Jan. 12, 1980; Huayana, Boliva

Night. In the Potosi Valley, Bolivia a man saw a lenticular-shaped object over him. The UFO projected a beam of light and formed a dome shaped luminous form on the ground, not far from the witness. He then experienced strange sensations when he walked inside the light dome. He was met there by a tall, blond-haired humanoid that had tanned skin and slanted eyes with a very prominent chin. The man claimed he had sensations of love and serenity projected to him by the tall humanoid. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, case # 1577, citing Luis Fernando Mostajo, The Missing Link, issue # 124).

Feb. 11, 1980; Botafuegos, Spain

Night. Five witnesses, including Rafael Tobajas, spotted a low flying whitish-orange luminous object lifting off from some nearby woods. Minutes later the object divided into three separate luminous sections, then re-united again into one luminous spot. Using a pair of binoculars, they watched the lighted object descend in a falling leaf motion. Near the ground two huge man-like silhouettes appeared in front of the lights. They were grayish in color and over three meters in height. They made huge leaps and strides over the ground, jumping easily over obstacles, but they seemed to move in slow motion and stayed in front of the luminous orbs of lights. According to Tobajas, the humanoid forms stopped briefly by a small creek and seemed to bend down several times. The humanoids suddenly began running at witnesses, who became terrified and drove away frantically from the area. The tall gray humanoid forms persisted in chasing the witness's vehicle for several minutes. Tobajas reportedly encountered similar humanoid figures at night, one year later. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1980, citing Dr. Jimenez del Oso and J. J. Benitez).

Feb. 11, 1980; Rio Negro province, Argentina

March 6, 1980; Warren, AZ

1:00 PM. A disc hovered over mine tailings in Warren and then flew along the ridge of a mountain. It turned on its edge and flew off to the south. The entire sighting lasted eight minutes. (Source: George Filer, Filer's Files, volume 9, issue 30).

March 6, 1980; Hudson, NH

8:40 PM. On this night a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc-shaped UFO over the town. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west. (Source: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1980).

March 8, 1980; Wilmington, NC
Object buzzed car, jet like sound, bright illumination; dog howled as if his ears hurt (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XII).

March 9, 1980; Newcastle, KY
7:00 PM. Lady said barking dogs drew her attention to a strange very bright object hovering motionless 20' away from ground near back of house. Three antenna-like sticks at slight angle pointing to ground. (MUJ-150)

March 22, 1980; Burlington, Vermont
Three smaller objects were observed on airport radar joining a larger, brighter object, then separating again (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VII).

April 2, 1980; Pudasjarvi, Finland
Car drove into "fog," headlights deflected upwards, driver abducted onto silvery domed object with portholes, examined on metallic table (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XIII).

April 10, 1980; Lincolnton, NC
Red disc-shaped object emitted light beam to ground; took off with intense humming sound leaving exhaust trail (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section IX).

April 20, 1980; San Mateo, CA
Five apparently metallic Saturn-shaped objects, high-speed flight in formation at low altitude, visible against local terrain (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section IV).

9:00 PM. Two roofers working in the late evening sighted a bright yellow disc-shaped UFO rise vertically from Lake Norman Reservoir, not far from a nuclear power plant in Rutherford County. It made a loop in the sky and flew away. (Sources: George D. Fawcett, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1980; UFO Magazine (USA), June 1990, p. 33).

May 2, 1980; San Jose, CA
Shiny sphere flying with rapid up and down motions observed through binoculars; stopped, spinning, over Lick Observatory, accelerated rapidly and sped away (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VI).

May 7, 1980; Valdese, NC
Disc with dome maneuvered near car, E-M effects on radio (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XII).

May 14, 1980; Simpson County, MS
Glowing disc cast light beam onto road; car entered beam, headlights flickered off and on several times, afterwards worked normally (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Sections VII, IX).


June 14, 1980; Cordoba and Rosario, Argentina
7:00 PM. Flurry of UFO sightings by numerous witnesses, including airport personnel and meteorologists, with extensive newspaper coverage. Objects appeared singly and in "fleets," and were described variously as "luminous oval-spherical"; "spinning top"; spindle-shaped; a sphere that emitted "an intense luminous ray that illuminated the surface of the river." At Cordoba Airport a UFO caused operations to be stopped for several minutes, as it was observed following the landing pattern of aircraft toward the airport. (La Cronica, Buenos Aires, June 15, 1980; Clarin, Buenos Aires, June 16, 1980; La Razon, Buenos Aires, June 16, 1980)

June 14, 1980; Santiago, Chile
5:40 PM. An LAN Chile airline pilot reported that a UFO made a head-on pass at his plane at 50,000 feet altitude. The glowing yellow object was moving faster than his aircraft and "at one time placed itself at the plane's altitude and approached it on a collision course, finally climbing abruptly and disappearing within seconds. " (La Razon, Buenos Aires, June 20, 1980)

June 20, 1980; Kuwait
9:00 PM. While descending through 15,000 feet for a landing, a senior Kuwait Airways pilot and crew observed a huge, brightly illuminated hemispherical object with a flat base moving steadily eastward at a slightly lower speed than his aircraft. "When I turned north at Wafra, the phenomenon was still clearly visible and remained so until we descended below the haze layer and started to approach the runway." The crew of another airline flight 90 miles away reported sighting the same phenomenon. Radar did not detect the object. (Confidential State Department teletype report from U.S. Embassy in Kuwait to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, declassified in 1982)

July 4, 1980; Mt. Vernon, IN
12:30 PM.  11-year-old boy reported a  disc-shaped object with dome-circle on bottom. Object was moving from overhead to the south, lost the object as it moved behind his home.(Ridge files)





