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Definition: UFO |
UFONoun1. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | UFO |
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- Band: UFO
- CD: Ain't Misbehavin'
- Parental Advisory: No
- In-Print: Yes
- Released Date: January 24, 1989
- Number Of Discs: 1
- Genre: Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal music
Tracks
- Between A Rock And A Hard Place
- Another Saturday Night
- At War With The World
- Hunger In The Night
- Easy Money
- Rock Boyz, Rock
- Lonely Cities (Of The Heart)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ain't Misbehavin' (UFO album)."
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- Band: UFO
- CD: Anthology
- Parental Advisory: No
- In-Print: No
- Released Date: November 11, 1986
- Number Of Discs: 1
- Genre: Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal music
- Recorded between: 1973-1983
Tracks
- Rock Bottom
- Built For Comfort
- Highway Lady
- Can You Roll Her
- A Fool For Love
- Shoot Shoot
- Too Hot To Handle
- Gettin' Ready
- Only You Can Rock Me
- Looking For No. 1
- Something Else
- Doing It All For You
- When It's Time To Rock
- Diesel In The Dust
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anthology (UFO album)."
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- Band: UFO
- CD: Covenant
- Parental Advisory: No
- In-Print: Yes
- Released Date: October 19, 1999
- Number Of Discs: 2
- Genre: Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal music
Tracks for disc 1
- Love Is Forever
- Unraveled
- Miss The Lights
- Midnight Train
- Fool's Gold
- In The Middle Of Madness
- The Smell Of Money
- Rise Again
- Cowboy Joe
- The World And His Dog
Tracks for disc 2
- Mother Mary
- This Kids
- Let It Roll
- Out In The Street
- Venus
- Pushed To The Limit
- Love To Love
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Covenant (UFO album)."
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- Band: UFO
- CD: Obsession
- Parental Advisory: No
- In-Print: Yes
- Released Date: October 3, 1978
- Number Of Discs: 1
- Genre: Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal music
Tracks
- Only You Can Rock Me
- Pack It Up (And Go)
- Arbory Hill
- Ain't No Baby
- Lookin' Out For No. 1
- Hot 'N' Ready
- Cherry
- You Don't Fool Me
- Lookin' Out For No. 1 (Reprise)
- One More For The Rodeo
- Born To Lose
Singles
1978:1979:
- August 1978 - "One More For The Rodeo"
- November 1978 - "Cherry"
- December 1978 - "You Don't Fool Me"
- January 1979 - "You Don't Fool Me" (Video and Promo only)
- March 1979 - "Only You Can Rock Me"
- June 1979 - "Pack It Up (And Go)"
- September 1979 - "Lookin' Out For No. 1"
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Obsession (UFO album)."
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- Band: UFO
- CD: Phenomenon
- Parental Advisory: No
- In-Print: Yes
- Released Date: May 14, 1974
- Number Of Discs: 1
- Genre: Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal music
Tracks
- Oh My
- Crystal Light
- Doctor Doctor
- Space Child
- Rock Bottom
- Too Young To No
- A Time On My Hands
- Built For Comfort
- Lipstick Traces
- Queen Of The Deep
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Phenomenon (UFO album)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about Unidentified Flying Objects. For information about the rock band see UFO. For information about the Gerry Anderson science fiction TV series see UFO.UFO is an abbreviation or acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. In a literal sense it includes any airborne object whose nature is not known, but more often it is applied to those cases that are believed by some to be the spaceships of extraterrestrial aliens.
UFOs have been subject to many studies over the years, with a wide range of scope and scientific rigor. One well-known study was Project Bluebook, conducted by the United States Air Force. The idea that UFOs are in fact alien spacecraft is discounted by most scientists, because many such sightings have been explained in terms of known natural phenomena or human activity, and there is a lack of evidence corroborating eyewitness accounts which purport otherwise.
A group encouraging open minded and critical investigation of the alien spacecraft hypothesis from a scientific point of view is the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. CSICOP has existed 28 years, and has previously included such people as TV science program host Bill Nye, Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan. Its current main proponents are Philip Klass and James Randi.
The study of UFO claims over the years has led to valuable discoveries about atmospheric phenomena and psychology. In psychology, the study of UFOs leads to such concepts as misinterpretation, perceptual illusion, hallucination and fantasy-prone personality. The study of abduction phenomena especially shows that hypnosis is not a valid method for revealing memory.
The field of UFOs should not necessarily be confused or intermingled with "the paranormal". The UFO phenomenon need not have a paranormal explanation, though those who believe in UFOs may also have a fascination with the paranormal. UFOs are sometimes claimed to be part of an elaborate UFO conspiracy theory in which the government is said to be intentionally covering up the existence of aliens.
See also: flying saucer, truth, obtuse nature, crop circle, List of major UFO sightings.
External Links
Supposed UFO's-
- The Disclosure Project
- The Coalition for Freedom of Information (sponsored by the Sci-Fi Channel)
- CSICOP homepage
- A serious research page for scientists and astronomers, authored by a professional Astronomer.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "UFO."
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This article is about the rock band UFO. For information about Unidentified Flying Objects seee UFO. For information about the Gerry Anderson science fiction TV series see UFO
- The factual accuracy of this article is disputed
UFO is a rock band.
