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.
1986 — 1 UAP case
UFO talk at Los Alamos: Pajarito Astronomers letter, 1986
A one-page letter to members of the Pajarito Astronomers (P.O. Box 1092, Los Alamos, NM 87544; "Sponsored by Club 1663"), dated Tuesday, 20 May 1986, with the officers' names redacted. It announces the next meeting for Thursday, 29 May 1986
1985 — 1 UAP case
US State Dept UFO Cable, Papua New Guinea, 1985
Declassified U.S. State Department diplomatic cable (CSP-2025-00040), from AMEMBASSY Port Moresby to USCINCPAC Honolulu and SECSTATE Washington, dated January 28, 1985 (subject: 'Papua New Guinea Inquiry Re Overflights'). The Embassy report