- Debunker - Debunkers are more extreme than skeptics. Debunkers generally refuse to even entertain the possibility that any UFO could be anything unusual. Debunkers are sometimes so fanatic about finding a non-extraterrestrial explanation for a UFO sighting that they violate scientific principles to do so.
- Delphos, Kansas - Site where the Johnson family had a close encounter in 1971.
- Devil's Triangle - Another name for the Bermuda Triangle.
- Disinformation - An intelligence tactic used to protect top-secret information by diluting or covering the truth with false information.
- Dogon - Tribe in Mali, Africa, who inexplicably seem to have knowledge of the invisible companion of the star Sirius, which cannot be seen without a telescope.
- Doty, Sergeant Richard C. - Air Force Ofice of Special Investigations - Served in Laos & Vietnam. Later transferred to AFOSI & was assigned to Kirtland AFB. Investigated Weitzel UFO sighting & Paul Bennewitz. Later served in West Germany. After retiring from USAF, became a New Mexico Highway Patrolman. A friend and/or associate of William L. Moore.
- Dreamland - Another name for Area 51. It's the term used by the Nellis AFB control tower to refer to the base.
- Dulce - While investigating cattle mutilations on the Jicarillo Indian Reservation outside Dulce, New Mexico, Paul Bennewitz saw mysterious objects rising from Mt. Archuleta. He deduced, or was disinformed into believing, that there must be an alien base inside the mountain. Others have added to the story since, and the Dulce base has become legendary.
- Eagle River, Wisconsin - Site of a 1961 UFO event.
- Earthquake Lights - Lights which sometimes appear just before or during an earthquake.
- Estimate of the Situation - In 1948, Project Sign personnel thought it time to make a formal Estimate of the Situation giving the results of their investigation of UFOs so far. This was sent to Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenburg, who rejected the report's conclusion that UFOs were extraterrestrial in origin. He ordered the report destroyed.
- Exeter Event - Exeter is a city in New Hampshire that was the site of a wave of UFO sightings beginning in September, 1965. Book:Incident at Exeter by John G. Fuller.
- Face on Mars - A mysterious plateau in the Cydonia area of Mars that looks like a face in some photos. Some say it must have been created by intelligent life. NASA says it's a natural formation combined with a trick of light.
- Falcon Lake - lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada, where, in 1967 prospector Stephen Michalak had a close encounter with a UFO that left him with burns across his chest.
- fata morgana - A type of mirage that seems to be a castle or a city floating on the ocean.
- Fermi Paradox - A question first asked by physicist Enrico Fermi - "If there are intelligent extraterrestrials out there, why haven't they contacted us?".
- Feuerball - Supposedly a flying craft developed by the Nazis during World War Two.
- Firmage, Joe - Former CEO of USWeb, who quit to form the International Space Sciences Organization and to write The Truth, about UFOs and space travel, among other things.
- Flatwoods, West Virginia - Site of a burning object crash and sightings of a mysterious creature in 1952.
- Flight 19 - Ill-fated group of five avenger aircraft on a training mission from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Known as the "Lost Patrol". They disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945.
- Flying Saucer - This is a name for certain types of UFOs. It originated when Kenneth Arnold described the objects that he saw as looking like a "saucer skipping across water."
- Foo Fighters - During World War II, both sides reported strange lights and objects flying alongside their planes. Each side at first believed they were some kind of a new secret weapon belonging to the other side. No explanation was ever found. The name foo fighter comes from a WWII cartoon character named "Smoky Stover" who said Where there's foo, there's fire!.
- Ford, John - President of the Long Island UFO Network. Arrested in 1996 for conspiring to poison local officials with radium.
- Fort, Charles - (1874 - 1932) The first UFOlogist & investigator of unusual phenomena. Author of several books including The Book of the Damned and Lo!.
- Fowler, Raymond - Abduction researcher & author of the Andreasson Affair and The Allagash Abductions, among others.
- Friedman, Stanton - Physicist, formerly worked for Westinghouse. Author of Crash at Corona (With Don Berliner), and Top Secret/Majic. One of the primary investigators of the Roswell Incident and the MJ-12 Documents.
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