page_title: Unidentified flying object
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Unidentified flying object / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: A statue of an UFO in Tenjo, Colombia. It commemorates the popular believe that many UFOs come to Tenjo and cause many unexplained paranormal activitiesEspañol: Una esculptura de un platillo volador en Tenjo, Colombia que depicta un ovni.
context_page_description: An unidentified flying object is any aerial phenomenon that cannot immediately be identified or explained. Most UFOs are identified on investigation as conventional objects or phenomena. The term is widely used for claimed observations of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
context_section_description: UFOs have constituted a widespread international cultural phenomenon since the 1950s. Gallup Polls rank UFOs near the top of lists for subjects of widespread recognition. In 1973, a survey found that 95 percent of the public reported having heard of UFOs, whereas only 92 percent had heard of U.S. President Gerald Ford in a 1977 poll taken just nine months after he left the White House. A 1996 Gallup Poll reported that 71 percent of the United States population believed the U.S. government was covering up information regarding UFOs. A 2002 Roper Poll for the Sci-Fi Channel found similar results, but with more people believing UFOs are extraterrestrial craft. In that latest poll, 56 percent thought UFOs were real craft and 48 percent that aliens had visited the Earth. Again, about 70 percent felt the government was not sharing everything it knew about UFOs or extraterrestrial life.
  Another effect of the flying saucer type of UFO sightings has been Earth-made flying saucer craft in space fiction, for example the United Planets Cruiser C57D in Forbidden Planet (1956), the Jupiter 2 in Lost in Space, and the saucer section of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek.
  UFOs and extraterrestrials have been featured in many movies.
caption: A UFO Monument at Tenjo, Colombia
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