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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
• 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

• U-Foes, Marvel Comics supervillain team
• Unidentified flying object (disambiguation)
• Flying saucer (disambiguation)
• Alien (disambiguation)

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