Mysterious sight in the sky

The answer

UFO

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UFO answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for UFO

Every other clue in this collection answered by UFO, most used first.

• Roswell sighting - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• E.T.'s craft - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• ET's craft - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Venusian vessel? - used 24 times, most recently in 2015
• Sci-fi saucer, for short - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Sky sighting - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Flying saucer - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Sci-fi vehicle - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Alien craft - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Sci-fi saucer - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Sci-fi craft - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Sci-fi sighting - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Sci-fi transport - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• ET carrier - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Tabloid topic - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Area 51 craft - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Craft in the tabloids - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• E.T. craft - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• ET's vehicle - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Flying saucer, for short - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Martian mover - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Sci-fi staple - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Sky saucer - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• E.T.'s transport - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Eerie sighting - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• ET craft - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• ET's ride - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• ET's transport - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Mysterious craft - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Radar anomaly - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Sci-fi hoverer - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Mystery blip - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Sci-fi spacecraft - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Strange sighting in the night sky - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Abduction ship, in tabloids - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Aerial enigma - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Amateur video subject, maybe - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• "Avatar" craft - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Martian's ride - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Mysterious blip - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Mysterious radar blip - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Mysterious sighting - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Saucer in the sky - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Tabloid transport - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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