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ufologist

US/ˌjuːˈfɑləd͡ʒɪst/

ufologist noun: a person who studies UFOs.

Noun (1)

ufologist (plural ufologists)

  1. A person who studies UFOs.
    • Still, something strange was afoot in Rendlesham, and even if the file is unlikely to satisfy either ufologists or debunkers, it suggests that the truth is still out there.2002 December 8, Scott Veale, “Word for Word/The Rendlesham File; Let There Be Lights: Britons Get One Less Thing to Worry About”, in The New York Times
    • But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 122

Noun (2) capitalized: UFOlogist

UFOlogist (plural UFOlogists)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ufologist.
    • New Brunswick nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman may not have coined the phrase cosmic Watergate, but he claims to have used it more often than any living UFOlogist. First used in the wake of the Republican break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex, Washington, DC, the term...1990 December, D. Stacy, T. Sanda, “The alien almanac”, in Omni, volume 13, number 3, pages 97–105
    • Some UFOlogists claim to have determined the different species of aliens, which star systems they’ve come from, what their technology is like, and where their underground bases are. This makes it hard to imagine a UFOlogist who’s managed to throw nearly every shred of credibility he has to the four...1992 November/December, Brian Siano, “Hanging’ with Zontar at the Grassy Knoll”, in The Humanist, volume 52, number 6, pages 43–46

Forms of ufologist

pluralufologists
alternative formUFOlogist
alternative formUFO-logist
pluralUFOlogists

Origin of ufologist

From ufolog(y) + -ist. By surface analysis, UFO + -logist.

Questions about ufologist

What does ufologist mean?
Ufologist means a person who studies UFOs.
What part of speech is ufologist?
Ufologist is a noun.
How do you pronounce ufologist?
Ufologist is pronounced /ˌjuːˈfɑləd͡ʒɪst/ (US).
What is the plural of ufologist?
The plural of ufologist is ufologists.

Words near ufologist in the dictionary

  1. UFOer
  2. UFOers
  3. ufological
  4. ufologically
  5. ufologies
  6. ufologist
  7. ufologists
  8. ufology
  9. ufonaut
  10. ufonauts
  11. ufos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ufologist (page history and authors); UFOlogist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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