I don't even know what they're afraid of, these drones aren't carrying an RPG round like in Ukraine. I guess it's not impossible.

Your last sentence negated the first and only furthered my point. Moving lights in low visibility are open to a variety of interpretations.

In fairness, I get what you’re saying, but I think there is some legitimacy to it.

First, I believe that this term has been introduced by the us government, so it’s not the crackpots laundering the conspiracy themselves by using a new term.

Second, I believe the reason UAP was introduced is to describe properly recorded and credibly witnessed and described phenomena (tic-tac, etc) that are not explained by any publically known craft, engineering, or science, but aren’t likely aliens either; and that is well described by UAP which doesn’t directly imply aliens that ufo does.

The problem is you need a term for "flying thing we saw but weren't able to identify and/or categorize" (which is certainly a legitimate need) but every time you start using it this will increasingly change meaning to "aliens and such are zooming around and <some power> doesn't want you to know" (completely regardless if it's factually true or not - nobody is going to want to use an alternative term someone sets aside for "crackpots" in either case) until it gets to the point people don't even associate the term with what it was created for again.