Noun

Singular unidentified flying object

Plural unidentified flying objects

unidentified flying object (plural unidentified flying objects)

  1. Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air, primarily used to refer to objects that seem to be at least of small familiar aircraft size. Abbreviated UFO.
    The lights seen over the city last night, originally termed unidentified flying objects, turned out to be spotlights from a car dealership reflecting on low clouds.
  2. (colloquial) An alien spacecraft. More commonly called a UFO.

Synonyms

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Mon Jan 25 15:52:30 2010

Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though the term UFO is often used more generally to describe any sighting unidentifiable to the reporting observer(s). Popular culture frequently takes the term UFO as a synonym for alien spacecraft. Cults have become associated with UFOs, and mythology and folklore have evolved around the phenomenon. Some investigators now prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO. Another widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian is OVNI (Objeto Volador No Identificado, with variant regional spellings).

Studies have established that the majority of UFOs are observations of some real but conventional object—most commonly aircraft, balloons, or astronomical objects such as meteors or bright planets—that have been misidentified by the observer as anomalies, while a small percentage of reported UFOs are hoaxes. Only between 5% to 20% of anomalous sightings can be classified as unidentified flying objects in the strictest sense (see below for some studies).

Some scientists have argued that all UFO sightings are misidentifications of natural phenomena and historically, there was debate among some scientists about whether scientific investigation was warranted given available empirical data. Very little peer-reviewed literature has been published in which scientists have proposed, studied or supported non-prosaic explanations for UFOs. Nevertheless, over the years UFOs have been the subject of many investigations that have varied widely in scope and scientific rigor.

UFO reports became frequent after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947, that gave rise to the popular terms "flying saucer" and "flying disc." Since then, millions of people have reported that they have seen UFOs.

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Fri Feb 12 16:42:06 2010

Have you ever seen a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object), and what were the circumstances?
Q. Have you ever seen a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object), and what were the circumstances?
Asked by docker39 - Sun May 28 16:16:51 2006 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Yes I have seen them all of my life...Just to name a few that I have been witness to ..A huge rectangle object that could take an entire football field to land. A silver disc right above me in the middle of the afternoon as I sit on the lake in my boat fishing..then it shot up and gone with instant speed..speed we do NOT have...an orange sphere...silver balls...a backwards c shape object we followed for 45 min...an elongated diamond that shone an intense spotlight on me before it shot up into the night ...then the very most recent was last month. It was a windy night and not really that nice out, no rain just not nice. I decided to go to grab a bag of blankets from the RV that's parked down by the lake. I headed out from the cabin and was… [cont.]
Answered by Entity of Life - Thu Jun 1 01:58:05 2006

Have you ever seen an Unidentified Flying Object?
Q. If you have, then when and where did you see it? And even though you cannot identify it, what do you think it was? I saw a light in the sky perform manoeuvres that required speeds not capable by any known form of flight. The event lasted about half an hour and then the object shot up into the sky at an unbelievable speed. eggylang - try reading more carefully. Flight not light!!!
Asked by jameske3001 - Mon Jun 16 12:14:46 2008 - - 15 Answers - 0 Comments

A. No I have not seen a UFO. However, I do not dismiss the testimony of thousands of civilian and military pilots and other trained observers like military and law enforcement personnel or astronomers. Many eye witness reports are also corroborated with radar confirmation and some with photographs as well. I believe if a UFO is an alien space craft or a currently unknown weather phenomena or any other explanation (and there is likely more than one explanation for different sightings) that science could only be advanced by our studying this phenomena. Psi
Answered by psiexploration - Wed Jun 18 02:36:04 2008

why are people so afraid of UFO's (unidentified flying objects) in US?
Q. what are UFO's actually and i have heard alot about it in news. People say its a very fast flying object which disappears in 3 or 4 seconds...
Asked by zorax - Thu Sep 18 17:57:44 2008 - - 15 Answers - 0 Comments

A. because americans are terrified about things they don't have control over
Answered by hotbean - Thu Sep 18 18:07:14 2008

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See also:

  • Ufoboard.netUfoboard.net
    jtc-ufo.com
    About pre-1960 ufo-like phenomena from many decades and centuries ago. Includes articles about auroras, meteors, singular phenomena, apparitions and even strange airships, hoaxes, humanoids, inventors and anomalies.
  • Amateur Radio Unidentified Flying Object NetAmateur Radio Unidentified Flying Object Net
    arufon.org
    Offers information and links on UFOs and ham radio.
  • <b>The Black Vault</b>The Black Vault
    blackvault.com
    Large UFO site, with features including scanned pages of official government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, court documents, information on viewing UFO's, and a discussion board.

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