noun
unidentified flying object; UFO
Formal, literal term for UFO; often abbreviated to UFO (ユーフォー) in casual speech.
未確認飛行物体が目撃されたという報告が相次いだ。
There were a series of reports that an unidentified flying object had been sighted.
Common abbreviation; more casual and widely used than the full term 未確認飛行物体.
Compound of 未確認 (unconfirmed) + 飛行 (flight) + 物体 (object), a direct translation of the English 'unidentified flying object'.