To capture a picture such as a moving object at night take very specialized equipment and I agree your phone would have caught another blur at best. At least you know what you seen and I am sure it has changed your own thoughts in life greatly.
Yes a UFO once identified is no longer a phenomena but a known. It is also no longer a UFO at that time it is KFO. A known flying object and might even have a nice name like a plane.
One of the two I saw can not be called a plane. I do not know what to call it. I was topping a mountain pass and it came up the other side at the same time. It had sound and I was able to see it. It was a clear day and if I had not hit the brakes and swerved I would have driven off the side of a mountain. I had no real thoughts of what it was as it kept rising and then disappearing into the sky. Nothing I have seen thus far in in my life to that day can explain what I saw. I do not it was not a paranormal experiance and it was a solid object. My thought on this is they are two very different things.