
lights were flashing and I thought to myself "there are no towers here".
North Hudson · NY, USA
Full View of structure
Barton · VT, USA
Observed very large lighted object moving and then hovering above a hay field.
Hampton · VA, USA
BLACK BOOMERANG SHAPED, LARG E,NO SOUND,NOLIGHTS,TREE TOP LEVEL
Concord · OH, USA
Large, low craft that slowly approached over top of the trees, then hovered for 20 minutes.
Omaha · NE, USA
The saucer was flying high, with no sound and several lights. It passed overhead.
Narragansette · RI, USA
boomerang shaped object with 5 greenish lights growing in size and then turned and disappeared
Chillicothe · OH, USA
It was very large several football fields in area. almost would appear to be the shape of a low rise office building compleat with wind