NUFORC Sightings Report: 05/1981

This document is a compilation of UFO sightings reported to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) for the month of May 1981. The report lists seventeen distinct incidents occurring across various locations, primarily in the United States, but also including reports from the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and Chile. The sightings describe a wide variety of shapes, including lights, chevrons, disks, spheres, cigars, circles, ovals, fireballs, and triangles. The accounts range from brief observations of lights traversing the sky at extreme speeds to more detailed reports, such as a saucer-shaped craft hovering within throwing distance of a house in Humboldt, Tennessee, and a silent, silvery, torpedo-shaped object observed over tree-tops in Grass Valley, California. Several reports mention specific environmental or situational contexts, such as a witness on guard duty at a motor pool in Twenty Nine Palms, California, who observed a jeep starting up on its own, and a witness in San Diego, California, who claimed to have observed five UFOs with a girlfriend who was 'connected to them.' The reports vary in detail, with some being anonymous and others providing brief narrative descriptions of the events. The document serves as a historical record of public reports submitted to NUFORC during this period.