ufologist

noun

1. A person who studies UFOs.

   “Still, something strange was afoot in Rendlesham, and even if the file is unlikely to satisfy either ufologists or debunkers, it suggests that the truth is still out there.”

   “But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.”

2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of ufologist.

   “New Brunswick nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman may not have coined the phrase cosmic Watergate, but he claims to have used it more often than any living UFOlogist. First used in the wake of the Republican break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex, Washington, DC, the term refers to an alleged government cover-up of aliens and UFOs.”

   “Some UFOlogists claim to have determined the different species of aliens, which star systems they’ve come from, what their technology is like, and where their underground bases are. This makes it hard to imagine a UFOlogist who’s managed to throw nearly every shred of credibility he has to the four winds.”

   ““Whispers from Space”: A documentary about Gray Barker, well-known UFOlogist of the 1950s and 1960s, who seems never to have believed in the existence of UFOs at all.”

   “As if the Zapruder footage and Oliver Stone hadn’t made JFK’s assassination mysterious enough, UFOlogists would have us believe that aliens who landed here in 1947 masterminded the whole thing”

   “He dedicates this story to the indefatigable UFOlogist George D. Fawcett and to the late anomalist William R. Corliss.”