Category: UFO Glossary

Beginning in 1965 hundreds of people have reported being abducted by aliens from another planet, who then subject them to various physical exams, procedures, and…

The twentieth century’s obsession with the possibility of intelligent life on other worlds has had a massive impact on the whole range of alternative beliefs…

The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) was once one of the most prominent organizations of UFO researchers and enthusiasts in America. The group…

Headed by and named for physicist Edward U. Condon of the University of Colorado, the Condon Committee was a U.S. government–sponsored panel that investigated UFO…

Founded in 1952 in Tucson, Arizona, but disbanded in the late 1980s, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) was the first worldwide group of civilians…

In reports given by people who claim to have seen extraterrestrial beings, there are two types of aliens. The first is roughly 2 to 4…

Folklorist Thomas E. Bullard is best known for his scholarship on the place of UFO reports in popular culture. In particular, he contends that stories…

So many unidentified flying objects have been sighted over Gulf Breeze, Florida, that the town is considered by enthusiasts to be a UFO hot spot.…

As their name implies, unidentified submarine objects (USOs) are objects seen beneath the sea that defy identification. In some cases a USO is suspected of…

The name the Watchers is sometimes used to refer to extraterrestrials whose motive for visiting Earth is said to be saving the planet from destruction…