Ufology, the Glossary
Ufology is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors).[1]
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96 relations: -logy, Alien abduction, Alien implants, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Ancient Greek, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Avi Loeb, BBC News, Carl Sagan, Cattle mutilation, Close encounter, CNES, Cold War, Condon Committee, Crop circle, Da Capo Press, Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Edward J. Ruppelt, Europe, Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis, Falsifiability, Flying saucer, Flying Saucer Working Party, Foo fighter, Fourth International Posadist, Fringe science, Gallup, Inc., GEIPAN, Ghost rockets, Ground Observer Corps, Hessdalen lights, Identification studies of UFOs, Interdimensional UFO hypothesis, Iowa Academy of Science, J. Allen Hynek, J. Posadas, Jacques Vallée, James E. McDonald, Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting, List of investigations of UFOs by governments, List of reported UFO sightings, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, List of UFO organizations, List of ufologists, Majestic 12, Mark McInerney, Mystery airship, National Press Club (United States), Neologism, ... Expand index (46 more) »
-logy
-logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in.
Alien abduction
Alien abduction (also called abduction phenomenon, alien abduction syndrome, or UFO abduction) refers to the phenomenon of people reporting what they believe to be the real experience of being kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings and subjected to physical and psychological experimentation.
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Alien implants
In ufology, alien implants is a term used to describe physical objects allegedly placed in someone's body after they have been abducted by aliens.
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All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and other phenomena in the air, sea, and/or space and/or on land: sometimes referred to as "unidentified aerial phenomena" or "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP).
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is an American scientific and educational organization, founded in San Francisco on February 7, 1889, immediately following the solar eclipse of January 1, 1889.
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Avi Loeb
Abraham "Avi" Loeb (אברהם (אבי) לייב; born February 26, 1962) is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.
Cattle mutilation
Cattle mutilation (also known as bovine excision and unexplained livestock death, or animal mutilation) is the killing and mutilation of cattle under supposedly unusual, usually bloodless circumstances.
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Close encounter
In ufology, a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object (UFO).
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CNES
CNES is the French national space agency.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Condon Committee
The Condon Committee was the informal name of the University of Colorado UFO Project, a group funded by the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1968 at the University of Colorado to study unidentified flying objects under the direction of physicist Edward Condon.
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Crop circle
A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal.
Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dag Hammarskjöld Library
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is a library on the grounds of the headquarters of the United Nations, located in the Turtle Bay/East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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Edward J. Ruppelt
Edward James Ruppelt (July 17, 1923 – September 15, 1960) was a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (sometimes shortened to ECREE), also known as the Sagan standard, is an aphorism popularized by science communicator Carl Sagan.
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The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being physical spacecraft occupied by extraterrestrial intelligence or non-human aliens, or non-occupied alien probes from other planets visiting Earth.
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Falsifiability
Falsifiability (or refutability) is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses, introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934).
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Flying saucer
A flying saucer is a purported disc-shaped UFO.
Flying Saucer Working Party
Flying Saucer Working Party (or FSWP) was the name of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) first "official study into UFOs", which has its roots in a study commissioned in 1950 by the MOD’s then Chief Scientific Adviser, the eminent radar scientist Sir Henry Tizard.
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Foo fighter
The term foo fighters was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
Fourth International Posadist
The Fourth International Posadist is a Trotskyist international organisation.
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Fringe science
Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already refuted.
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Gallup, Inc.
Gallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
GEIPAN
GEIPAN (an acronym for Groupe d'Études et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés or Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon Research and Information Group)(), is a unit of the French Space Agency CNES whose brief is to investigate unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAP), and make its findings available to the public.
Ghost rockets
Ghost rockets (Spökraketer, also called Scandinavian ghost rockets) were rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries like Finland.
Ground Observer Corps
The Ground Observer Corps (GOC), sometimes erroneously referred to as the Ground Observation Corps, was the name of two American civil defense organizations during the middle 20th century.
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Hessdalen lights
The Hessdalen lights are unidentified lights which have been observed in a stretch of the Hessdalen valley in rural central Norway periodically since at least the 1930s.
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Identification studies of UFOs
Identifying unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is a difficult task due to the normally poor quality of the evidence provided by those who report sighting the unknown object.
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Interdimensional UFO hypothesis
The interdimensional hypothesis is a proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of experiencing other "dimensions" that coexist separately alongside our own in contrast with either the extraterrestrial hypothesis that suggests UFO sightings are caused by visitations from outside the Earth or the psychosocial hypothesis that argues UFO sightings are best explained as psychological or social phenomenon.
