Definitions
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- noun The study of unidentified flying objects.
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- noun The
study ofUFOs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which brings us to the crux of the issue: ufology deals with the analysis and investigation of REPORTS, absent any credible hard physical evidence.
Governments Suppress Alien Truth - Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - NASA Watch 2009
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The top search item today is nibiru a "planet proposed in religion and ufology" according to wikipedia.
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It's called astrobiology and astrophysics, aka - ufology by others.
Governments Suppress Alien Truth - Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - NASA Watch 2009
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The top search item today is nibiru a "planet proposed in religion and ufology" according to wikipedia.
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It's this kind of 'logic' that makes ufology and ufologists look like astrophysicists and astrobiologists, which for all practical purposes is precisely what they are.
Governments Suppress Alien Truth - Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - NASA Watch 2009
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TDG: When we look at ufology in the 1960s, versus today, I'm not sure a lot of progress has been made (perhaps even the opposite).
Boing Boing 2008
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As a practicising ophiuchan, who loves the number 13, astrology is up there with cosmetology, ufology, Apollo project and AGW denying, crop circles and alchemy as a field of study that has given so, so much to mankind…. in the process making so much money for those practicising it.
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010
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As a practicising ophiuchan, who loves the number 13, astrology is up there with cosmetology, ufology, Apollo project and AGW denying, crop circles and alchemy as a field of study that has given so, so much to mankind…. in the process making so much money for those practicising it.
Debunking Astrology: Mars Can't Influence You | Universe Today 2010
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Alien bodies were then taken to Porton Down biological warfare centre for analysis, it was claimed, prompting the comparisons with Roswell, the 1947 incident in which, conspiracy theorists claimed, the US military recovered an alien spacecraft in New Mexico? the story that gave birth to 60 years of ufology, movies and all.
UFO files from National Archive allow believers to revisit 'Welsh Roswell' 2010
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Is ufology a sisyphean endeavour, unworthy of our prolonged attention?
Boing Boing 2008
treeseed commented on the word ufology
Ufology is the study of unidentified flying object (UFO) reports, sightings, alleged physical evidence, and other related phenomena.
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February 24, 2008