[Caramelgal]

Now as for your plane. That kind of stuff happens a lot. Light hits at a weird angle, people watching don’t realize where they are in relation to local flight paths, people don’t realize how bad your depth perception gets at long distance especially without intermediate object.

Exactly. Knowing that I was driving under a flight path, I knew full well that it was an airplane as I’d seen hundreds coming in for a landing over the very same stretch of highway over the years.

What I found interesting was, even with this knowledge, how light and angle and perception could be deceiving.

For a very brief moment I could understand why some otherwise rational people might think they’ve seen a UFO. On the other hand most rational people understand the rational explanations. Some folks however, because they’ve pre-programmed themselves to “believe” are unwilling to accept any evidence to the contrary and call the rest of us “naysayers”.

[razorboy]

And I do believe in possibilities. I mean the math says there’s pretty much zero chance that we’ve got the only useful rock out there, and compared to the universe we’re pretty young, or heck they could even be angels. But I shave with Occam’s razor every day, and usually “de plane” winds up being the answer with the least assumptions.

[marbren]

What if what you think is real is an illusion?