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They're often stars or planets. Unless you have knowledge and training to identify celestial bodies it's easy to mistake them for something much closer. Distanc
by driverdan 8y ago
They're often stars or planets. Unless you have knowledge and training to identify celestial bodies it's easy to mistake them for something much closer. Distance is very hard to judge against a solid background like the sky.
- readhn 8y agoB.S.! Flying an aircraft requires a lot more skills from a human than typing code on a PC in your pajamas and talking about space. if you are a pilot who is flying for 10-20-30 years. You can tell. Now, this is not 1 pilot - 1 event we are talking. Many cases. Im not claiming its proving existence of ET or anything like that. Just that perhaps there is something there.
- sjburt 8y agoSR-71 pilots complained about having trouble telling stars from fishing boats to the point where an additional artificial horizon was added for night flying. There were reports of pilots rolling the plane up to 45 degrees without realizing it.
- readhn 8y agoapples and oranges. totally different conditions.
- newnewpdro 8y agoThe altitude the SR-71 cruises at is nowhere near where these sightings are occurring, it's practically in space.
- warent 8y agoThis is a good point, but I've never heard of a tic-tac shaped star or planet.