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25 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters of the 1980s, 1980 to 1989: 11 disputed, 10 unresolved, 3 explained, 1 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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La Joya air base pursuit 11 April 1980 · La Joya air base, Arequipa, Peru UNRESOLVED Paul Bennewitz and the lights over Manzano 24 October 1980 · Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano weapons storage area, Albuquerque, New Mexico DISPUTED Todmorden — PC Alan Godfrey 29 November 1980 · Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire UNRESOLVED Rendlesham Forest 26 December 1980 · Rendlesham Forest, outside RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk DISPUTED Cash–Landrum incident 29 December 1980 · FM 1485 near Huffman, Texas DISPUTED Trans-en-Provence landing trace 8 January 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var UNRESOLVED The spiral over south-west China 24 July 1981 · Sichuan and Yunnan, and across south-west, north-west and south-central China DISPUTED Hannah McRoberts’ photograph — Vancouver Island 8 October 1981 · A provincial park by the Eve River bridge on Highway 19, near Kelsey Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia DISPUTED Brest-Guipavas airport — the fireball by the runway 22 November 1981 · Brest-Guipavas airport, Finistère EXPLAINED Trancrainville — gendarmes on the A10 and the lit-up ground 23 January 1982 · A10 motorway near Trancrainville, Eure-et-Loir, north of Orléans UNRESOLVED VASP flight 169 — the light that paced a Boeing 727 8 February 1982 · Night flight from Fortaleza to Rio de Janeiro, first seen near Petrolina, Pernambuco DISPUTED Morenão stadium sighting 6 March 1982 · Estádio Morenão, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul UNRESOLVED Hessdalen lights 1 February 1984 · Hessdalen valley, Norway UNRESOLVED Hudson Valley "Westchester boomerang" 24 July 1984 · Brewster, Putnam County, New York EXPLAINED Aeroflot Tu-134 over Minsk — the light that became a cloud 7 September 1984 · Over Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, on the flight to Tallinn DISPUTED Dalnegorsk “Height 611” crash 29 January 1986 · Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia DISPUTED Brazil’s "Official UFO Night" 19 May 1986 · São José dos Campos – Rio de Janeiro – Goiás UNRESOLVED Torpo film 13 July 1986 · Mountain farm near Torpo, Hallingdal UNRESOLVED Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 17 November 1986 · Over north-east Alaska DISPUTED Gulf Breeze photographs 11 November 1987 · Gulf Breeze, Florida EXPLAINED Ilkley Moor photograph 1 December 1987 · Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England DISPUTED Knowles family encounter 20 January 1988 · Nullarbor Plain, between Madura and Mundrabilla, Western Australia UNRESOLVED Villa Urquiza Christmas sighting 25 December 1988 · Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires UNRESOLVED Kapustin Yar — the KGB file on a night of lights over a missile depot 28 July 1989 · Military sites 30–45 km from Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan oblast UNASSESSED Voronezh park landing 27 September 1989 · Voronezh, RSFSR (Russia) DISPUTED
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