1980

Early 1980's Washington

"The witness and his son were on Route 31 and noticed what he thought was a dirigible just above the trees. He stopped the car, and he and his son got out to shout to them thinking they might need help with guide lines. So he shouted up to the thing, “throw down your lines” in an effort to help – or something to that effect. Suddenly lights went on all around the thing and he saw inside what he thought were non-human creatures inside the craft. It floated away a little, and then took off at an enormous rate of speed.”

Source: www.nhufo.org

Early 1980’s Hampton Beach

“When I was like 8 or 9, my brother and two friends and I all saw a UFO. We were in the car, in the back seat, coming home from the beach. Our moms were in the front seat. T’was a huge, slow moving fireball! No joke. I saw it. We were all like, ‘Look, look!’ and our moms were yapping away with each other and weren’t really interested. They were like, ‘It’s probably a plane with the sun reflecting off of it.’ We watched it fly/float, whatever, for like five minutes. I remember it being reported in the news the next day. This was the early 80’s.”

Source: messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic

1980's Pittsburg

"In the evening there was a fast moving light going across the sky that disappeared behind a tree line. Then there were several lights moving around the sky like ping pong balls. One went around in an arc and up into the sky and quickly reached the back of the moon and was not seen again."

Source: www.vtliving.com

1980 Location unknown

"A saucer shaped object was seen at tree top height, approximately three hundred feet from a car. There were different colored windows around the saucer."

Source: www.mufon.com

Early 1980's Washington

Source: www.nhufo.org

January 10, 1980 Exeter

At 12:00 am, “I saw what appeared to be a very bright star, somewhat orange-yellow which changed intensity to very bright. I was looking across a field to tree line, where object moved slowly, deliberately, from horizon to overhead and made no noise. It stopped overhead and I could feel static electricity all around me. It was three hundred feet up and wider than the road. The disc was textured like brushed metal with ridges. The glow of the light emanating around the object seemed to skew the actual color, gray, black or rust brown. I could hear low humming, like high-tension wires. There was a flash of light, a beam, as blinding as a camera flash. Although the temperature outside was very cold, it was not cold while underneath. I felt an extreme burning, like radiation; so intense I thought I was going to burn alive. I was calling for my friend, fifty yards away. When we returned to the house, one hundred yards away, we found out we had been gone two hours. It felt like ten minutes.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

February 1980 Hillsboro

"Laurie Barr, an education student at New College in Henniker, had a startling experience in February, 1980, driving home after a date with her fiancé, Billy Gould, 22, who works in his family’s well-drilling business. The Gould’s live on an isolated farm...and on this frosty night, Billy and Laurie had parked their truck in a field behind the Gould’s barn. They were talking over their marriage plans when Laurie noticed that Billy was staring out the window, transfixed.

"Then I saw a light, like a streetlight shining in the woods,’ she says. ‘It floated up over the trees and came toward us.’ Laurie huddled close to her fiancé as the lighted object hovered directly over their truck. Abruptly the truck’s police radar detector went on, filling the cab with its red light. Laurie screamed to Billy to turn off the engine so the light would go out – she didn’t want them to be illuminated inside the cab. ‘It looked like a rounded-off football over the truck,’ Laurie says. Slowly the object drifted away. Leaving the trucks light off, Billy switched on the engine and slowly followed the craft across the field. Suddenly the object accelerated and whizzed away like a bullet.”

Source: McCall's Magazine, Feb. 1981, pg. 28. You can read the whole magazine article, click the Research tab, then Article 1, "Close Encounters in New Hampshire"""

March 1980 Hillsboro

“Charles and Mae Hogg, who live in an old farm house in the forested hills that surround Hillsboro, have no doubt that something strange was happening. They have frequently seen unidentified objects flying overhead. In fact, Charles, a special policeman working with several of the area departments, says that on patrol he has averaged two sightings a night. But the Hoggs’ most puzzling experience was with something they didn’t see. One chilly Saturday morning in March, 1980, Mae looked out her kitchen window and saw footprints in the snow where nobody should have been walking. Going out to look, Charles found – to his astonishment – that the prints began near the garage, circled past the kitchen window and then marched back to where they had begun. No prints led into the circle, none led out of it. Apparently, the walker had dropped from the skies, taken a little hike and then re-ascended. Charles Hogg is a tall, rawboned man who wears a size 11 shoe. But the prints were huge, dwarfing his own boots. And whoever made the prints had taken 42-inch strides. As a police chief who examined the strange footprints the next day remarked, ‘If this thing comes back, don’t call me.’”

