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A UFO flap is a rash of reports of unidentified airborne objects. "Flap", originally a military term for a stir or upset, has been used to describe spates of UFO reports such as:

• Mystery airship wave of 1896-1897 in the US
• Foo fighters of World War 2
• Ghost rockets of 1946 in Sweden and Finland
• 1947 flying disc craze in the US
• 1952 UFO flap in the US
• Great 1954 Greek UFO flap
• March 1966 UFO flap in the US
• 1977 Colares flap in Brazil
• 1984 Hudson Valley UFO sightings in the US
• Gulf Breeze sightings of 1987-88 in the US
• Belgian UFO wave of 1989-90

See also

• Psychosocial UFO hypothesis, which argues UFO reports are best explained by social contagion

References

1. Clarke, David (2015). How UFOs Conquered the World: the History of a Modern Myth. London: Aurum Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78131-472-2.
2. Ruppelt (1956) defines "flap" as "a condition or situation, or state of being of a group characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not yet reached panic proportions"

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