Novram
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"Unidentified flying object", came from the U.S. Air Force, back in the 1950s, when they were conducting their investigations with Project Bluebook. The term replaced the phrase "flying saucer", because many of the sightings were not of the typical disc shaped craft, but other configurations as well. The term "flying saucer", was coined after a sighting in Mount Rainier, in Washington State, by an airplane pilot in 1947. UFO is an older twentieth century name. A newer term for the twenty first century is; "unexplained aerial phenomena", UAP.