Source: McCall's Magazine, Feb. 1981, pg. 22. You can read the whole magazine article, click the Research tab, then Article 1, "Close Encounters in New Hampshire"

March 6, 1980 Hudson

At 8:40 pm, "a witness reported seeing a slow flying disc over the town. The object made a low, steady humming sound. A second object was seen flying toward the west."

Source: www.ufoinfo.com

March 20, 1980 Concord

A man had left work after midnight and was driving in a bad rain and ice storm on Route 3. Once past Concord on Route 93 it had stopped raining and was cloudy. The driver saw an unusual light below the clouds, as they approached his car one light turned into multiple lights. There were eight or ten glowing green neon objects. One after another of these objects swooped down and flew within one hundred feet, quickly and silently over the car and back up into cloud cover making a green glow.

Source: www.nuforc.org

June 7, 1980 Washington

At 12:30 am, “Was object UFO? Mrs. Jane Etheridge of Valley Road has reported to local authorities that at about 12:30 am last Saturday, while she was returning home from her job at Sylvania, she spotted a large, bright red and yellow object of undetermined origin. She described it as looking like ‘a light atop a radio tower’, hovering silently just above the trees near a section of Route 31 between Valley Road and the Washington Service Center. Etheridge said that she parked her car at the service center and watched as the object began moving slowly northward toward Highland Lake and Lovewell Mountain. She reported that a short time later the object changed direction and headed toward the service center, but disappeared when a truck approached on 31.”

Source: Hillsboro Messenger, June 11, 1980, pg. 2

June 10, 1982 Madbury

“Wedge-shaped object with body lights hovered low over reservoir, lights reflecting in water; instant relocation, red light beam shone on house, then on car.”

Source: www.nicap.org/chrono.htm

August 7, 1980 Mount Washington

"I was backpacking with a friend near Lonesome Lake, just north of Mount Washington. While lying in sleeping bags, no tent, looking up at the stars, they noticed a shooting star that looked as though it would hit the north side of Mount Washington. Just before it would have hit the north side, the light swerved two hundred seventy degrees and disappeared. In five seconds a light was visible over the tree line. There was also a high frequency humming noise that increased in a pitch, as it got closer. The light passed directly over our heads. I recall being frozen in fear. The light resembled a round glowing ring on a dark mass.”

Source: www.mufon.com

September 1980 Hillsboro

“On a Sunday night in September, 1980, Annette Vayens was sitting in her favorite living room chair, watching ‘Trapper John’ on television. It was nearly 11:00 o’clock when she happened to glance at the window behind the set.

‘These four lights came down over the trees and right up to the window,’ she says. ‘Then they backed off from the window, zoomed back up over the trees and were gone.’ The reddish-yellow lights were intense, she says. They were arranged in a square, two on top, and two on the bottom. And each light was a foot in diameter. Startled, she rushed to the window, but nothing was there.”

Source: McCall's Magazine Feb. 1981, pg. 27

You can read the whole magazine article by going to the Research tab and clicking on Article 1, "Close Encounters in New Hampshire"""

Autumn 1980 Hillsboro

"Late one night in autumn, George Hill was driving home from the Washington school, sixteen miles from Hillsboro on isolated Route 31. Many people have sighted UFOs along this lonely stretch of road, and Hill himself had often seen lights that behaved oddly in the sky – diving steeply, zipping upward at stunning speeds, abruptly reversing directions. Rounding a bend, he jammed on his brakes and stared in astonishment; blocking the road ahead was an incredible object. ‘It looked like a child’s top, about twenty-five feet in diameter, about eighteen feet high,’ says Hill. ‘It looked as though someone had strung Christmas tree lights around it and a revolving light protruded from the top.’ Metallic-looking, noiseless, the object floated a few feet above the pavement. Suddenly it slid off the road into a swamp. As Hill watched, aghast, something like a submarine’s conning tower slid up from the top. Then an object that looked like a child’s sliding board slowly slid out from the bottom, only to draw back in almost immediately. For seconds the craft was motionless. Then slowly, it floated upward to about forty feet over the ground. And then it “simply disappeared. Whether it shot away too fast for his eye to follow or vanished in some other way, Hill does not know.”

Source: McCall's Magazine, Feb. 1981, pg. 28.

