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Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any apparent 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 today the term UFO is colloquially used to refer to any unidentifiable sighting regardless of whether it has been investigated. UFO reports increased precipitously after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in June 1947, that gave rise to the popular terms "flying saucer" and "flying disc." The term UFO is popularly taken as a synonym for alien spacecraft and generally most discussions of UFOs revolve around this presumption. UFO enthusiasts and devotees have created organizations, religious cults have adopted extraterrestrial themes, and in general the UFO concept has evolved into a prominent mythos in modern culture. 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, Portuguese, French, and Italian is OVNI (Objeto Volador No Identificado, Objeto Voador Não Identificado, Objet volant non identifié or Oggetto Volante Non Identificato). 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. Between 5% to 20% of anomalous sightings can be classified as unidentified in the strictest sense (see below for some studies). The possibility that all UFO sightings are misidentifications of known natural phenomena inspired some debate in the scientific community about whether scientific investigation was warranted given the paucity of 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, UFOs as a cultural phenomenon continues to be the subject of serious academic research and amateur investigators continue to advocate that UFOs represent real and unexplained events, whether or not they are associated with alien encounters. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License UFOS..................... ......................... ....? Q. why the government dont want us to know if they really exist Asked by mazziso - Mon Jun 29 19:34:37 2009 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments A. There are actually many confidential reasons involved. 1.Government is afraid that you will panic 2.Our machines might not be able to catch up with them 3.We do not have adequate space for them to park 4.ufos has no diplomatic ties with us 5.Afraid to be contaminated by unknown H2N2, maybe 6.Afraid that they might be more intelligent than our government 7.If let known to the public, our government could lose the next election well...anybody care to top up? Answered by Ah J - Mon Jun 29 21:11:10 2009 What do you think of THE REAL UFOs on the History Channel ? Q. It's on at 11 EST. Do you think the Germans are building the UFOs people are seeing now? Wush and Eri..Wish you had watched it. It's over now. Eri...I'm not understanding your point.There are films from years ago of the Germans making and flying space ships. Then they stopped. I was wondering if maybe they didn't really stop. Asked by Deenie - Wed Jan 28 23:04:09 2009 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments A. A lot of the back-engineered Nazi stuff is still around. It's the US military using it though. The US military and NASA used project paperclip to bring over NAZI scientists like Von Braun and they have continued their programs ever since. Joseph Farrell is an author who write extensively about this subject. Amazing how many people DO NOT know about the Nazi UFOs. This is historical fact. Answered by Sam - Thu Jan 29 18:03:35 2009 Now that a former arizona governer claims the phoenix lights were ufos, what do you think?
Q. I just want to say Im not a believer, rather agnostic. Certainly there's ETs out thete, but can they travel here? Asked by Ms Congeniality - Tue Nov 13 14:40:46 2007 - - 12 Answers - 0 Comments A. If we don't know what they are, they're UFOs. I haven't heard what they might actually be. Obviously they're not ETs though. Answered by water_skipper - Tue Nov 13 19:41:53 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "UFOs"
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