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unidentified flying object: Quick Facts

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Also Known As unidentified aerial phenomenon • UAP • unexplained aerial phenomenon • UFO • flying saucer

Did You Know?

  • In the 1990s thousands of individuals claimed that their UFO sighting had resulted in an abduction by aliens.
  • The assumption that strange lights or objects in the sky are related to aliens is relatively new, only found in the last century or so.
  • Venus is one of the objects most commonly mistaken for a UFO.

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The Flying Saucer as I Saw It
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Declassified U.S. military video of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)
A weathered sign reading "UFO CRASH SITE" and "UFO Museum - 114 N. Main - Roswell" stands in a scrubby desert landscape under a clear blue sky.
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