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About 1953 or 54 the "flying saucer" tag was dropped, replaced by "UFO". There was too much ridicule and too many jokes about flying crockery, flying teacups...
My only beef about the term UFO is that is three-quarters identified already as a "flying object".
The only time I ever saw something of the kind was out on the lonely Nullarbor Plain at night, driving from Perth to Adelaide. (Hazardous in its own right, due to fast-moving kangaroos!) I spotted out to my right a distant light. My first thought was, lonely homestead. After a while it dawned on me that the light was still out there, pacing me along the horizon. It took about five minutes to track it down to the tachometer instrument light bulb reflected in the driver's window. I could really make that UFO vanish and then reappear-- all I had to do was turn the dash lights off and on.
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