UFO, or unidentified flying object, is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable.

UFO, ufo, or Ufo may also refer to:

Technology

  • .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

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

  • 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

Bands and performers

  • 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

  • U.F.O. (album), a 1969 album by Jim Sullivan
  • UFO EP, by Torch
  • UFO (Newton Faulkner EP), by Newton Faulkner
  • UFO 1, a 1970 album by British rock band UFO

Songs

  • "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

  • UFO (Daugherty), a composition by Michael Daugherty
  • UFOetry, a multimedia UFO rock opera

Video games

  • UFO Interactive Games, an American video game company

UFO Defense family

  • 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

  • UFO!, for the Magnavox Odyssey², 1981
  • UFO (video game), by Sublogic, 1989
  • UFO Kamen Yakisoban, for the 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 arts, entertainment and media

  • UFOs: The Greatest Stories, a 1996 short-story anthology by Martin H. Greenberg
  • U-Foes, a Marvel Comics supervillain team

Games and sports

  • UFO, also known as a claw vending machine
  • UFO, a style of delivery in tenpin bowling

Clubs

  • Ufo (club, Berlin), an acid house club
  • UFO Club, a London underground club

Products and services

  • 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

  • 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

  • Unidentified flying object (disambiguation)
  • Flying saucer (disambiguation)