I find it far more likely that the different interpretations of UFO lead to divergent and self-reenforcing stories. What I mean by that is that UFO means uniden

I find it far more likely that the different interpretations of UFO lead to divergent and self-reenforcing stories. What I mean by that is that UFO means unidentified flying object, which all flying objects, or even just those for which there is only a single report are classified as exactly that unidentified … opposed to identified … flying … objects. On the flip side, the public that has both a less formal and generally lower understanding of this and other things, also led on by various forms of popular culture, have a wholly fantastical minds image when they hear "UFO".