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AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, OR UFO, IN IT'S MOST GENERAL DEFINITION, IS AN APPARENT ANOMALY IN THE SKY THAT IS NOT IDENTIFIABLE AS A KNOWN OBJECT OR PHENOMENON. CULTURALLY, UFO'S ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CLAIMS OF VISITATION BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE OR GOVERNMENT-RELATED CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AND HAVE BECOME POPULAR SUBJECTS IN FICTION. UFO'S ARE OFTEN IDENTIFIED AFTER THEIR SIGHTING. SOMETIMES, HOWEVER, UFO'S CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED. UFO SIGHTINGS HAVE BEEN REPORTED THROUGHOUT RECORDED HISTORY AND IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD, RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS AND WHETHER EXTRATERRESTRIALS HAVE VISITED EARTH. THE FIRST WELL-KNOWN UFO SIGHTING OCCURRED IN 1947, WHEN KENNETH ARNOLD, CLAIMED TO SEE A GROUP OF NINE HIGH SPEED OBJECTS NEAR MOUNT RAINIER IN WASHINGTON WHILE FLYING HIS PLANE. ARNOLD ESTIMATED THE SPEED OF THE CRESCENT-SHAPED OBJECTS AS SEVERAL THOUSAND MILES PER HOUR AND SAID THEY MOVED LIKE SAUCERS SKIPPING ON WATER. IN NEWSPAPER REPORTS THAT FOLLOWED, IT WAS MISTAKENLY STATED THAT THE OBJECTS WERE SAUCER SHAPED, HENCE THE TERM - FLYING SAUCER.