1980s: declassified UAP incidents — timeline.

2 UAP cases

The 1980s account for 2 UAP cases in this archive — 2 documents — released by Department of Energy and Department of State under the PURSUE program. Reported locations from the decade include New Mexico and Papua New Guinea, among others; some incidents carry no usable location and are excluded from the map. Every year below links to the cases reported in it, and years with enough declassified material get their own dedicated timeline page, linked from the heading. Use the interactive map to see where these incidents cluster, or the knowledge graph to follow a witness, mission or aircraft type across the rest of the archive.