If a bird flies by and you can't identify the species, then, yes, it can be called a UFO...
It was probably an ivory billed woodpecker. If I ever saw one, I would not believe my eyes/report it because it would spread economic death wherever it landed.
You were saying to TaraP — “If a bird flies by and you can’t identify the species, then, yes, it can be called a UFO... “
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One reason why I don’t like to use the word UFO, if I see something I didn’t recognize is because UFO — does not — mean that any more. LOL...
It basically means, in the minds of the public, that it’s craft that no one has conclusively identified, which is piloted by an alien from an advanced civilization out in space somewhere (for the most part).
So, I prefer to say that I saw something that I didn’t recognize. If someone asks me if I saw a UFO, I’ll say no — but rather — I just didn’t recognize what it was, even if it was moving through the sky.
However, I haven’t seen any objects that have concerned me enough, in terms of them not being identified when I saw them. I see too many things that I can’t identify and I just take that as “life” — it’s just the way it goes.
I see a flash of light, it could be a flash in a camera going off, lightning in the sky, or a car headlight swinging by me when I wasn’t looking, someone with a big hand-held spotlight and a bunch of other stuff. It’s not alien lights, for sure... LOL...
I see too much of that and, still, I don’t ever recall seeing a UFO in the popular sense.
I hear noises in the sky at times. It could be a number of things. One time I heard big booms over the hills (quite a large and repetitive noise, over several minutes). Fortunately for my “understanding” of what was going on, I happened to know that I was about 30 or so miles away from a U.S. Army Ammunition Depot... :-) If I hadn’t known that and I was more suspicious of things, I might think it was something related to “UFOs” (doncha know...).
I hear noises in the house, and creaks and groans. I basically ignore them. Houses are noisy. I see shadows sometimes, moving just out of my eyesight. But, at other times, I catch them in “just enough time” to identify them as a common object moving (perhaps a bird flew by the window and the sun was shining in and it made a quick moving shadow in the living room..., stuff like that happens all the time).
If I were worried about every single thing I couldn’t identify all during the day (and there are *lots* of them happening, all the time) I would go crazy, and think “the world is coming to an end”.
Now, the world may be coming to an end, but it’s not the creaks and groans of my house, or the flashing lights I see, or the booms I hear or the shadows that flit by, out of the corner of my eye — that are going to cause it... LOL...
Nope, the world (or this current “age”) is coming to an end, when Jesus Christ returns to this earth and sets up His Kingdom and rules over all the nations of the world (and that won’t have anything to do with the lights I see and the shadows flitting by, and the booms that I hear...).