UFO (disambiguation)

A UFO (or unidentified flying object) is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.

UFO also may refer to:

Computer technology

 * .ufo, the file extension for Ulead PhotoImpact documents
 * Unified File and Object (UFO), object storage architecture
 * UHF Follow-On satellite, a series of US 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.

Film and television

 * UFO (1956 film), directed by Winston Jones
 * U.F.O. (1993 film), starring Roy "Chubby" Brown
 * U.F.O. (2012 film), with Jean-Claude Van Damme
 * UFO (2018 film), directed by Ryan Eslinger, starring Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, about an airport sighting
 * UFO (2022 film), a Turkish Netflix film
 * UFO (American TV series), 2021 television documentary by J.J. Abrams
 * UFO (British TV series), 1970s TV series by Gerry Anderson
 * UFOs (TV series), 2021 French TV series
 * UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, 2000s manga and anime television series

Bands and performers

 * UFO (musician) (born 1981), Danish hip hop artist, rapper and singer
 * Ufo361 (born 1988), German rapper
 * UFO (band), an English hard rock band
 * UFO, the original name of the English R&B group better known as JLS
 * UFO Yepha, 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

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.", song by Blonde Redhead on their album La Mia Vita Violenta (1995)
 * "UFO", song by D-Block Europe and Aitch from the album The Blue Print: Us vs. Them (2020)

Other musical works

 * UFO (Michael Daugherty composition)
 * UFOetry, multimedia UFO rock opera

Video games

 * UFO Interactive Games, American video game company

UFO Defense family

 * UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994), AKA X-COM: UFO Defense
 * UFO: Aftermath (2003)
 * UFO: Aftershock (2005)
 * UFO: Afterlight (2007)
 * UFO: Alien Invasion (2003)

Other video games

 * UFO (1989) by Sublogic
 * UFO Kamen Yakisoban (1994) for Super Famicom
 * U.F.O.s (1997), adventure game by Artech
 * UFO: A Day in the Life (1999) by Love-de-Lic
 * UFO: Extraterrestrials (2007) by Chaos Concept
 * Undefined Fantastic Object (2009), the twelfth entry in the Touhou Project series by ZUN

Other works

 * UFOs: The Greatest Stories, 1996 short-story anthology by Martin H. Greenberg

Games and sports

 * Claw vending machine AKA UFO
 * UFO, a style of delivery in Ten-pin bowling

Clubs

 * Ufo (Club, Berlin), Acid House club
 * UFO Club, London underground club

Products and services

 * UFO, brand of instant yakisoba
 * UFO (restaurant) in Slovakia
 * UFO (ride), amusement park ride

Other uses

 * United Farmers of Ontario, Canadian political party c. 1920s
 * UFO, variant of float b-boy move
 * Ufo (wasp), genus of wasps
 * UFO 34 (yacht), a sailboat
 * UFO Radio, a radio station in Taiwan
 * Uranium Fluorine Oxygen
 * Ultra Fast Outflows, winds that come from supermassive black holes
 * University of French Ontario, referring to the Université de l'Ontario français