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'''Unidentifed Flying Objects''' or UFOs are anything that flies that can not be identified. UFOs sightings are classified according to shape, type and distance from the observer. UFOs were also known as Flying Saucers after Associated Press reporter Bill Bequette that the objects behaved like a rock or saucer. This was in reference to airplane pilot Kenneth Arnold's 1947 UFO sighting. A headline writer coined the term Flying Saucer and the name stuck. The objects Arnold reported were crescent, not saucer, shaped but the name Flying Saucer was used to describe them.<ref>[http://www.mufon.com/faq.htm#ufology MUFON]</ref>
'''Unidentifed Flying Objects''' or UFOs are anything that flies that can not be identified. UFOs sightings are classified according to shape, type and distance from the observer. UFOs were also known as Flying Saucers after Associated Press reporter Bill Bequette that the objects behaved like a rock or saucer. This was in reference to airplane pilot [[Kenneth Arnold]]'s 1947 UFO sighting. A headline writer coined the term Flying Saucer and the name stuck. The objects Arnold reported were crescent, not saucer, shaped but the name Flying Saucer was used to describe them.<ref>[http://www.mufon.com/faq.htm#ufology MUFON]</ref>


== UFO Classification ==
== UFO Classification ==
==Hynek's Classification ==
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== References ==
== References ==
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[http://www.mufon.com/faq.htm#ufology MUFON]
[http://www.mufon.com/faq.htm#ufology MUFON]
[http://www.cufos.org/HynekClass.html CUFOs]

Revision as of 21:19, 21 July 2010

INUSE

Unidentifed Flying Objects or UFOs are anything that flies that can not be identified. UFOs sightings are classified according to shape, type and distance from the observer. UFOs were also known as Flying Saucers after Associated Press reporter Bill Bequette that the objects behaved like a rock or saucer. This was in reference to airplane pilot Kenneth Arnold's 1947 UFO sighting. A headline writer coined the term Flying Saucer and the name stuck. The objects Arnold reported were crescent, not saucer, shaped but the name Flying Saucer was used to describe them.[1]

UFO Classification

Hynek's Classification


References

MUFON CUFOs