Comment Comment by treesprite82 > Silvery oval shape, hovering and moving left/right in a straight line before accelerating at an insane rateHow did you judge the distance of a silvery oval in the sky? We're generally pretty bad at estimating distance without sufficient cues (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0042698979... https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-02284-005 https://www.nature.com/articles/35102562). It may have been something smaller and closer than you thought, and so not necessarily making insane movements.> Either this is psychological and people have some kind of built-in hallucination effect for this specific phenomena in the skyIt doesn't have to be "built-in" - suggestibility could play a big role. parent treesprite82 5 years ago
How did you judge the distance of a silvery oval in the sky? We're generally pretty bad at estimating distance without sufficient cues (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0042698979... https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-02284-005 https://www.nature.com/articles/35102562). It may have been something smaller and closer than you thought, and so not necessarily making insane movements.
> Either this is psychological and people have some kind of built-in hallucination effect for this specific phenomena in the sky
It doesn't have to be "built-in" - suggestibility could play a big role.