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Iowa Academy of Science
The Iowa Academy of Science is the oldest existing scientific association in Iowa, founded in 1875.
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J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 – April 27, 1986) was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist.
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J. Posadas
Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli (January 20, 1912 – May 14, 1981), better known under the pseudonym J. Posadas or sometimes Juan Posadas, was an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism.
Jacques Vallée
Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
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James E. McDonald
James Edward McDonald (May 7, 1920 – June 13, 1971) was an American physicist.
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Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting
The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/h).
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List of investigations of UFOs by governments
This is a list of government-sponsored investigations or reports related to UFOs.
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List of reported UFO sightings
This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related claims of close encounters or abductions.
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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
This is a list of topics that have, either currently or in the past, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.
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List of UFO organizations
This is a list of notable non-governmental UFO organizations located around the world.
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List of ufologists
This is a list of notable people who are ufologists (people who believe UFOs are linked to extraterrestrial aliens).
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Majestic 12
Majestic 12, also known as Majic-12, and MJ-12 for short, is a purported organization that appears in UFO conspiracy theories.
Mark McInerney
Mark A. McInerney is an American meteorologist, climate data scientist, and employee at NASA.
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Mystery airship
The mystery airship or phantom airship was a phenomenon that thousands of people across the United States claimed to have observed from late 1896 through mid 1897.
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National Press Club (United States)
The National Press Club is a professional organization and social community in Washington, D.C. for journalists and communications professionals.
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Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Peter A. Sturrock
Peter Andrew Sturrock (born 20 March 1924) is a British scientist.
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Physics World
Physics World is the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, one of the largest physical societies in the world.
Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.
Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book was the code name for the systematic study of unidentified flying objects by the United States Air Force from March 1952 to its termination on December 17, 1969.
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Project Condign
Project Condign (not to be confused with the Condon Committee) was a secret unidentified flying object (UFO) study undertaken by the British Government's Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) between 1997 and 2000.
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Project Magnet (UFO)
Project Magnet was an unidentified flying object (UFO) study programme established by Transport Canada in December 1950 under the direction of Wilbert Brockhouse Smith, senior radio engineer for Transport Canada's Broadcast and Measurements Section.
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Project Sign
Project Sign or Project Saucer was an official U.S. government study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) undertaken by the United States Air Force (USAF) and active for most of 1948.
Prometheus Books
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.
In ufology, the psychosocial hypothesis, abbreviated PSH, argues that at least some UFO reports are best explained by psychological or social means.
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RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
Robert Sheaffer
Robert Sheaffer (born 1949) is an American freelance writer and UFO skeptic.
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Robertson Panel
The Robertson Panel was a scientific committee which met in January 1953 headed by Howard P. Robertson.
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Roswell incident
The Roswell incident is a conspiracy theory which alleges that the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico was actually caused by an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
Science communication
Science communication encompasses a wide range of activities that connect science and society.
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Science education
Science education is the teaching and learning of science to school children, college students, or adults within the general public.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Scientific method
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.
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Scientific skepticism
Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.
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Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American general-audience magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.
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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
Society for Scientific Exploration
The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) is a group committed to studying fringe science.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Steven M. Greer
Steven Macon Greer (born 1955) is an American ufologist and retired physician.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Phenomenon (2020 film)
The Phenomenon is a 2020 documentary film written and produced by ufologist James Fox.
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The Physics Teacher
The Physics Teacher is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by AIP Publishing on behalf of the American Association of Physics Teachers covering the history and philosophy of physics, applied physics, physics education (curriculum developments, pedagogy, instructional lab equipment, etc.), and book reviews.
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Time-traveler UFO hypothesis
The time-traveler hypothesis, also known as chrononaut UFO, future humans, extratempestrial model and Terminator theory is the proposal that unidentified flying objects are humans traveling from the future using advanced technology.
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Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.
UFO conspiracy theories
UFO conspiracy theories are a subset of conspiracy theories which argue that various governments and politicians globally, in particular the United States government, are suppressing evidence that unidentified flying objects are controlled by a non-human intelligence or built using alien technology.
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UFO religion
A UFO religion is any religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial (ET) entities operating unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is an element of belief.
UFOs in fiction
Many works of fiction have featured UFOs.
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Unidentified flying object
An unidentified flying object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.
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University of Würzburg
The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany.
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Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
World UFO Day
World UFO Day is an awareness day for people to gather together and watch the skies for unidentified flying objects (UFO).
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufology
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