You can read the whole magazine article by going to the Research tab and clicking on Article 1, "Close Encounters in New Hampshire"

April 1981 Rochester

At 9:20 pm, “I was unloading groceries when I saw what appeared to be a shooting star. I watched it falling in an arc, but then it suddenly stopped and hovered above the tree line. I saw lights of red, blue and green flickering. Then it lowered slowly, straight down, until the lights went out. It all happened in thirty seconds.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

April 15, 1981 Mount Sunapee, Newbury

At 7:35 pm, "a man driving saw a huge metal triangular object with several red lights. It first appeared as two huge bright stars. Then one star seemed to fall several miles straight down and moved west. It flew very low, lower than the hills, and passed over the man’s car."

Source: www.bobpratt.org

Summer 1981 or 1982 Monroe, N.H. / Barnet, VT border

“I was traveling with friends on I-91 and near the rest area overlook in the area between Barnet and East Barnet, VT, which is on the N.H. border. We stopped for a rest, got out, were talking and observed a silver disc hovering over the power line. It had a pole-like thing touching the power lines. It was about a half mile away. It hovered about one minute then took off slowly. It didn’t make any noise, or have any lights, but the moon had lit up the evening enough to clearly see the shape of the disc. The next morning the radio announced that the police had received hundreds of calls about sightings that night.”

Source: www.nhufo.org

June 10, 1982 Madbury

“Wedge-shaped object with body lights hovered low over reservoir, lights reflecting in water; instant relocation, red light beam shone on house, then on car.”

Source: www.nicap.org/chrono.htm

September 30, 1982 Hampton

"A very important multiple witness, nocturnal close encounter occurred in this city located near Pease Air Force Base. This large UFO descended silently from the tree top height of a low hill, down into a swamp area, going out of sight and out of possible radar coverage. The two witnesses describe how they had run almost directly under the large, hovering, soundless UFO, which had a huge oval beam emanating downward from it. Then while they stood transfixed (apparently under a degree of alien mind-control) during perhaps several seconds, one of them received a powerful telepathic communication. The stunning chief part of the communication was from the witness understanding what the aliens were telling her, that there really are evil humans and that they are going to get rid of the evil human individuals. The other of these two witnesses readily attested to the heavy impact that this communication had had on her friend in the weeks following the encounter."

Source: www.ufoinfo.com

October 31, 1983 Rochester

At 7:00 pm, “I heard an unusual humming noise, almost a B flat minor. I looked out the window. I saw cars pulled off both sides of the street on Rochester Hill Road, approximately twenty-five feet above my front yard was a diamond shaped, platinum silver disc like object, about the size of a school bus, just hovering. Different colors of lights lined the perimeter of the craft and were mostly shades of blues, lavender, yellow and green. It remained for thirty minutes.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

February 1984 Marlow

"Orange fireball with strange movement, 30-45 seconds. It was about mid February 1984 at about 10 or 11 pm, traveling south on Route 10 in Marlow, N.H. heading to Harrisville, N.H., I decided to take a back road and turned left or west onto Route 123. As I made the turn I observed what appeared to be a barn a top a hill fully engulfed in flame. I pulled to the side of the road to take a look and thought I observed the fire move. I thought I must have been moving so I stopped dead still and I observed movement of the fireball…..I did a u-turn on Route 123 and as I headed back south on Route 10, looking back once, and observed unusual movement again.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

October 16 and 17, 1984 Keene

"A mysterious craft was seen near Rte. 12. and a Keene Police Sergeant got a call and drove out to the highway to see what was going on. He caught sight of something in the sky and shined his cruisers spotlight on a huge, white, dirigible shaped object before it moved off. The following night it was back hovering over Keene again. A lot of people reported something strange during those two nights."

Source: Keene Sentinel Newspaper, Sep. 25, 1992

October 1984 Stratham

It was around 7:00 pm one evening “In October, and me, my sister-in-law and young niece were headed to Exeter to go through a Halloween Haunted house. We saw the craft float or drift across Route 101, going north to south, so as it crossed Route 101 it travelled out across Stratham Hill Park. There was no sound coming from it and I do not recall any lights on the outside, but rather the inside seemed to be lighted…it was a fairly large craft. I did not see the same thing as my sister-in-law, which is strange. My sister-in-law saw a cigar shaped craft with windows and what she said looked like shadows of people moving around behind the windows. I saw what I describe as a cigar smoking alien (Nazi type uniform) staring straight into my eyes. I know this sounds ridiculous, but this is what I saw. I do not know why my sister-in-law and I saw two different things, but this is how it happened. My young niece is deceased and I only remember that she was quite frightened in the back seat of my car. I remember joking with my sister-in-law, as we watched the craft continue off over Stratham Hill Park, that it was headed for (omitted) Road to visit with my brother, her husband. When we got home…sure enough, my brother said he had seen through the kitchen window bright lights about treetop level. He was so afraid that I his words, ‘I made myself part of the chair’. He did not go outside or get up to go to the kitchen window’.”

