Noun
Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
(colloquial) An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft. [from 20th c.]
ufo (plural ufos)
A UFO.
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter...I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done...But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger. Syd Barrett
Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology. Lucio Russo
I had directed drawpipes, connected with the deep well, toward an ordinary star, and the start had faded out four times. There was no mistake about it. Three more people had seen it. There was only one conclusion: The thing we had drawn from was not a star. It was something else; a UFO. Wilhelm Reich
So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government. Betty Hill
Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up. Michael Schenker
I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them. Barry Goldwater