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 Glossary of UFO Terminology

ADC—Air Defense Command.

AFR 200-2—Air Force Regulation No. 200-2. The current regulation prohibiting the release of UFO data to news media and the public by Air Force bases and USAF Intelligence groups.

AFSB—Australian Flying Saucer Bureau. Now believed defunct, this group was headquartered at Fairfield, New South Wales.

AFSRS—Australian Flying Saucer Research Society, located at Kilburn, South Australia.

AP—Associated Press.

APRO—Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. A private UFO research group with headquarters at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

ATIC, A. T. I. C.—Air Technical Intelligence Center. Located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. ATIC coordinates the USAF study of unidentified aerial phenomena.

CAA—Civil Aeronautics Administration.

CFSI—Civilian Flying Saucer Intelligence. A group Seattle disseminating UFO sighting reports.

CIA—Central Intelligence Agency.

CIRVIS—Communication Instruction for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings (from Aircraft).

CSI (NY)—Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York.

CSI (NZ)—Civilian Saucer Investigation (New Zealand), at Auckland.

C. R. I. F. O.—Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects. A UFO news disseminating group at Cincinnati, Ohio.

Flap—Applied to the UFO, a flap designates anything from a "flurry" to a "panic" of sighting reports and the resultant effects.

Flying Disc (or Disk)—A term often used in refer ence to UFO's from 1947 up to and including the early '50's.

Flying Saucer—Generally, any aerial phenomena remaining for at least a brief time unidentified. Specifically, an aerial object which exhibits a circular or oval shape.

Fortean—Pertaining to, or the work of, or the type of anomalous phenomena catalogued by, Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932). Fort's principal works—The Book of the Damned, New Lands,Lo!, and Wild Talents—comprise The Books of Charles Fort (published 1941 by Henry Holt for the Fortean Society).

GOC, G. O. C.—Ground Observer Corps.

Gravitic—pertaining to gravity, the principles of, and applications thereto.

INS—International News Service.

JANAP—Joint-Army-Navy-Air-Publication.

LB, L-B—Light-Beam. A communications method primarily developed for the restricted interchange of intelligence data during the Second World War. More recently, it has been adapted for attempting extra - terrestrial contact (communication).

MO—Modus Operandi (Method of Operation).

NTO—Non-Terrestrial Object.

OPI—Office of Public Information. Sometimes known as OPI/DD, the latter abbreviating Department of Defense.

PIO—Public Information Officer.

Project Blue Book—The current Air Force investigative body for the acquisition and analyses of UFO data. It is located at Air Technical Intelligence Center, Ohio.

Project Grudge—The USAF center for UFO re search which preceded Project Blue Book and succeeded Project Sign.

Project Magnet—A program initially established by the Canadian Government for the ultimate development of a discoid airfoil motivated by electromagnetic energy. Recently, Project Magnet has been more extensively noted for its attempt to electronically detect the proximity of UFO's to its sighting station at Shirley's Bay (near Ottawa), Ontario.

Project Sign—The code name assigned to the first group within the Air Force to investigate "flying saucer" reports.

Project Twinkle—A U. S. Air Force project to resolve what has become known as the "Green Fireball" phenomenon, plaguing the Southwestern United States since 1948.

UAO—This designation for Unidentified Aerial Object has been replaced in recent years by UFO (or UFOB).

UFO, U. F. O., u.f.o.—(Pronounced Yoo-foe.) Unidentified Flying Object. The current, semi-official designation for the phenomena oftimes termed "flying saucers." Plural is initiated by adding apostrophe and a non-capitalized s, i.e. UFO's. (See UFOB.)

UFOB—(Pronounced Yoo-fob.) Official U. S. Government designation for Unidentified Flying Objects.

UP—United Press.

Vailx—Purported Atlantean term for a cigar shaped aircraft, or space ship.

Vimana (Sanskrit), Vimanam (Pail)—Archaic designation for a self-propelled "air boat."