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Ufology studies unidentified flying objects and is viewed by skeptics as pseudoscience, tracing its roots from 1890s mystery airships and WWII “foo fighters” to the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting, with postwar government investigations (Project Sign, Project Blue Book, the Robertson Panel, the Condon Committee) and international efforts (Britain’s Flying Saucer Working Party, France’s GEIPAN; France’s CNES continuing, NASA naming Mark McInerney in 2023 to lead a transparent UAP study) while academia treats it as a social phenomenon rather than a science, with figures like J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée developing sighting classifications, contemporary projects such as Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project and the University of Würzburg’s intelligent sensors, rising public belief in extraterrestrial explanations, NASA’s nine‑month data‑gathering on UAP, and RAND’s analyses of thousands of reports for patterns near military activity, all amid methodological challenges and a landscape that includes crop circles, abductions, implants, conspiracy theories, and a spectrum of organizations and events like World UFO Day.
