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UFO sighted in Easley (SC)

September, 9, 1980 - Easley, South Carolina, United States

There was something ' strange, and beautiful, and incredibly big floating just above the tree tops in front of Larry Joe Garrett's house on Fruit Mountain Road last Thursday morning. "That's the Goodyear blimp!" was my first thought. Then I realized it wasn't a blimp."  View full report

Source: Easley Progress (South Carolina), Sept. 17, 1980   ID: 299
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Rotary/Spin Motion

Rosedale Victoria: A Close Encounter

September, 30, 1980 - Rosedale, Australia

A very spectacular event is reported to have occurred in the early hours of September 30, 1980, on a property known as "White-Acres," some 8km from Rosedale, Victoria, Australia. Investigations were conducted by a number of people and, in view of the apparent magnitude of the event, Bill Chalker, Gary Little and Keith Basterfield co-investigated the case.  View full report

Source: Keith Basterfield & Bill Chalker / UFO Research Australia   ID: 63
Case Type: StandardCase

Police constable Alan Godfrey's abduction in West Yorkshire, England

November, 28, 1980 - Todmorden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Police officer Alan Godfrey was on routine patrol when he encountered a metallic disc with a dome and a row of windows. Suddenly, there was a burst of light, and he found himself 100 yards farther down the road, and the UFO was gone. Under hypnosis later, Godfrey recalled being struck by a beam of light which floated him into the craft, and meeting a human-like being named Joseph, whose clothing was very Biblical in nature. Aboard the craft, he was physically examined and asked questions.  View full report

Source: Jenny Randles   ID: 722
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Abduction, Missing Time, Police, E-M Effects, Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Young boy struck by beam of light from UFO

December, 5, 1980 - Foxboro, Massachusetts, United States

13 year-old boy declaring he had been struck by a beam of light from a UFO that seemed to appear above him from nowhere and to hover so closely that he could estimate its size to be "bigger than a house."  View full report

Source: Joseph Nyman, Mass. MUFON Chief Investigator, Mass. MUFON and Edwin 'Ed' Fogg, Jr.   ID: 3
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Physiological Effects, Children

The Rendlesham Forest Incident Featured Case

December, 26, 1980 - Rendlesham Forest, United Kingdom

What is widely considered Britain’s most extraordinary encounter took place between 26 and 28 December 1980. It involved at least a dozen civilians from villages surrounding Rendlesham Forest, a large pine wood in south east Suffolk eight miles from the large town of Ipswich. However, it also gained a high profile because of its military witnesses, part of a huge USAF contingent at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge located beside the forest.  View full report

Source: Jenny Randles   ID: 279
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Physiological Effects, Military, Nuclear Facility, Witness Photo, Witness Sketch

The Cash-Landrum Case Featured Case

December, 29, 1980 - Huffman, Texas, United States

A terrifying encounter with a flame belching UFO on a lonely road near Huffman, Texas, resulted in appalling injuries for the three innocent victims. According to Bob Pratt, "the case remains one of the most important in the history of ufology. It has never been resolved. Someone in the U.S. knows exactly what happened to Betty and Vickie and Colby but they have remained silent despite all the suffering - and ridicule - those three endured."  View full report

Source: NICAP   ID: 86
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physiological Effects, Injury

The Hudson Valley Boomerang Sightings Featured Case

1981 - Hudson Valley, New York, United States

Between 1982 and 1995, more than seven thousand cases were investigated and documented by a team of investigators led by Philip J. Imbrogno, a high school science teacher and astronomer in Greenwich, Connecticut. The heaviest period was between the end of 1982 and 1986, when more than five thousand people reported seeing the object.  View full report

Source: Bob Pratt   ID: 1084
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Mass Sighting

Reinhold Messner, famous mountain climber, sees moon-sized object while climbing in Himalayas

1981 - Katmandu, Nepal

Italian Reinhold Messner, one of the world's foremost mountaineers, said Friday he watched a UFO "the size of a full moon" for nearly three hours while climbing in the Himalayas. On his return to Katmandu after an unsuccessful attempt on 24,248-foot Mount Chamlang, he said he spotted the UFO as it drifted south into Nepal from Tibet over the mighty snowcapped mountains.  View full report

Source: News World (New York) / United Press International, Oct. 10, 1981   ID: 942
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Famous Person

Carlos Diaz Photo and Contact Case (Mexico)

