NUFORC Sightings Report: 10/1981

This document is a compilation of UFO sightings reported to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) during the month of October 1981. The report lists nineteen distinct incidents occurring across various locations in the United States and Canada. The sightings describe a wide variety of aerial phenomena, including objects identified as disks, circles, orbs, cigars, triangles, eggs, and rectangles. Reported behaviors range from silent, stationary hovering to high-speed maneuvers, such as one object in the West Elk Wilderness Area of Colorado that reportedly traveled at several thousand miles per hour before leveling off to one thousand miles per hour while zig-zagging through timber. Several reports include accounts of missing time, such as incidents in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, and Hesperia, Michigan. Other witnesses reported physiological or emotional distress, including fear and difficulty breathing, as noted in a sighting in Stonewall, Manitoba. The document serves as a chronological log of these civilian reports, providing dates, times, locations, and brief descriptions of the observed phenomena.