unidentified flying object

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Instead of crashing, the unidentified flying object had “descended slowly, gently, like an old man settling into a bath.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Outlining the charge, Rob Coyne, prosecuting, said Dodd had shone the laser at the "bright light" thinking it was "an unidentified flying object".

From BBC • May 17, 2023

Mr. Fetkowitz noted that Alaska — where a U.S. fighter jet shot down the unidentified flying object on Friday — had more weather-balloon launching sites than any other state.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

“The public has seemingly heard about another new unidentified flying object seemingly on a daily basis,” McConnell said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

At 5:20P.M., exactly, the operations officer noted the time, word came in over the comm line that someone had sighted an unidentified flying object off to the north.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.