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ufology

study of UFOs and other UAP
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Summary

ufology is a branch of pseudoscience[1]. ufology draws 4,439 Wikipedia views per month (branch of pseudoscience category, ranking #2 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: protoscience[3]
  • Subclass of: anomalistics[4]
  • Has part(s): scholarly article[5], government document[6], book[7], identification studies of UFOs[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ufology[9]
  • Described at URL: https://mufon.com/what-is-ufology/[10], https://en.everybodywiki.com/Academic_research_about_UFOs_and_related_phenomena[11]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Astrobiology[12]
  • Facet of: international security[13]
  • Different from: urology[14], UFO religion[15]
  • Has list: list of ufologists[16]
  • Is the study of: unidentified flying object[17], first contact[18], alien abduction[19]
  • Practiced by: ufologist[20]

Why It Matters

ufology has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] ufology is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . en.everybodywiki.com. en.everybodywiki.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . livescience.com. livescience.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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