Thread by @AlexandraErin

All of this thread does a lot to explain why I don't think we're seeing aircraft at all. That's why the reaction is "meh".

https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1394654014596337667

Aircrafts that can defy the laws of physics including the ability to "cloak" or disappear from instrumentation... but that only works some of the time? They're carefully hiding their presence from us but doing stunts in our atmosphere?

I believe there are UFOs... well, maybe O is too specific. But sure, there are sightings of phenomena where we don't understand what we're looking at. But we don't understand much of what we're looking at when we look at the sky. Our brains aren't equipped to parse that stuff.

Okay, teenage rebels doing doughnuts on our lawn is a possibility.

https://twitter.com/talkwordy/status/1395131563722084355

But as I was saying: our brains aren't equipped to parse what we see when we look up.

For instance, how big is the moon? I don't mean the diameter of our satellite, I mean the apparent size of the visible disk-like shape in the sky. We are *terrible* at judging that.

If you're seeing a craft in the sky at night... well, mostly what you're seeing are the lights. It's hard to judge the size of something in the sky to begin with. It's impossible to judge the size of something by the light given off by lights attached to it.

So if you're watching something move through a three dimensional space, from a large distance, and you have no ability to parse its apparent size, you *can't tell* what angles it's turning at because you're effectively seeing it in two dimensions.

You can only clearly see the portions of the three-dimensional curve its turning radius makes through space that are vertical or horizonal with respet to your field of vision, not any part of the curve that is carrying it closer to or farther from you.

So people tell me about seeing glowing balls in the sky moving at impossible angles... I can believe they're accurately describing what they saw, but I wonder if they're describing a more gentle or natural arc, being flattened from their perspective into a two dimensional plane.

So some of it might be aircraft, in particular things like light-up quadcopter style drones that are already moving in and behaving in different ways than conventional craft are expected to.

Like, if your brain is parsing the light of a small drone relatively close to you in the sky as being a larger craft farther away? You'll think it's going much faster than it is.

And then some of it's not crafts at all, not physical objects in that sense, but just... optical phenomena. Atmospheric phenomena.

I know "swamp gas" is a bit of a meme in UFOlogy, but... there's a lot of weird stuff that happens, and a lot of it looks weird.

And, I mean. The alternative is that somebody really does have technology "1,000 years ahead of us" and they're operating here on earth.

Say that's true.

What are we supposed to do about that?

So... meh.