UFO

Quality:

Unidentified flying object - unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable. Article “UFO” in Italian Wikipedia has 87.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 182 references and 38 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.61 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Italian Wikipedia:

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The 5989^th most popular in Italian Wikipedia.

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The 827^th most editable in Italian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4196^th most popular in all topics.

The 655^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8520^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2442^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “UFO” was edited by 2 authors in Italian Wikipedia and written by 41 authors in all languages (2442^nd place).

Since the creation of article “UFO”, its content was written by 402 registered users of Italian Wikipedia (827^th place) and edited by 7450 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (655^th place).

The article is cited 803 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 13502 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #23 in April 2005
• Global: #75 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #459 in July 2008
• Global: #794 in July 2008

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) UFO		94.6667
2	Spanish (es) Ovni		94.4074
3	Russian (ru) Неопознанный летающий объект		94.1676
4	Malay (ms) Benda terbang aneh		92.0165
5	Turkish (tr) UFO		89.6507
6	Italian (it) UFO		87.5499
7	Tamil (ta) அடையாளம் கண்டுபிடிக்க முடியாத பறக்கும் பொருள்		87.5
8	Portuguese (pt) Objeto voador não identificado		83.6738
9	English (en) Unidentified flying object		79.7165
10	Finnish (fi) Ufo		76.0303

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Unidentified flying object		17 184 630
2	Spanish (es) Ovni		4 669 564
3	Japanese (ja) 未確認飛行物体		4 392 165
4	Russian (ru) Неопознанный летающий объект		4 034 591
5	French (fr) Objet volant non identifié		1 917 503
6	Italian (it) UFO		1 895 748
7	German (de) UFO		1 796 733
8	Polish (pl) UFO		1 503 748
9	Portuguese (pt) Objeto voador não identificado		1 069 532
10	Chinese (zh) 不明飞行物		1 024 593

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Unidentified flying object		46 534
2	Japanese (ja) 未確認飛行物体		9 948
3	Russian (ru) Неопознанный летающий объект		7 327
4	Portuguese (pt) Objeto voador não identificado		6 831
5	Spanish (es) Ovni		5 631
6	Chinese (zh) 不明飞行物		4 860
7	Italian (it) UFO		4 227
8	German (de) UFO		4 063
9	French (fr) Objet volant non identifié		3 687
10	Persian (fa) شیء ناشناس پرنده		3 119

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Unidentified flying object		1 754
2	French (fr) Objet volant non identifié		596
3	German (de) UFO		535
4	Russian (ru) Неопознанный летающий объект		417
5	Italian (it) UFO		402
6	Spanish (es) Ovni		401
7	Japanese (ja) 未確認飛行物体		363
8	Dutch (nl) Unidentified flying object		257
9	Polish (pl) UFO		236
10	Chinese (zh) 不明飞行物		167

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 未確認飛行物体		6
2	German (de) UFO		4
3	English (en) Unidentified flying object		4
4	Spanish (es) Ovni		4
5	Polish (pl) UFO		4
6	Arabic (ar) جسم طائر مجهول		3
7	Portuguese (pt) Objeto voador não identificado		3
8	Galician (gl) Ovni		2
9	Hebrew (he) עצם בלתי מזוהה		2
10	Italian (it) UFO		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information