Source: www.nhufo.org

1985 Nashua

"I was driving toward Nashua when my wife and I heard this incredible hum…I looked toward the sound and saw these bright lights. Stopped the car by the side of the road to see. There was an enormous cigar-shaped craft with several brilliant lights about 50 feet above the ground just over the trees. The light in the center was like a black light, ultraviolet with a bright neon green kind of outlining it, and smaller white lights around the sides of the craft, they could have been windows. It moved slowly for two minutes, then it zoomed away so fast we could barely see it go.”

Source: www.virtuallystrange.net

June 20, 1985 Salem

"I was on my way to work…traveling south on I-95 headed to Salem. It was a multi-colored sphere traveling directly over the top of my vehicle about a hundred feet up, was traveling at a high rate of speed, went by me and headed south for a few seconds then it went straight up in the sky and was gone. When I got to work I called the local police station in Salem, they told me the phone lines were jamming up because hundreds of people saw the same thing.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

February 1986

At 8:00 pm, “I was walking to a friends house…It was snowing and very heavily overcast, with the lights of the town reflecting on the clouds…I looked up and saw a light in the clouds above me…I realized that it didn’t make any sound…I stopped to watch it and the lights changed color to a bluish/red/white color. It started to move side to side very slightly then a white light came out of the bottom of the craft. I watched for five minutes then it disappeared.”

Source: www.mufon.com

November 1986 Landaff

At 10:50 pm, “We noticed an unusual light in the northwest sky. It grew steadily closer and to our surprise, came within a couple hundred feet from us. It was a triangular craft with three white lights at each corner, three pod like shapes underneath, and metallic looking rigging around all sides. It moved incredibly fast, silent and in any direction it wanted to go. We were scared and took off in a car. The craft descended and followed the car closely for about a mile before speeding off to the east.” Source: www.nuforc.org

Summer 1987 Hooksett

"One afternoon, from the porch on the second floor, I could see above the tree line for a long distance. I saw something white and glowing, oval shaped, hovering over the town of Hooksett. I could see the tall lamp- posts that are along the roads, and the object hovered about one hundred feet above them. It stayed for about forty-five minutes. I called the Hooksett police to report it."

Source: www.nhufo.org

October 1987 Alstead

At 9:00 pm, “While sitting in a car in an open field, viewing the mountains to the north. A bright flash of light lit up the sky, like a flash from an old-fashioned camera bulb. After one minute, along came four more, one by one. We got to see better. There were things flying out of the pulsating flash of light. Little streaks, like something taking off from it. At 10:30 pm we noticed two more flying objects heading west behind us. The next thing we both remembered was checking the time again, it was 11:00 pm and we felt like time had elapsed awfully fast. The lights were gone.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

November 1987 Hampton

At 10:00 pm, “For one hour I observed a tanish brown cigar shape object, the size of five or six Boeing jets long, about one mile away. The object was very clear.”

Source: www.ufoevidence.org

Summer 1988 Berlin

At 10:00 pm, "While driving, we came upon some cars parked on the side of the road. Six people saw a UFO hovering over the mountains. It was one disc with three white lights, and watched it for five minutes and then it took off. No sound. No trails. Just gone in two seconds."

Source: www.ufoevidence.org

October 1988 Barnstead ?

At 11:30 pm, "two friends were out driving, when they both noticed some odd looking lights about fifty yards above. They thought it was observing them. They stopped the truck, got out and watched the craft while it floated silently above them. The air felt electrically charged. It was very long, cylindrical shaped, with three sets of two massive bright electrical lights. Bright lights in the front, middle and rear of the craft. The craft shot out of sight quickly. The sighting lasted thirty seconds."

Source: www.nuforc.org

Note from nhufo.org: The report listed the town of Barnhart, there is no town by that name in N.H., and we’re assuming its Barnstead.

