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'THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT'


THE UFO-A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object(usually abbreviated to UFO or U.F.O.) is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object. While a small percentage remain unexplained, the majority of UFO sightings are often later identified as any number of various natural phenomenon or man-made objects.

'DIFFERENT TYPES OF UFOS'

TRIANGULAR SHAPED- nearly always dark / black / charcoal grey. Typically shaped as equilateral triangles, or isosceles triangles (i.e. "wedge", "delta" / Big Black Deltas aka BBD), sometimes with rounded corners. Rare configurations include cases where the back side of the triangle is concave toward the front point, and diamond/rhomboid ("like StarWars destroyer") shaped UFOs. Most triangles are reported to have three "lights" on their underside, one at each corner, which shine downward. Sometimes, black triangles are reported to also have other lights, like a pulsating light at their center and brightly lit "panels" / "windows" on their sides or "faint strips of neon-like illumination around its edges".

SAUCER SHAPED-flat bottomed saucer, convex on one side. Sometimes the convex side is shallow (described as a "chrome hubcap" or "upside-down saucer") othertimes it has more depth, and the UFO looks hemi-spherical ("helmet", "silver dome", "bowl") or bell-shaped. Some UFOs have a turret or dome on top, occasionally transparent "like a cockpit"

CIGAR SHAPED-("fuselage" EX. like an airplane without wings, torpedo, missile etc) typically "bright silvery metallic"-looking or white ("like fluorescent tube lamp" or "white hyphen" or "pencil aglow"), and flying in the direction of its long axis. Large cigar shaped UFOs are often reported to be surrounded by a luminous "foggy haze" and may also have one or more "rings" / "stripes" / "bands" of different color around them, e.g. "a silver cigar with a dark band in the middle". Close-range sighting reports may mention "portholes" or "windows" along their length, often emitting light