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Originally Posted by astroron
Just because you don't know what an object is doesn't mean it is a UFO, it is only a UFO to you.
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A UFO is always unidentified to the observer hence the term. I'm not sure how many people viewing an object it takes for it to be officially labeled unidentified. A UFO is not synonymous with alien spacecraft; so even if it's definitley not an alien spacecraft this doesn't mean it's identified.
I've seen 2 different things I can't explain on 3 separate occasions, one of them I witnessed with maybe 30-40 other people and nobody had a clue what it was.
I'm a rational human being, I believe in the scientific method, I can't explain what I saw, hence I use the term UFO. This does not mean I believed them to be alien spacecraft.
Some replies by contributors here are just short of saying that had they been in a similar situation, they could easily explain what they saw. It's almost like saying only unintelligent and misinformed people see UFO's, the more learned ones can easily identify every phenomenon. It's not polite and doesn't really give people the freedom to share in open discussion.
I thought amateur astronomers would be more curious, scientific and open to discussion. My view has always been to listen to whatever anybody has to say and not to ridicule them. The opposite of this is bigotry, which is one of the biggest enemies of science.