UFO

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UFO /ˈjuːfəʊ, ˌjuː ef ˈəʊ $ -foʊ, -ˈoʊ/ noun [countable]  TTSTTA (unidentified flying object) a strange object in the sky, that some people believe is a spaceship from another world 不明飞行物 SYN flying saucer

Examples from the Corpus

UFO• Teacher, that is a UFO?• Coastguards, police and the Lerwick Observatory received 17 independent reports of a UFO.• Is this an encounter with a UFO?• The genuine effects are reproducible; the quirky - such as UFO sightings - are filed away but rarely prove significant for science.• Holloman was the supposed site of a famous UFO encounter, the one that Close Encounters was based on.• Jason says UFO is his favourite night of the week.• They had chosen to sign up with the UFO subculture.

UFO nounChinese  

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UFO
UFO /ˈjuːfəʊ, ˌjuː ef ˈəʊ $ -foʊ, -ˈoʊ/ noun [countable]
(unidentified flying object) a strange object in the sky, that some people believe is a spaceship from another world
   SYN  flying saucer

UFO (also ufo) BrE /ˌjuː ef ˈəʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˌjuː ef ˈoʊ/ 🔊BrE /ˈjuːfəʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈjuːfoʊ/ 🔊 noun (

plural

UFOs or

ufos) the abbreviation for 'Unidentified Flying Object' (a strange object that some people claim to have seen in the sky and believe is a spacecraft from another planet) 不明飞行物，幽浮（全写为 Unidentified Flying Object）  ➡  compare flying saucer