How to Use unidentified anomalous phenomenon in a Sentence

unidentified anomalous phenomenon

noun
  • But in the case of flying saucers and unidentified anomalous phenomena, what's truly going on seems elusive.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The documents form part of a broader federal effort to release records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • At one point, their conversation turned to the topic of UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena).
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • UFOs are short for unidentified flying objects, which the government now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • On Friday, the Pentagon released its second batch of files documenting unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • Sleeping Dog has been decades in the making and chronicles Corbell’s unlikely path from mixed martial artist to a journalist at the center of the battle for disclosure of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Bianco was part of NASA's independent team studying unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The government has rebranded UFOs with its preferred acronym of UAP – short for unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The surge of public interest is the latest chapter in a decades-long fascination with unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, the modern term for UFOs.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Stratton was the top figure in the government's modern investigation of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligent life.
    — Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • UFOs, the term for unidentified flying objects, has in recent years given way to UAP — unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified anomalous phenomena.
    — ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Congress has now hosted public testimony on three occasions since July 2023 on the strange sightings, which the government now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The Pentagon has started releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also called UFOs.
    — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • The Pentagon is starting to release files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), or unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • The vice president said the topic often came up in conversations with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, noting that both men have long shared an interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • What was once considered fringe or conspiratorial has in recent months popped up everywhere from the White House to the Catholic Church, as public fascination with unidentified anomalous phenomena — or UAPs, as the government calls them — becomes more mainstream.
    — Krysta Fauria, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • The Department of War has released a third batch of declassified records tied to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), adding 72 files that describe unexplained sightings reported by military personnel, federal agents, and foreign observers.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The site, which contains newly declassified government documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — the more modern term for what were traditionally called UFOs — launched on Friday morning, May 8.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
  • In their paper, Bruehl and Villarroel linked these transients to global reports of UFO sightings and found a small association, with transients being identified on the same day as a UFO, or UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomenon), sighting.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The analysis was conducted by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which Congress created in 2022 to investigate reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as UAP.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • The analysis was conducted by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which Congress created in 2022 to investigate reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as UAP.
    — Collin Binkley, Fortune, 15 June 2026
  • Today, efforts to officially address unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs – the modern government term for UFOs – are handled by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office inside the Department of Defense after it was established in 2022.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025

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