This is the dumbest thing to nitpick but the phrase “real UFO” bothers me any UFO is a real UFO as long as it’s unidentified and flying because that’s what those words mean weather or not it’s an alien is a different matter it could be a pancake someone threw real hard as long as you don’t know that’s what it is it’s a UFO

i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again: anything is a UFO if you’re 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 the ‘unidentified’ and ‘object’ criteria, without flying, and therefore qualify as a ‘fake UFO’.

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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.