Documented sightings from the 1980s, sorted from most recent.
Over 13,500 witnesses across Belgium reported massive silent triangular craft, confirmed by police, radar, and Belgian Air Force F-16 intercepts.
Bob Lazar claimed to have reverse-engineered alien propulsion at 'S-4' near Area 51, describing Element 115 fuel years before its synthesis.
Multiple witnesses in Voronezh reported a landed craft with tall beings and a robot, reported by official Soviet news agency TASS.
A glowing object lifted the Knowles family's car off the road on the Nullarbor Plain, leaving physical residue and damage analyzed by laboratories.
A former police officer photographed a small entity on Ilkley Moor before witnessing a craft depart; he later recalled an abduction under hypnosis.
Builder Ed Walters captured extensive UFO photographs in Gulf Breeze, FL while hundreds of independent witnesses reported sightings during a months-long wave.
Over 3,000 UFO reports flooded a small Virginia town beginning in 1987 after police officers spotted anomalous lights, creating one of the most intensely documented regional UFO waves in American history.
A JAL 747 captain encountered a walnut-shaped object 'twice the size of an aircraft carrier' over Alaska, tracked on radar; FAA evidence was confiscated by CIA.
Brazil scrambled five fighters to intercept 21 radar targets; the Air Minister held a press conference confirming 'we have technical evidence that something was there.'
A spherical object crashed on Height 611, leaving metallic fragments with anomalous compositions analyzed by Soviet scientists in laboratory settings.
Thousands reported a massive silent boomerang craft over the Hudson Valley for four years, documented in over 5,000 sighting reports.
A disc-shaped craft landed briefly on a French farm, leaving physical traces that were scientifically analyzed by the French government's official UFO research unit.
Recurring anomalous lights in a Norwegian valley since 1981 are monitored by a permanent scientific station, producing peer-reviewed research.
Three witnesses encountered a diamond-shaped craft with military helicopter escort; all suffered severe radiation-like injuries and sued the US government.
US Air Force personnel at a NATO base in England reported close encounters with a triangular craft over multiple nights, supported by physical evidence and an official memo.