I think you have nailed it. Our government thinks we are fools and are using language--"Object"--to fool us into believing the "Object" might be an UF
O manned with alien beings. Until they tell us, they will treat us like they did the local residents who saw the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania "Object" fall from the sky and see what they found in the woods.
This is a witness depiction of what he and others saw before the U.S. Army and State Police officials cleared them out: