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If you feel like you're lost with abbreviations, this will help! 

UFO ACRONIMS
A2 
Air Force Intelligence

AAC 
Alaskan Air Command

AAF
Army Air Force 

ACOM 
Asian Communist - One of NSA's 4 major Operational Divisions 

ADC 
AeroSpace Defense Command 

ADLA
Assistant Director for Legal & Legislative AffAirs - (NSA) 


ADPL
Assistant Director for Policy & Liason - (NSA) 

ADPR 
Assistant Director for Plans / Resources - (NSA) 

ADT
Assistant Director for Training 


ADVA
Advanced Soviet - One of the 4 major operational divisions of NSA's production organization: combined with GENS into 'A Group' 

AEC
Atomic Energy Commission 

AFB 
Air Force Base 

AFESC
Air Force Electronic Security Command 

AFGWC 
Air Force Global Weather Control 

AFIS 
Air Force Intelligence Service 

AFOC 
Air Force Operations Center 

AFR 
Air Force Regulation 

AFSA
Armed Forces Security Agency 

AFSAC
Armed Forces Security Agency Council 

AFSS
Air Force Security Service 

ALLO 
ALL Others- One of the 4 Major Operational Divisions of NSA'S Production Organization - now known as 'G Group' 

ALP 
Advanced Language Program 


AMB 
Ambassador 

ANCIB
Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board 

ANCICC
Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Coordinating Committee 

ANG
Air National Guard 

APRO
Aerial Phenomena Research Organization 

AR
Army Regulation 

ARC 
Ad Hoc Requirements Committee 

ARDF
Airborne Radio Direction Finding 

ARFCOS 

Armed Forces Courier Service 

ARPA 
Advanced Research Projects Agency 

ASA 
Army Security Agency 

ASD 
Applied Science Division (CIA) 

AST 
Atlantic Standard Time 

ATIC
Air Technical Intelligence Center (Air Force) 

AUFOSG 

Alberta UFO Study Group 

BMW 
Bomb Wing 

CAP 
Civil Air Patrol (civilian auxilliary of United States Air Force) 

CAUS
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy 

CFB
Canadian Forces Base 

CFS
Canadian Forces Station 

CGS
Coast Guard Station 

CIA
Central Intelligence Agency 

CIC
Counter Intelligence Corps 

CINC/NORAD 
Commander In Charge, NORAD 

CIRVIS 
Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings (DND Canada) 

CSICOP 
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Phenomenon 

CUFON
Computer UFO Network 

CUFOS
Center for UFO Studies 

COMINT
Communications Intelligence (NSA) 

CP
Command Post 

CSC 
Central Security Control (Air Force) 

CSIS
Canadian Security Intelligence Service 

DATT
Defense Attache (US Embassy) 

DCD 
Domestic Collections Division (CIA) 

DCSOPS 
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (Air Force) 

DDO 
Deputy Director for Operations (Air Force) 

DIA 
Defense Intelligence Agency 

DMZ 
Demilitarized Zone (Vietnam) 

DND 
Department of National Defence (Canada) 

DO 
Duty Officer 

DOT
Department of Transport (Canada) 

EADF

Eastern Air Defence Force (regional air defence organization in USA) 

EBE
Extra-terrestrial Biological Entity 

ET 
Extra-Terrestrial 
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FAA 

Federal Aviation Administration 

FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation 

FISA
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 

FOIA
Freedom of Information Act (also F.O.I.A.) 

G2 
Army Intelligence 

GAO
Government Accounting Office 

GCCS 
Government Code and Cypher School 

GCHQ 
Government Communications HeadQuarters 

GCI
Ground Control Intercept 

GENS
General Soviet - One of the 4 Major Operational Divisions of NSA's Production Organization combined with ADVA into 'A Group' 

GG 

Government Grade - used in place of GS1 TO GS18 only for Gov't Employees such as NSA Employees 

GMT
Greenwich Mean Time (ZULU Time) 

GREY
Alleged Alien Species 

GSW 
Ground Saucer Watch 

HBCC
Houston, British Columbia Centre for UFO Research 

HFDF 
High Frequency Direction Finding 

HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee 

HUMINT
Human Intelligence 

ICBM
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile 

ICI
Interagency Committee on Intelligence 

IDA-CRD
Institute for Defense Analysis-Communications Research Division 

IDP

Intercept Deployment Plan 

IEC 
Intelligence Evaluation Committee 

IFF
Identification Friend of Foe (encoded transponder signal for aircraft identification) 

