Others have said this but it's probably worth re-iterating. When the military call something a UFO, they mean it literally. It's an unidentified flying object i

Others have said this but it's probably worth re-iterating. When the military call something a UFO, they mean it literally. It's an unidentified flying object i.e. an object moving through the air that they can't identify. It's a popular culture thing that this term is used to mean "of extraterrestrial origin". So, is it a UFO? Absolutely, pretty much by definition until someone identifies it. Is it of extraterrestrial origin? Almost definitely not. It just doesn't make sense that there are aliens hurtling around and occasionally buzzing rural folk in Alabama, and the occasional fighter pilot, for larks. They might be doing that but it's much more likely that they're not. This is, of course, entirely unrelated to the question of whether or not there is extraterrestrial life (probably) and extraterrestrial civilisation (no idea).