Line-Up
- Phil Mogg - Singer
- Andy Parker - Drums
- Pete Way - Bass
- Michael Schenker - Guitar
Discography
'\Albums':Greatest Hits Albums:
- UFO (1971)
- Flying (1972)
- Phenomenon (1974)
- Force It (1975)
- No Heavy Petting (1976)
- Lights Out (1977)
- Obsession (1978)
- No Place To Run (1980)
- The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent (1981)
- Mechanix (1982)
- Making Contact (1983)
- Misdemeanor (1985)
- Ain't Misbehavin' (1989)
- T.N.T (1993)
- Walk On Water (1995)
- High Stakes & Dangerous Men (1996)
- On With The Acton (1998)
- Sharks (2002)
Live Albums:
- Space Metal (1976)
- Anthology (1986)
- The Essential UFO (1992)
- Best Of UFO: Gold Collection (1999)
- Covenant (1999)
- Live (1972)
- Live In Concert (1974)
- Lights Out In Tokyo (1978)
- Strangers In The Night (1979)
- Live In Japan (1992)
- Live In Texas (1994)
- Heaven's Gate (1995)
- X-Factor: Out There & Back (1997)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "UFO (band)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
- Band: UFO
- CD: UFO
- Parental Advisory: No
- In-Print: Yes
- Released Date: October 5, 1971
- Number Of Discs: 1
- Genre: Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal music
Tracks
- Unidentified Flying Object
- Boogie
- C'mon Everybody
- Shake It About
- (Come Away) Melinda
- Timothy
- Follow Me Home
- Treacle People
- Who Do You Love?
- Evil
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Unidentified Flying Object (UFO album)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
UFO | English | Users Files On-Line | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: UFOSynonyms: flying saucer (n), unidentified flying object (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: UFO |
| Specialty definitions using "UFO": TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "UFO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (ufo), Dutch (UFO), German (ufo), Italian (for free, for nothing, free of charge), Swedish (ufo), Turkish (unidentified flying object, unknown flying object). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | There's a UFO over New York and I ain't too surprised (Nobody Told Me; performing artist: John Lennon) | |
Clever | I saw Elvis. He sat between me and Bigfoot on the UFO. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | UFO Contatto radar. Stanno atterrando. (1974) Invasion: UFO (1972) UFO (1970) Overlords of the UFO (1970) UFO Over Illinois (2000) | |
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| "UFO" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Unidentified floating object ." | "Ufo" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "A ufo is landing in the fog ;)." |
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| "UFO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "UFO" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.29% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (common) | 7.14% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.57% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "UFO": ufo-detecting, ufo-lore, ufo-spotting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ufo | 9,428 | aftermath ufo | 46 |
ufo picture | 773 | administration aeronautics national space ufo | 42 |
ufo sighting | 471 | ufo footage | 42 |
ufo photo | 254 | ufo report | 41 |
ufo video | 220 | space station ufo | 38 |
alien and ufo | 173 | rod ufo | 37 |
orbit ufo | 157 | enemy ufo unknown | 35 |
ufo pic | 144 | ufo abduction | 35 |
ufo plastic | 112 | ufo research | 34 |
ufo pants | 112 | recent ufo sighting | 34 |
ufo s | 99 | ufo wtc | 32 |
reporting ufo | 83 | ufo sitings | 32 |
ufo clothing | 65 | xcom ufo defense | 32 |
roswell ufo | 63 | ufo are real | 30 |
ufo news | 56 | ufo magazine | 27 |
x com ufo defense | 55 | ufo information | 26 |
nazi ufo | 54 | ufo photograph | 25 |
ufo story | 53 | ufo image | 25 |
alien ufo picture | 49 | golf ufo | 24 |
bible ufo | 47 | band ufo | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "UFO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkurtim për unidentified flying objekt, disk fluturues (flying saucer). (various references) | |
Arabic | جسم غامض. (various references) | |
Chinese | 飞碟 (Frisbee). (various references) | |
Czech | ufo, neidentifikovaný létající objekt, létající talíř (flying, flying saucer). (various references) | |
Dutch | ufo. (various references) | |
French | ovni. (various references) | |
German | Ufo. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ufó (u.f.o., unidentified flying object). (various references) | |
Italian | oggetto volante non indeficato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ユーコン准州 (eugenics, eunos, euphemism, European television satellite, Eutelsat, euthanasia, euthanasie, humor, submarine, U-boat, ufology, unidentified flying object, usance, usance bill, used car, user, user interface, user-friendly, users, utility, utility program, utility room, utopia, U-turn, youth, youth hostel, youth market, Yugoslavia, Yukon Territory). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ユーフォー (unidentified flying object). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oufay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | objeto voador não identificado (unidentified flying object). (various references) | |
Russian | нло (u.f.o., ufos). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | unidentified flying object. (various references) | |
Spanish | ovni. (various references) | |
Swedish | ufo, oidentifierat flygande föremål, flygandetefat (flying saucer). (various references) | |
Turkish | uçan daire (flying saucer, unidentified flying object), belirlenemeyen uçan cisim. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UFO": ufological, ufologies, ufologist, ufologists, ufology. (additional references) | |
Words containing "UFO": rufous, tufoli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fou. | |
| Words within the letters "f-o-u" | |
-1 letter: of. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-o-u" | |
+1 letter: foul, four, pouf, tofu. | |
+2 letters: afoul, buffo, flour, flout, fluor, focus, fondu, forum, fouls, found, fount, fours, fugio, fungo, furor, futon, pouff, poufs, sulfo, tofus, woful. | |
+3 letters: befoul, bouffe, boxful, buffos, cutoff, doofus, famous, favour, flours, floury, flouts, fluors, foetus, folium, fondue, fondus, forums, fought, fouled, fouler, foully, founds, founts, fourth, frouzy, fucoid, fucose, fucous, fugato, fugios, furore, furors, furrow, fusion, futons, joyful, offcut, outfit, outfly, outfox, potful, poufed, pouffe, pouffs, putoff, ruboff, rufous, runoff, sobful, topful, tufoli, unfold, unfond, unroof, upflow, upfold, woeful. | |
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