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UAP, 1980s37 stories

The Brooklyn Bridge Abduction of Linda Cortile
November 30, 1989 · Lower East Side, Manhattan, near the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, New York
UAP · Disc / saucer · 47 sources
17Thinly documented
The Belgian UFO Wave
November 29, 1989 · Eupen and the Hautes Fagnes, Liège province, later across Wallonia
UAP · Triangle · 62 sources
59Partially documented
Voronezh UFO Incident
September 27, 1989 · Yuzhny Park (Kozly park), Mashmet area, left bank, Voronezh
UAP · Sphere · 60 sources
43Partially documented
Kapustin Yar Missile Base Sighting from the KGB Blue Folder
July 28, 1989 · Two Soviet Army units 30 and 45 km north-east of Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, USSR
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
26Thinly documented
The Kalahari UFO Crash Hoax
May 7, 1989 · Kalahari Desert, about 80 km north of the South Africa-Botswana border
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
6Thinly documented
Bob Lazar and the S-4 Claims
March 1989 · Papoose Lake and the Groom Lake road, near Area 51, Lincoln County, Nevada
UAP · Disc / saucer · 92 sources
36Partially documented
The Fyffe, Alabama Triangle Sightings
c. 1989 · Fyffe, Sand Mountain, DeKalb County, Alabama
UAP · Triangle · 23 sources
29Thinly documented
The Cabo Rojo Incident: F-14 Jets Vanish Near a Giant Triangle
December 28, 1988 · Betances, Cabo Rojo, near Sierra Bermeja and Laguna Cartagena, Puerto Rico
UAP · Triangle · 30 sources
21Thinly documented
The Knowles Family Nullarbor Encounter
January 20, 1988 · Eyre Highway, about 40 km west of the Mundrabilla Roadhouse, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia
UAP · Egg · 26 sources
26Thinly documented
The Ilkley Moor Alien Photograph (Philip Spencer)
December 1, 1987 · Ilkley Moor (Rombalds Moor), between Ilkley and East Morton, West Yorkshire
UAP · Being / humanoid · 17 sources · 1 photos
9Thinly documented
The Gulf Breeze Sightings
November 11, 1987 · Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa County, Florida
UAP · Other · 58 sources
36Partially documented
The Wytheville UFO Wave
October 7, 1987 · Wytheville and Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia
UAP · Other · 35 sources
39Partially documented
UFO nad Vranovem: the Mi-24 Pursuit over the Vranov Reservoir
July 12, 1987 · Vranov Reservoir, Vranov nad Dyjí, Znojmo District, South Moravia, Czechoslovakia
UAP · Cigar · 31 sources
33Partially documented
Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: The Alaska Mothership
November 17, 1986 · Interior Alaska, between Fort Yukon, Fairbanks and Talkeetna
UAP · Other · 77 sources
55Partially documented
Brazil's Official Night of the UFOs (Noite Oficial dos OVNIs)
May 19, 1986 · São José dos Campos and airspace over São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goiás
UAP · Orb / light · 57 sources
60Well documented
The Dalnegorsk "Height 611" UFO Crash
January 29, 1986 · Height 611 (Izvestkovaya Hill), Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai
UAP · Sphere · 25 sources
31Partially documented
The Height 611 UFO Crash at Dalnegorsk
January 29, 1986 · Height 611 (Izvestkovaya Sopka), Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai
UAP · Sphere · 23 sources
34Partially documented
The Huella del Pajarillo Burn Mark, Capilla del Monte
c. 1986 · Cerro Pajarillo, near Capilla del Monte, Ischilín Department, Córdoba
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources · 3 photos
44Partially documented
Bulawayo Airport Radar-Visual Sighting and Hawk Jet Intercept
July 22, 1985 · Bulawayo Airport (now Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport), Bulawayo, with the intercept flown from Thornhill Air Force Base, Gweru
UAP · Other · 23 sources
48Partially documented
The CAAC Boeing 747 Encounter: Captain Wang Shuting's Light Over China
June 11, 1985 · Airspace over Gansu Province (near Lanzhou) or Inner Mongolia, China (unresolved)
UAP · Orb / light · 8 sources
14Thinly documented
The Minsk UFO: Two Aeroflot Tu-134 Crews Over Byelorussia, 1984
September 7, 1984 · Airspace near Minsk, Byelorussian SSR
UAP · Other · 18 sources
33Partially documented
The Hudson Valley UFO Wave (The Westchester Boomerang)
December 31, 1982 · Hudson Valley (Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties), New York
UAP · Boomerang / V · 64 sources · 1 photos
55Partially documented
The Ota Air Base Encounter: Júlio Miguel Guerra's Chipmunk Circled by a UFO
November 2, 1982 · Near Vila Verde dos Francos, west of the Serra de Montejunto, toward Torres Vedras (flight from Base Aérea N.º 2, Ota)
UAP · Sphere · 19 sources
26Thinly documented
L'Amarante: a silent object above a garden in Laxou
October 21, 1982 · Laxou, near Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine
UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources
29Thinly documented
The Byelokoroviche Missile Base Incident
October 4, 1982 · Usovo missile base, near Byelokoroviche (Belokorovichi), Zhytomyr Oblast
UAP · Disc / saucer · 26 sources
32Partially documented
VASP Flight 169: Captain Britto's Light over Brazil
February 8, 1982 · Airspace between Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro (Galeão), Brazil
UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources
67Well documented
The Hessdalen Lights
December 8, 1981 · Hessdalen valley, Holtålen Municipality, Trøndelag
UAP · Orb / light · 86 sources · 17 photos
72Well documented
The Hannah McRoberts Photograph, Vancouver Island (1981)
October 8, 1981 · Rest area near the Eve River bridge, about thirty miles north of Kelsey Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources · 4 photos
21Thinly documented
The 1981 Sky Spiral over Western China
July 24, 1981 · Southwest and northwest China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu, Guizhou and other provinces)
UAP · Other · 22 sources
38Partially documented
Vladimir Kovalyonok's Salyut 6 sighting
May 5, 1981 · Earth orbit aboard Salyut 6, over the area of South Africa moving towards the Indian Ocean
UAP · Other · 31 sources
18Thinly documented
Trans-en-Provence Case
January 8, 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var, Provence
UAP · Disc / saucer · 52 sources · 2 photos
48Partially documented
The Cash-Landrum Incident
December 29, 1980 · FM 1485 between New Caney and Huffman, near Dayton, Texas
UAP · Diamond · 80 sources
34Partially documented
Rendlesham Forest Incident
December 26, 1980 · Rendlesham Forest, between RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, England
UAP · Triangle · 69 sources
52Partially documented
The Todmorden Encounter: PC Alan Godfrey
November 28, 1980 · Burnley Road, Todmorden, Calderdale, West Yorkshire
UAP · Diamond · 39 sources
29Thinly documented
The Rosedale White-Acres Landing and the Empty Water Tank
September 30, 1980 · White-Acres cattle property, about 8 km from Rosedale, Central Gippsland, Victoria
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
20Thinly documented
Kirtland AFB Manzano Sightings and the Paul Bennewitz Affair
August 8, 1980 · Manzano Weapons Storage Area and Coyote Canyon, Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico
UAP · Disc / saucer · 29 sources
37Partially documented
La Joya / Arequipa UFO Incident
April 11, 1980 · La Joya Air Base (Mariano Melgar), La Joya District, Arequipa
UAP · Sphere · 35 sources
0Thinly documented

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