Unidentified Flying Objects - Unidentified Flying Object, Rod, Ufology, Green Fireballs, Gary McKinnon, Flying Saucer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Unidentified flying object, Rod, Ufology, Green fireballs, Gary McKinnon, Flying saucer, Identification studies of UFOs, Mystery airship, Foo fighter, Bridgewater Triangle, Nazi UFOs, Ghost rockets, Vaimanika Shastra, Black triangle, Charlie Redstar, Kodiak Island UFO Incident, Berwyn Mountain UFO incident, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, Lenticular Reentry Vehicle, Chupa, Magonia, Declassification of UFO documents, Fastwalkers, Cefora, Index of ufology articles, Coalition for Freedom of Information. Excerpt: An unidentified flying object (usually abbreviated to UFO or U.F.O.) is any unusual apparent object in the sky that is not identified. This term originated in the military. The UFO may be a missing-route airplane, spy airplane, enemy surprise attack or a missile, among other things, and may be a threat to national security. Therefore, an emergency take-off of battle planes is necessary. If it is not identified, it remains a UFO in the official record. However, more loosely the term UFO refers to supposed alien spacecraft, being one explanation (among several; see extraterrestrial hypothesis) offered for such sightings. Though UFO sightings have occurred throughout recorded history, modern interest in them dates from World War II (see foo fighter), and was further fueled by the Roswell UFO Incident and Kenneth Arnold's coining of the term flying saucer (both of which immediately followed the war); since when governments have investigated UFO reports, often from a military perspective- and UFO researchers have investigated, written about, and created organizations devoted to the subject. One such investigation, The UK's Project Condign report, notes that Russian, Former Soviet Republics, and Chinese authorities have made a co-ordinated effort to understand the UFO topic and that State military organizations, particularly...