UFOlogy

See also: ufology

English

Noun

UFOlogy (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of ufology.
   • 1990 December, D. Stacy, T. Sanda, “The alien almanac”, in Omni, volume 13, number 3, pages 97–105:

     Seventies UFO fans also referred to “close encounters,” including the consciousness-raising “close encounter of the third kind,” in which humans and aliens meet. But UFOlogy has gone through a radical change, and in the Nineties the terms of the past are largely obsolete. During the past decade, for instance, literally thousands of people have come forward to say they’ve been kidnapped, or “abducted,” by short, large-headed, thin-lipped entities with saucer eyes.

   • 1992 November/December, Brian Siano, “Hanging’ with Zontar at the Grassy Knoll”, in The Humanist, volume 52, number 6, pages 43–46:

     If you have wondered why the government has never come clean on the subject of flying saucers, maybe you should consider why we never take the trouble to brief cows on the reason for their existence. I can guess at least one question you might have by this point: “How extreme can this stuff get before someone decides enough’s enough?” But in UFOlogy, the sky’s the limit.

   • 1995 November/December, William Evans, “They are out to get us”, in Mercury, volume 24, number 6, page 27:

     There is no shame in acknowledging that science is unsuited to UFO research, since, as Bauer argued, UFOlogy is a field where definitive answers are unlikely to be found.

   • 1997 September, Philip J[ulian] Klass, “A field guide to UFOs”, in Astronomy, volume 25, number 9, pages 30–36:

     Hendry, who retired from “UFOlogy” shortly after his book’s publication and has never returned, discovered there are many, many trigger mechanisms for UFO reports besides bright planets, fireballs, reentering space debris, and the moon.

   • 2008 April, Thomas R. Dulski, “Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in the Can”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 128, number 4, page 19:

     When the cabbie found the place I was reminded of the warlock hangout in Bell, Book, and Candle, only this one was devoted to “UFOlogy.” A cardboard little green man with an “LGM” monogrammed spacesuit was propped against the window where a Coors Light neon glowed.