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)
Stokesdale · NC, USA
Cigar Shaped Object 30 feet above us glides over bus stop
Durham · NC, USA
Big as a house & made no sound
Humboldt · TN, USA
I SAW a saucer shaped space craft come right over the top of my house within throwing distance!
Pensacola · FL, USA
Huge Saucer over Pensacola Pass.
Sierra Vista/Ft. Huachuca · AZ, USA
Wedge over Southern Arizona in 1981 blacks out sky
Edmond · OK, USA
Bright light traversed night sky then sped off at extreme speed. ((anonymous report))
Philippines · Philippines
I was looking on the sky two lights moving slowly its look like they seeking each other.
Edmond · OK, USA
Bright light traversed the sky then sped off at extreme speed. ((anonymous report))
Arenzville · IL, USA
Orange, house-shaped craft
Tomberlin · AR, USA
bright light hoovering along car at slow speed on foggy nite
Milwaukie · OR, USA
Large blueish green disc shaped craft stopped and hovered
Mohave Desert · CA, USA
It was on the day of the first landing of the space shuttle Columbia that I saw eight objects in the western sky
Berlin Center · OH, USA
An apparrent airplane, stopped, then changed direction & descended toward us, came within 40'.
Burbank · CA, USA
very black blimp no one could see
Long Beach · CA, USA
V-formaton of 3 large crafts
Citrus Heights · CA, USA
Used tire floating up into clouds.
Rochester · NH, USA
I saw a shooting star that stopped: lights of red, blue, green began flickering and it lowered down below treeline, then darkness.
Bridgewater · MA, USA
I'm sorry I am so late in reporting this. My husband and I rarely talked about it to each other after the incident, which was short in
Petaluma · CA, USA
Around the outside edge of the dark red grid, there was a shimmering orange aura
LA · USA
Diamond shaped object, with accompanying lights (of all colors) and under girding.
Northfield · MA, USA
Triangle object seen following the Connecticut River
McKinleyville · CA, USA
Large (house-sized), slow moving (45-60 mph), low altitude (< 2,000') meteor witnessed spring 1981 N. CA.
Campbell · CA, USA
Multiple sighting in Campbell CA of spacecraft in detail
Needles · CA, USA
Approximently early 1980- 1981 I was climbing the mountains west Needles CA. I heard over a CB radio that a ball of fire was coming ac
Pompano Beach · FL, USA
Saw something that looked like a billiard rack silently moving south to north.