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>It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate.

Which is what "UFO" means to 99% of people.

[DoreenMichele]

I hate seeing it used that way on HN though because it actively undermines meaty discussion of objective data and promotes the treatment of articles about objective data as click-bait, like it's the "hot sheets" of Men in Black -- like HN is a place to take seriously the wildest conspiracy theories with no real basis.

[themoonisachees]

But it's not what it means to the united states government when it announced it had seen UFOs, which is the point of discussion