I think right now, the most likely explanation is that people are just seeing things. Few months ago I was watching Perseids [1]. I was in a field with no stre

I think right now, the most likely explanation is that people are just seeing things. Few months ago I was watching Perseids [1]. I was in a field with no street lamps around me, with headphones on, watching the sky for a long time, and suddenly a drone appeared. It seemed to hover maybe 50 meters from me, 20 meters from the ground, moving slowly from the south-west, then circling around me. I wasn't scared, but it was weird. After 5 minutes (!) I realized it wasn't a drone, it was just a plane landing on the airport located 1 km to north-east. The specifics of the plane route (the runway is oriented from west to east; I saw only one light from the plane) plus the lack of noise (because of my headphones) plus the dark (wrong distance estimates) contributed to this mistake. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids