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unidentified flying objects

unidentified flying objects is the plural of unidentified flying object.

Meaning of unidentified flying object

Noun

unidentified flying object (plural unidentified flying objects)

  1. Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air.
    • 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.
    1. (especially and originally) Such things as seem to be discrete objects and comparable to aircraft.
      • She said that the unidentified flying object then turned around, zoomed to a higher altitude, and loitered briefly before speeding off.
  2. (colloquial) An alien spacecraft.
    • He said that the strange beings then took him aboard their unidentified flying object and examined his body.

Questions about unidentified flying objects

What is unidentified flying objects the plural of?
Unidentified flying objects is the plural of unidentified flying object.

Words near unidentified flying objects in the dictionary

  1. unidentified
  2. unidentified aerial phenomena
  3. unidentified aerial phenomenon
  4. Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary
  5. unidentified flying object
  6. unidentified flying objects
  7. unidentified submarine object
  8. unidentified submarine objects
  9. unidentified submerged object
  10. unidentified submerged objects
  11. unidentifiedness

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