(United Functions and Objects) A hybrid functional and object-orieNTed language designed by John SeargaNT at Manchester University for general-purpose parallel computation. To a first approximation, UFO is a strict, higher-order functional language with an object-orieNTed type system, and strong support for numeric computation in the form of SISAL-style arrays and loops. Parallelism is implicit, and applies at various differeNT levels of granularity, thereby facilitating implemeNTations on a wide range of parallel architectures. It is planned to run it on a 64 processor KSR machine. (1996-08-22)