How to Use unidentified flying object in a Sentence

unidentified flying object

noun
  • Three unidentified flying objects recently shot down may be harmless.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Not every report of an unidentified flying object turns out to be unidentifiable.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • More than a few people have reported unidentified flying objects flying in and out of Lake Jacomo.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • In subsequent days, three more unidentified flying objects were shot down over Alaska, the Yukon and Lake Huron.
    — Leonard David, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2023
  • These unidentified flying objects caused such a fear and furor that many were tracked avidly, some disappeared magically and at least one was shot down by the US military.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Their findings lead them to uncover a conspiracy, and, most intriguingly, reports of an unidentified flying object.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Their findings lead them to uncover a conspiracy, and, most intriguingly, reports of an unidentified flying object.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 22 June 2024
  • Scientists have made a remarkable discovery of a sphere that some believe to be an unidentified flying object (UFO).
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
  • But over the last few decades, as science and mass media have expanded, the obsession with unidentified flying objects and possible extraterrestrial life has exploded.
    — Kelsey Klimara, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The system’s radar and infrared cameras capture information about each unidentified flying object’s velocity, size, altitude, and so forth.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2017
  • Who better to go searching for unidentified flying objects than a snobbish TV host and a reserved extraterrestrial enthusiast?
    — Geordon Wollner, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Earlier today, three witnesses came before Congress to testify about their experiences with unidentified flying objects.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 July 2023
  • The unidentified flying objects, according to the federal government, do not appear to be operating nefariously.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The base served as the headquarters for a military program monitoring unidentified flying objects from 1947 to 1969, according to the government.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The base served as the headquarters for a military program monitoring unidentified flying objects from 1947 to 1969, according to the government.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • President Joe Biden said yesterday that three unidentified flying objects shot down last weekend over North American airspace were most likely balloons tied to private companies, or research institutions.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The United States military is capable of many things, but finding the remnants of an unidentified flying object scattered across a blinding expanse of Arctic ice in minus-30-degree weather using six available hours of daylight is not one of them.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Nearly a decade after a US Navy pilot reported an unidentified flying object shaped like a spindle hovering off the East Coast, scientists in China have built and tested a drone with a strikingly similar profile.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025

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