October 7, 1988 Hancock

At 3:00 am, “Three bright lights with a brilliant orange rotating light underneath, rotating like a strobe light. It flared up and the three lights were actually windows. It gradually tilted and turned pink, coming down slowly behind a row of trees. The object was disc shape, approximately fifty feet circumference, about one quarter mile away. It was watched for five minutes. Witness also described being abducted.”

Source: www.ufoevidence.org

1989 Exeter

"Another Exeter academician, one of the town's 'super moms' and a member of the Exonian family, related an incident dating to when she resided on Tan Lane. Her children and their friends, who 'were always outside playing and traveled about in a pack everywhere together, 'burst through the door 'a goggle.' They breathlessly spewed out a description of a UFO they saw descend onto the academy grounds."

Source: www.seacoastonline.com

1989 Unknown

At 12:00 pm “My brother and I were young boys. I did not see any lights like everyone else, maybe because it was around noon. We were outside on the deck and we heard a real low rumble, so we looked up and there it was – about fifteen above feet us! It was shaped just like an egg, about twenty feet long with a big black windshield. There were no propellers, no wings, no lights and it was deathly still.”

Source: myufo.com

1989 Alexandria

“A UFO with a ribbon was seen by a Deputy Clerk of the Plymouth District Court and her spouse.” Was also described as looking like a jelly fish.

Source: www.rense.com

January 1989 Windham

“On I-93, a highway crew supervisor was returning home when he spotted a silvery object quickly descending overhead. The object hovered over the overpass. As he drove by, he was able to see several figures inside the object looking out a row of windows on the bottom of the craft. Later, under hypnosis, he was able to recall his vehicle being levitated into the object through a large opening in the bottom of the craft. He was then removed from his truck by three short beings. They were bald with gray skin and wearing silver colored uniforms with patterns traced in gold on their collars. He was then taken to another room where he was given a very painful medical examination. No effort was made on the part of the beings to keep him comfortable.” “Three bright lights with a brilliant orange rotating light underneath, rotating like a strobe light. It flared up and the three lights were actually windows. It gradually tilted and turned pink, coming down slowly behind a row of trees. The object was disc shape, approximately fifty feet circumference, about one quarter mile away. It was watched for five minutes.”

Source: www.ufoinfo.com

February 23, 1989 Newport

"Two witnesses saw a bright light approach their car. They stopped their car to observe. The light passed about three hundred feet overhead. It gave off a high pitched humming sound, it lasted about one minute."

Source: www.nuforc.org

April 1989 Derry, Londonderry

"In early 1989, a man reported being abducted by aliens while driving on Interstate 93 between exits 2 and 3. In April, MUFON received more than a dozen calls about UFO sightings in the Derry and Londonderry area.”

Source: New Hampshire Union Leader, Feb. 18, 1991, pg. 20

May 1989 Hooksett

At 2:00 am, “I was lying in bed, looking out the window into the night sky when I saw a small flashing light come into view. It began to travel down at an angle, and then abruptly stopped. It hovered for a moment then, as if making a ‘V’ shape, it moved upwards to the left, stopped and hovered for two minutes before it sped to the right out of view.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

August 1989 Portsmouth

"When I was twelve, we lived in an apartment above a store on Rte. 1. It was dark out. In the shower was a small window with a curtain over it. As I was showering, I heard this strange low humming noise coming from outside the window. I pulled back the curtain and saw floating next to the house was a UFO, just over the trees. It was metallic, gray and disc or egg shaped with moving lights around the edge. It was very smooth with no seams, doors or windows. As soon as I saw the UFO, it went straight up like nothing I have seen before. When it was gone, the humming was gone.”

Source: www.nuforc.org

October 12, 1989 East Kingston

"Two witnesses reported seeing four to five round objects that pulsated from white to green, traveling in formation. No sound was heard."

Source: www.mufon.com

December 10, 1989 Concord

At 11:24 pm, "A couple saw a seventy foot long silver, cylindrical object hovering low overhead as they crossed a bridge over the Merrimack River. It had white lights on the ends and a blue light on top and three portholes. The objects moved to one side, and then it rose out of sight fast."

Source: www.ufoinfo.com

Late 1980’s Keene

“It was a long time ago that I was told this story. A friend of mine and his father saw a UFO over the trees near Route 101 and Route 9 in Keene some twenty years ago.”

Source: www.city-data.com