INSCOM 
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command 

INTELPOST 
International Electronic Post 

INTELSAT
International Telecommunications Satellite 

INYSA
Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, USAF, Science and Technology Branch, Directorate of Response Management 

INZ
AeroSpace Intelligence Division (AFIS) 

INZA
Editing, Debriefing, and Continuity Branch (AFIS) 

IPB
Intercept Priorities Board 

IUR
International UFO Reporter (Published by CUFOS) 

JACL
Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division (USAF) 

JANAP
Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication 

JCS 
Joint Chiefs of Staff 

JOSAF 
Joint Operations Support Activity - Frankfurt 

JRC 
Joint Reconnaissance Center 

JSPC
Joint SOBE Processing Center 

JTLS
Joint Technical Language Service 

KGB
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) USSR 

KISR 
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research 

KM 
Kilometer 

LASP
Low Altitude Surveillance Platform 

LCF 
Launch Control Facility (Air Force) 

LIUFON 

Long Island (NY) UFO Network 

LOB 

Raymond E. Linn Operations Building 

LPMEDLEY 
CIA Cryptonym for an Operation in Support of the NSA 

LRTS
Long Range Technical 

MI-8
Military Intelligence Section 8 - Codes and Ciphers Search 

MIB 
'Men In Black' 

MID 

Military Intelligence Division 

MJ-12
 
Alleged Secret Government Committee for UFO/Alien Research 

M5 
NSA Office of Security 

MIT
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

MPRO
Machine Processing Section of NSA's Production Organization 

MUFON 

Mutual UFO Network (http://www.mufon.com) 

NAVSPASUR 
Naval Space Surveillance System 

NCOC 

National Combat Operations Center 

NEPA 
Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft 

NICAP
 
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena 

NM 

Nautical Mile 

NMCC
National Military Command Center 

NORAD - 
North American AeroSpace Defense Command 

NPIC

National Photographic Interpretation Center 

NRL 

Naval Research Laboratory 

NRC 
- 
National Research Council (Canada) 

NSA 
- 
National Security Agency 

NSF - 
National Science Foundation 

NUFORC 

National UFO Reporting Center 

OAM
Operation Animal Mutilation 

ONI 

Office of Naval Intelligence 

OPP
Ontario Provincial Police 

OSI
Office of Special Investigations (Air Force) 

OSI
 
Office of Special Investigations (CIA) 

OSS 
Office of Strategic Services

PIO

Public Information Officer (as in US Air Force) 

PSAPR
Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research INC. 

RAF
Royal Air Force (UK) 

RAPCOM 
Radar Approach Communications 

RAPCON 

Radar Approach Control 

RCMP 

Royal Canadian Mounted Police 

RUFO 
'Red Light' Unidentified Flying Object 

SA

Special Agent 

SAC 
Strategic Air Command 

SAC/HO 
Strategic Air Command Office of History 


SAFOI 
Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information 

SAO 
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 

SAR
Search And Rescue 

SAT
Security Alert Team 

SBI 

Special Background Investigation 

SDS
- 
Students for a Democratic Society 

SETI
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 

SIGLEX

Special Interest Group on Lexicography 

SIGNIT 
Signals Intelligence (NSA) 

SIGTRAN 
Special Interest Group on Translation 

SIGVOICE
 
- 
Special Interest Group on Voice 

SIPG
 
Special Intercept Priorities Group 

SIS 

Signal Intelligence Service 

SOLIS

SIGNIT On Line Intelligence System 

SPADATS 

Space Detection And Tracking System (NORAD) 

SPS
- 
Security Police Squadron 

SSA

Signal Security Agency 

SSB
Soft Support Building (USAF) 

TIA
Temperature Inversion Analysis UAP - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena 

UAV 
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (remote or autonomous controlled aerial vehicle) 

UFO
 
Unidentified Flying Object 

UFOBC 
Unidentified Flying Objects British Columbia (http://www.ufobc.ca) 

UFOIS
UFO Information Service 

UFORC 

UFO Reporting Center 

UFORIC
 
UFO Research Institute of Canada 

USG

United States Government 

UHF
Ultra-High Frequency (radio frequency band) 

USAF 

United States Air Force 

USMC
United States Marine Corps 

USO 

Unidentified Submerged Object 

USG 

United States Government 

VHF
Very High Frequency (radio frequency band) 

Z
 
ZULU (Universal Time) (Greenwich Mean Time)



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