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.

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

I thought so too. I googled it and came up with the above quote but didn't provide the link.

Happy to be corrected if someone has a good source they can cite.

It is a better term overall and also lacks the baggage of being used colloquially to mean "aliens."