For a given graph G let V (G) and E(G) denote the vertex and the edge set of G respevtively. The symbol G e → (a1, . . . , ar) means that in every rcoloring of E(G) there exists a monochromatic ai-clique of color i for some i ∈ {1, ..., r}. The edge Folkman numbers are defined by the equality Fe(a1, . . . , ar; q) = min{|V (G)| : G e → (a1, . . . , ar; q) and cl(G) < q}. In this paper we prove a new upper bound on the edge Folkman number Fe(3, 5; 8), namely Fe(3, 5; 8) ≤ 21 This improves the bound Fe(3, 5; 8) ≤ 24, proved in [5]