UFO stands for 'unidentified flying object'. It is the popular name for anything believed to be a spacecraft of some sort, though it can be used for any flying object which has not been identified.
2006-12-06 00:14:29
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answered by Skippy 5
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A UFO or Unidentified Flying Object is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation.
Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947. Many tens of thousands of such claimed observations have since been reported worldwide, and it is very likely many more go unreported due to fear of public ridicule because of the Social stigma created around the UFO topic.
In popular culture throughout the world, UFO is commonly used to refer to any hypothetical alien spacecraft but the term flying saucer is also regularly used. Once a UFO is identified as a known object (for example an aircraft or weather balloon), it ceases to be a UFO and becomes an identified object. In such cases it is inaccurate to continue to use the acronym UFO to describe the object.
2006-12-06 10:06:14
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answered by frankfieldsjr 2
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Unidentified Flying Object
2006-12-06 08:55:33
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answered by bldudas 4
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Unidentified Flying Object
2006-12-06 08:12:29
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answered by Christian G 1
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Unidentified Flying Object.
2006-12-06 08:12:36
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answered by CML 2
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A UFO or Unidentified Flying Object is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation.
2006-12-06 08:12:54
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answered by rooney 4
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Unidentified Flying Objects A UFO or unidentified flying object in the original, literal sense is any airborne object or optical phenomenon, detected visually or by radar, whose nature is not readily known. Interest in these objects stems from continued speculation that some of them may be the products of extraterrestrial intelligence
2006-12-06 08:09:59
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answered by amalia372005 5
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UFO - unidentified flying object. Sometimes theres a pun on this; unidentified FRYING object or the like.
2006-12-06 08:13:53
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answered by Jackie 2
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U - Unidentified
F - Flying
O - Object
2006-12-06 08:49:32
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answered by Anonymous
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