UFO
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- noun
- /ˈjuːˌɛfˈoʊ/
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- The report detailed several recent UFO sightings by the military that raised public interest.
- a UFO sighting
- see a UFO
- a UFO report
Let's say you did spot a UFO, right, Right.
- Let's say you did spot a UFO, right, Right.
- Just like how the US government are doing with UFOs, right?
- If you believe that UFOs can be made right.
- It was very different than the UFO that was captured weeks before.
- We're given these contracts decades ago for UFO crash retrievals.
- And there's actually been like hundreds of thousands of UFO sightings, right?
- We've got weird stuff about UFOs with people making the craziest allegations.
- Well, did you get to see a UFO?
- And he claims that he worked on these UFOs.
- So so what's going on in the latest with UFOs?
- I know I am a total skeptic when it comes to UFOs.
- Do presidents of the United States know about UFOs?
- You wrote the book American Cosmic UFOs, Religion, Technology.
Examples
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Federal agents and military types don't show up every time someone claims a UFO has been sighted.
Fiction book (2002) -
Sociologists of religion have noted that the UFO movement increasingly looks like a religious movement.
Academic text (1995) -
Can you explain to the people what the UFO hearing is and why?
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The Navy has had UFO sightings every day for two years.
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It was discovered at the site of a UFO crash.
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We have had UFOs, unknown foreign objects in our orbit.
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Well, 1952, you had the UFOs over Washington, D.C.
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Three colleges offered their first courses in UFO abductions during the twentieth century.
Fiction book (1999) -
You do know you're near the world's 5th biggest UFO siting?
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UFO chasers, alien trackers, and extraterrestrial enthusiasts.
Synonyms
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A round flat object in the sky that people think comes from another planet
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A flying object seen in the sky whose origin is not known and often thought to be from space
Surface Forms
Morphology
UFO = unidentified + flying + object (semi-transparent) = U + F + O
The term is an initialism formed directly from the phrase 'unidentified flying object', so the meaning follows transparently from the component words. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]
Etymology
UFO is a short form of the three words unidentified, flying, and object, a phrase first used by the military for any 'not identified' thing seen in the sky. So a UFO today still means a flying 'object' people cannot identify and often makes them think of aliens.