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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by ALittleLight on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:25PM (#26246251)
The problem isn't with the term. Any term that means "An unknown flying thing" will come to be associated with aliens. If you start using a new term, that will just make it more exotic and interesting and "official seeming". "Authorities are reporting a UFT!" "What's that" "A UFO!!"

The interesting/curious/conspiracy-invoking concept is the unknown flying thing, whatever you call it. Whatever name you use will get associated with the interesting/curious/conspiracy aspect.

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Re:American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on... by bostonsre on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:19PM (#26246531)
Yea, I don't understand why there can't be intelligible/non-conspiracy conversations about the extremely unusual stuff that has been reported by a good number of reputable people. It seems like there are a few plausible theories and we should be able to have conversations about wth they are.
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