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Technically UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, so anything that's airborne and you don't know what it is right now is one. So in that sense they're real.
I don't think any of them are actually any kind of craft built by non-human creatures. I think they're all either normal animals doing normal things, or human-built aircraft, possibly weird and experimental ones and/or viewed in strange circumstances. At least, the ones that aren't hallucinated or completely made up for whatever reason.
Here is a video I found with a detailed explanation confirming what I had figured to be the case for the recent Navy videos - it's raw video being shot in infrared through a sophisticated aircraft tracking camera system. Once you fully take into account the characteristics of infrared cameras (lens flare from very hot things like jet exhaust which is invisible in visual spectrum) and how the tracking system automatically maneuvers the camera to track a moving aircraft while mounted on an aircraft itself, and unwind those things, the targeted object acts an awful lot like a perfectly normal aircraft doing perfectly normal things.
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