Aug. 3, 1980; Norton AFB, San Bernardino, CA
9:00 PM. Three airmen and five civilians at separate locations sighted an object that looked like a "metallic balloon" with two flat sides, according to a base spokesman. The airmen, who observed it through binoculars, said it was a "highly reflective metallic color." It either landed or hovered just above a grassy area near a taxiway on the base. Then it took off and flew away at an estimated 30-40 m.p.h. A little later six residents of the Highland area saw an object of the same description as it flew north and eventually passed over the San Bernardino Mountains. The witnesses called the sheriff's department, and reported that the object was flying on a straight course about 200-300 feet above the ground. About an hour later  a sheriff's helicopter flew to the area to investigate, but saw nothing. No radar tracking were reported. (Riverside Enterprise, Aug. 6, 1980)


Aug. 9, 1980; Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM
Morning. Several security guards at the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, adjacent to Kirtland AFB, saw a bright light descend in a restricted area. A fourth guard observed a disk shaped light in the vicinity of a bunker used to store nuclear weapons. The incident resulted in a report being filed with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Kirtland. The incident was subsequently investigated by agent Richard Doty -- an interesting and mysterious figure who often appears in the UFO literature. Doty filed a preliminary report on the incident, which has been acknowledged and released by the Air Force. (Bruce Maccabee).

Aug. 17, 1980; Lima, OH
1:15 AM. Witness knocked back by light beam. 5-min duration and three witnesses. (Frontiers of Science, Sept.-Oct, 1980, Vol. II, 6

Aug. 21, 1980; East TX
Young woman and daughter driving home, E-M effects on car, car lifted off road onto craft, humanoids examined them on tables in room with "fog" on floor (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XIII).

Spinning top-shaped object with body lights, whistling sound, landed near water tank, vibrations felt, uncomfortable sound, livestock reacted. Physical traces (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section I).

Oct. 26, 1980; Greene County, Indiana
7:00 PM. A lopsided triangle shaped UFO was observed by a husband and wife on their farm in a close encounter. The object can be described two full moons spaced about 12 feet apart with a flashing red light in back like a lopsided triangle. Each white light could have been three feet in diameter and the white was so intense but noting around lit up. It seemed as if the light was somehow contained within itself. The object was at treetop level now and passed to the right of our security light. There was no reflection of metal anywhere. The lights were all that could be seen but I got the distinct impression that they were connected to something huge. The wife said: The object passed about twenty feet above the barn making no sound and lights making no light. When it was over the barn roof the sows with baby pigs in the barn jumped up and began wild grunting and knocking about in their pens. They settled down immediately after the object cleared the roof. The object is now coming very slowly towards the front of our house and yard. My husband had gone back into the house to watch from the front windows, my children are crying, and I am on the back porch having the time of my life.(IUR-3,5, Letter to Center for UFO Studies, John Timmerman files)

Nov. 1, 1980; Monroe City, IN
9:00 PM. Sheriff deputy involved in CE-III. Organization never provided any documentation or report. (UPRO)

Nov. 17, 1980; Kirtland AFB OSI Film (528)

Nov. 18, 1980; Kirksville, MO
Evening. Hundreds of people in north-central Missouri, including a dozen police officers, saw a large, triangular object over a period of more than four hours. It moved slowly back and forth over an area of nearly one hundred miles, passing over many small communities and the cities of Kirksville and Trenton, which are about sixty miles apart. At one time, the object was tracked on radar moving erratically at a speed of about forty-five miles an hour. The technician who saw this on the radar scope at a remote FAA facility north of Kirksville stepped outside and could see the lights of the object about six miles away. (NCS,191)

Nov. 19, 1980; Longmont, CO
Light beamed onto car, lights and radio failed, car levitated on board domed craft surrounded by dense cloud or mist, couple examined. Car placed back on road (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XIII).

Nov. 24, 1980; Peking UFO Study
Official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that an association to study UFOs had been established in Peking.

Nov. 28, 1980; Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK
Constable Alan Godfrey encountered craft on road, time loss. Abduction scenario emerged under hypnosis (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section XIII).

5:10-5:50 AM. Two on duty uniformed traffic officers were parked up in a pub car park when they observed a very bright UFO low on the horizon. The object was last seen heading in the direction of Todmorden. This case links to the Alan Godfrey case. The officers contacted Alan Godfrey approximately one year after his sighting. They would not come forward publicly fearing ridicule. (PRUFOS. THE 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE)

Dec. 4, 1980; Foxboro, MA
6:35 PM. A young man had a close encounter with a saucer-shaped object with a row of rectangular windows around the circumference, and was struck by a light beam on the chest and felt paralyzed. Perceived communication, apparent abduction, burn marks on chest corresponding to light beam position. (Investigation report, New England UFO Newsletter, January 1981)

Dec.15, 1980;  London, England

Dec. 17, 1980; Greenup County, KY
Time not given. Six witnesses of C1. No details. (MUJ-171)

Dec. 27-30, 1980; Bentwaters AFB, UK
Col. Halt case. Air Force security police encounter with landed craft in Rendlesham Forest, physical evidence (Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section II).

Dec. 29, 1980; Huffman, TX
About 9:00 P.M. The incident is described very well by Richard Hall in Vol. II, The UFO Evidence. While driving through the Piney Woods of East Texas, about 40 miles northeast of Houston, Betty Cash and her two passengers noticed a bright light ahead. As they drew within about 130 feet (40 meters), they were confronted by a fiery diamond-shaped object, emitting flames down toward the road. What happened after that is mind-boggling. Please read the reports below. Betty Cash and Vicki & Colby Landrum suffered apparent radiation illness after watching flame-spewing UFO and mystery helicopters. Several aspects of this incident never quite struck me right. Although there is no doubt that the incident occurred, it is now considered by many to be a non-UFO case.(Volume II, The UFO Evidence, Section VI).