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A UFO (or unidentified flying object) is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.

UFO also may refer to:

Computer technology

  • .ufo, the file extension for Ulead PhotoImpact documents
  • Unified File and Object (UFO), object storage architecture
  • UHF Follow-On satellite, a series of US military communications satellites
  • Unified Font Object, an XML-based future proof open format for digital fonts
  • Unified Foundational Ontology, an upper ontology for conceptual modelling purposes.

Art, entertainment and media

Film and television

  • UFO (1956 film), directed by Winston Jones
  • U.F.O. (1993 film), starring Roy "Chubby" Brown
  • U.F.O. (2012 film), with Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • UFO (2018 film), directed by Ryan Eslinger, starring Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, about an airport sighting
  • UFO (2022 film), a Turkish Netflix film
  • UFO (American TV series), 2021 television documentary by J.J. Abrams
  • UFO (British TV series), 1970s TV series by Gerry Anderson
  • UFOs (TV series), 2021 French TV series
  • UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, 2000s manga and anime television series

Music

Bands and performers

  • UFO (musician) (born 1981), Danish hip hop artist, rapper and singer
  • Ufo361 (born 1988), German rapper
  • UFO (band), an English hard rock band
  • UFO, the original name of the English R&B group better known as JLS
  • UFO Yepha, Danish hip hop duo

We* The Unidentified Flying Objects, an American rock band

  • United Future Organization, a Japanese jazz duo

Albums

  • U.F.O. (album), a 1969 album by Jim Sullivan
  • UFO EP, by Torch
  • UFO (Newton Faulkner EP), by Newton Faulkner

Songs

  • "UFO" (Mallrat song featuring Allday), (2018)
  • "UFO" (Pink Lady song) (1977)
  • "UFO", song by ESG on their EP ESG (1981)
  • "UFO" (Sneaky Sound System song) (2007)
  • "U.F.O." (Coldplay song) (2011)
  • "UFO" (Vigiland song) (2014)
  • "U.F.O.", song by Blonde Redhead on their album La Mia Vita Violenta (1995)
  • "UFO", song by D-Block Europe and Aitch from the album The Blue Print: Us vs. Them (2020)

Other musical works

  • UFO (Michael Daugherty composition)
  • UFOetry, multimedia UFO rock opera

Video games

  • UFO Interactive Games, American video game company

UFO Defense family

  • UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994), AKA X-COM: UFO Defense
  • UFO: Aftermath (2003)
  • UFO: Aftershock (2005)
  • UFO: Afterlight (2007)
  • UFO: Alien Invasion (2003)

Other video games

  • UFO (1989) by Sublogic
  • UFO Kamen Yakisoban (1994) for Super Famicom
  • U.F.O.s (1997), adventure game by Artech
  • UFO: A Day in the Life (1999) by Love-de-Lic
  • UFO: Extraterrestrials (2007) by Chaos Concept
  • Undefined Fantastic Object (2009), the twelfth entry in the Touhou Project series by ZUN

Other works

  • UFOs: The Greatest Stories, 1996 short-story anthology by Martin H. Greenberg

Games and sports

  • Claw vending machine AKA UFO
  • UFO, a style of delivery in Ten-pin bowling

Clubs

  • Ufo (Club, Berlin), Acid House club
  • UFO Club, London underground club

Products and services

  • UFO, brand of instant yakisoba
  • UFO (restaurant) in Slovakia
  • UFO (ride), amusement park ride

Other uses

  • United Farmers of Ontario, Canadian political party c. 1920s
  • UFO, variant of float b-boy move
  • Ufo (wasp), genus of wasps
  • UFO 34 (yacht), a sailboat
  • UFO Radio, a radio station in Taiwan
  • Uranium Fluorine Oxygen
  • Ultra Fast Outflows, winds that come from supermassive black holes
  • University of French Ontario, referring to the Université de l'Ontario français

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: UFO para niños

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