English
An unidentified flying object photographed in Belgium in 1990.
Noun
unidentified flying object (plural unidentified flying objects)
- Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air, primarily used to refer to objects that seem to be at least of small familiar aircraft size. Abbreviated UFO.
- The lights seen over the city last night, originally termed unidentified flying objects, turned out to be spotlights from a car dealership reflecting on low clouds.
- (colloquial) An alien spacecraft. More commonly called a UFO.
Synonyms
Translations
anything in the air not readily explainable
- Armenian: չբացահայտված թռչող օբյեկտ (čʿbacʿahaytvac tʿṙčʿoł ōbyekt)
- Asturian: oxetu esnalador non identificáu m
- Azeri: naməlum uçan obyekt, (abbreviation) NUO
- Basque: objektu hegalari ezezagun
- Catalan: objecte volador no identificat m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不明飛行物, 不明飞行物 (bùmíng fēixíngwù), 飛碟 (zh), 飞碟 (zh) (fēidié), 幽浮 (zh) (yōufú)
- Czech: neidentifikovatelný létající předmět m, UFO (cs) m (abbreviation)
- Dutch: UFO (nl) n (abbreviation)
- Esperanto: ne-identifita flug-objekto, NIFO (abbreviation)
- Finnish: tunnistamaton lentävä esine; UFO (fi), ufo (fi) (abbreviations)
- French: objet volant non-identifié m, OVNI (fr) m (abbreviation)
- Georgian: ამოუცნობი მფრინავი ობიექტი (amoucnobi mprinavi obiekṭi)
- German: unidentifiziertes Flugobjekt n, UFO (de) n (abbreviation)
- Greek: άγνωστης ταυτότητας ιπτάμενο αντικείμενο (ágnostis taftótitas iptámeno antikeímeno), ΑΤΙΑ (el) (ATIA) (abbreviation)
- Hindi: उड़न तश्तरी (uṛan taśtarī)
- Icelandic: fljúgandi furðuhlutur (is) m, FFH n (abbreviation)
- Italian: oggetto volante non identificato m, OVNI (it) m (abbreviation)
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- Japanese: ＵＦＯ (ja) (ユーフォー, Yūfō), 未確認飛行物体 (mikakunin-hikō-buttai)
- Kannada: ಅಪರಿಚಿತ ಹಾರಾಡುವ ವಸ್ತು (aparicita hārāḍuva vastu)
- Korean: 미확인비행물체 (ko) (mihwaginbihaengmulche)
- Macedonian: неидентификуван летечки објект m (neidentifikuvan letečki objekt), НЛО (mk) (NLO) (abbreviation)
- Mongolian: үл танигдах нисдэг биет (ül tanigdah nisdeg bijet), ҮТНБ (ÜTNB)
- Norwegian: uidentifisert flygende objekt n
- Polish: niezidentyfikowany obiekt latający (pl) m
- Portuguese: objeto voador não-identificado m
- Russian: неопо́знанный лета́ющий объе́кт (ru) m (neopóznannyj letájuščij obʺjékt), НЛО (ru) m (NLO) (abbreviation)
- Sinhalese: හඳුනා නොගත් පියාඹන වස්තූන් (han̆dunā nogat piyām̆bana vastūn)
- Spanish: objeto volador no identificado m
- Swedish: Oidentifierat flygande föremål; Oidentifierat flygande objekt, UFO (sv) (abbreviation)
- Tamil: அடையாளம் கண்டுபிடிக்க முடியாத பறக்கும் பொருள் (aṭaiyāḷam kaṇṭupiṭikka muṭiyāta paṟakkum poruḷ)
- Telugu: గుర్తించబడని ఎగురుతున్న వస్తువు (gurtiṃcabaḍani egurutunna vastuvu)
- Vietnamese: tàu bay chưa nhận biết, đĩa bay
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colloquial: an alien spacecraft
- Azeri: naməlum uçan obyekt, (abbreviation) NUO
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 飛碟 (zh), 飞碟 (zh) (fēidié)
- Finnish: ufo (fi)
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