This is the dumbest thing to nitpick but the phrase āreal UFOā bothers me any UFO is a real UFO as long as itās unidentified and flying because thatās what those words mean weather or not itās an alien is a different matter it could be a pancake someone threw real hard as long as you donāt know thatās what it is itās a UFO
iāve said it before, and iāll say it again: anything is a UFO if youāre bad enough at identifying stuff
A counterproposal: in order to be a fake UFO, something can fail to be an object, or fail to be flying.
So the batsignal, improperly identified, could be a fake UFO, because although it appears in the sky and might be mistaken for a UFO, it is neither a physical object nor in any meaningful sense flying. Various light projections, optical illusions, and meteorological phenomena might fall into this category.
Additionally, seen from a distance or in poor lighting/visibility conditions, some sort of bulbous sculpture on a very tall thin support might also appear to be a UFO, and fulfill both theĀ āunidentifiedā andĀ āobjectā criteria, without flying, and therefore qualify as aĀ āfake UFOā.
this may be the most pedantic thing Iāve ever written in my lifeĀ
and we love you for it
But if it was made by real aliens, then THEY obviously know what it is.
So, if it is an actual alien spaceship, then it is not unidentified, and is therefore not a real UFO.
Paging @tryinghuman