[T.B. Yoits]

The F-16 is named the "Fighting Falcon" but from the beginning, pilots and crews used the name "Viper" instead, referring to the Viper starfighter from the television program "Battlestar Galactica" which aired at the time.

The US Air Combat Command F-16 demonstration team which currently flies the F-16CM has been known as the F-16 Viper Demonstration Team.
https://www.acc.af.mil/Home/Aerial-Events/F16-Viper/

The current F-16V is also referred to as the Viper. (Adding to the confusion, as though it's the "F-16 Viper Viper")
https://www.militaryupdate.net/2025/04/f-16v-viper-most-advanced-4th-gen-fighter.html

The UFO may have been a Colonial starfighter Viper colliding with a U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper that was an F-16V Viper variant with a pilot who had once flown in the Air Combat Combat Command F-16 Viper Demonstration Team.

[PIF]

The UAP the struck the left sided of the cockpit was later determined to be a drone.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Nah, it was a Cylon Raider.