UFO, or unidentified flying object, is an airborne entity that has not been identified or explained.
UFO, ufo, or Ufo may also refer to:
Technology
[edit]- .ufo, the file extension for Ulead PhotoImpact documents
- Unified File and Object (UFO), an object storage architecture
- UHF Follow-On satellite, a series of U.S. 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
[edit]Film and television
[edit]- UFO (1956 film), directed by Winston Jones
- U.F.O. (1993 film), starring Roy "Chubby" Brown
- U.F.O. (2012 film), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
- UFO (2018 film), directed by Ryan Eslinger, starring Alex Sharp and Gillian Anderson
- UFO (2022 film), a Turkish Netflix film
- UFO (American TV series), a 2021 television documentary by J. J. Abrams
- UFO (British TV series), a 1970s TV series by Gerry Anderson
- UFOs (TV series), a 2021 French TV series
- UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, a 2000s manga and anime television series
Music
[edit]Bands and performers
[edit]- UFO (musician) (born 1981), a Danish hip hop artist, rapper and singer
- Ufo361 (born 1988), a German rapper
- UFO (band), an English hard rock band
- UFO, the original name of the English R&B group, also known as JLS
- UFO Yepha, a Danish hip hop duo
- The Unidentified Flying Objects, an American rock band
- United Future Organization, a Japanese jazz duo
Albums
[edit]- U.F.O. (album), a 1969 album by Jim Sullivan
- UFO EP, by Torch
- UFO (Newton Faulkner EP), by Newton Faulkner
- UFO 1, a 1980 album by British rock band UFO
Songs
[edit]- "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.", a song by Blonde Redhead on their album La Mia Vita Violenta, 1995
- "UFO", a song by D-Block Europe and Aitch from the album The Blue Print: Us vs. Them, 2020
Other uses in music
[edit]- UFO (Daugherty), a composition by Michael Daugherty
- UFOetry, a multimedia UFO rock opera
Video games
[edit]- UFO Interactive Games, an American video game company
UFO Defense family
[edit]- UFO: Enemy Unknown, also known as X-COM: UFO Defense, 1994
- UFO: Aftermath, 2003
- UFO: Aftershock, 2005
- UFO: Afterlight, 2007
- UFO: Alien Invasion, 2003
Other video games
[edit]- UFO (video game), by Sublogic, 1989
- UFO Kamen Yakisoban, for Super Famicom, 1994
- U.F.O.s (video game), an adventure game by Artech, 1997
- UFO: A Day in the Life, by Love-de-Lic, 1999
- UFO: Extraterrestrials, by Chaos Concept, 2007
- Undefined Fantastic Object , the twelfth entry in the Touhou Project series by ZUN, 2009
Other uses in art, entertainment, and media
[edit]- UFOs: The Greatest Stories, a 1996 short-story anthology by Martin H. Greenberg
- U-Foes, a Marvel Comics supervillain team
Games and sports
[edit]- UFO, also known as a claw vending machine
- UFO, a style of delivery in tenpin bowling
Clubs
[edit]- Ufo (club, Berlin), an acid house club
- UFO Club, a London underground club
Products and services
[edit]- UFO, a brand of instant yakisoba
- UFO (restaurant), in Slovakia
- UFO (ride), an amusement park ride
- Jonway UFO, a Chinese compact crossover SUV
Other uses
[edit]- United Farmers of Ontario, a Canadian political party, c. 1920s
- UFO, a variant of float b-boy move
- Ufo (wasp), a genus of wasps
- UFO 34 (yacht), a sailboat
- UFO Radio, a radio station in Taiwan
- Uranium fluorine oxygen, also known as uranyl fluoride
- Ultra fast outflows, winds that come from supermassive black holes
- University of French Ontario, also known as Université de l'Ontario français
- Bob Della Serra (born 1951), a Canadian pro-wrestler with the ring names "The UFO", and as part of the "UFO" tag team, "UFO #1"
- Rocky Della Serra (born 1958), a Canadian pro-wrestler with the tag team wrestling ring name "UFO #2" as part of the "UFO" tag team
See also
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