January, 1981 - Ajusco National Forest , Mexico

"The source of light revealed itself to be a large, orange, oval-shaped UFO, slowly hovering about 30 metres from his car... The whole car began to shake violently. Diaz got out of the vehicle and took two more photographs before the craft sped up vertically into the sky..." This encounter marked the beginning of what was to develop into a fascinating and long-running contactee case.  View full report

Source: The X Factor, Issue 89   ID: 1091
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Contact, Photo, Vehicle Interference

Trans-en-Provence Physical Trace Case Featured Case

January, 8, 1981 - Trans-en-Provence, France

On the afternoon of January 8, 1981, a strange craft landed on a farm near the village of Trans-en-Provence in the Var region in southeastern France. Physical traces left on the ground were collected by the Gendarmerie within 24 hours and later analyzed in several French government laboratories. Extensive evidence of anomalous activity was detected.  View full report

Source: ISSO   ID: 110
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Landing, Witness Sketch

Metallic object flew silently overhead at 20-40 mph at 200-400 feet

March, 1981 - Montaulk, New York, United States

I stopped the car and shut the engine. Looking up I saw a metalic object pass slowly overhead at perhaps 200-400 feet. There were no wings or rotors, no visible engines, and absolutely no sound.  View full report

Source: UFO Evidence   ID: 68
Case Type: RawReport

Large low-flying object with square windows seen by couple in car over Bethesda, MD

March, 15, 1981 - Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Martin Buxbaum was driving with his wife and noticed an unusual object silhouetted against the dark blue evening sky. The object had the wingspan of a 717 but was flying low, he says. It was accented by a row of square windows in the front and two "cherry red" exhaust lights to the rear. But most mysterious of all, the object made no sound at all  View full report

Source: Mike M. Ahlers, Montgomery Journal (Chevy Chase, MD), March 25, 1981   ID: 949
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Silent, Witness Sketch

Fishing crews observe large conical object hovering over water

March, 25, 1981 - Ayamonte (Huelva), Spain

The fishing boat Moguer 5 left port at Ayamonte (Huelva) Spain and proceeded out to sea. Six other boats comprised the rest of a small fishing fleet. The Moguer 5 was 400 meters from the shore when a conical-shaped object was seen 100 meters farther out to sea, hovering over the water's surface. The witnesses watched the cone for 20 minutes while it rotated just above the sea's surface for 20 minutes at which time it rose vertically and disappeared into the sky.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin (vol. 29, no. 11)   ID: 766
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Water-Related, Group Sighting

Low-flying cigar-shaped object sighted over Los Angeles in 1981

April, 19, 1981 - Los Angeles, California, United States

A large, low-flying cigar-shaped object with white lights shining from a row of "windows" and bearing green-blue and white "running lights" was sighted by a West Los Angeles resident on the night of April 19, 1981 at about 11:30 p.m. Taff estimated the object, which made no sound, was about 65 feet in length and about 15 feet high.  View full report

Source: News World (New York, NY), Dec. 12, 1981 / APRO Bulletin, 1981   ID: 943
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch, Silent, Portholes/Windows, Body Lights

Russian Cosmonaut sees UFO while in orbit aboard Salyut-6 Space Station

May, 5, 1981 - In Earth orbit (Salyut-6 Space Station),

Cosmonaut Major General Vladimir Kovalyonok, had an encounter during the Saljut VI Mission in 1981. "I just made some gymnastic exercises, when I saw in front of me, through a porthole, an object which I could not explain... I saw this object and then something happened I could not explain, something impossible according to the laws of Physics."  View full report

Source: Michael Hesemann, International UFO Congress (2002)   ID: 396
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Astronaut/Space, Witness Photo

Cigar-shaped object with portholes seen by 7 witnesses over Northern Texas

May, 13, 1981 - Denison, Texas, United States

At least seven persons spotted an unidentified flying object over Texomaland last Wednesday morning. Jim Shelton, mechanic at Jim Graham International, described the sighting and drew a sketch. "It was a flying object with lit portholes. Fire was streaming in sparks from the rear, and it had green and yellow pulsating lights," he said. "It was real. I saw it, and if they lock me up, I still saw it. It was long, a cigar-like shape."  View full report

Source: Irene Flaherty, Denison Herald (Denison, TX), May 17, 1981   ID: 948
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Silent, Witness Sketch
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