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Originally Posted by NGCHunter
They had a group sighting as a family back in the early 60's (silent silver disc with windows and an interior on a very low flying path) so either they had a group hallucination (despite not being drug users), they're very good liars, or they saw something out of the ordinary.
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The question should perhaps be 'something out of the ordinary- but what?'
It appears that many things which are
somewhat out of the ordinary can be misperceived by observers to be
very out of the ordinary.
See this link:
Eye witnesses
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Dr. William Hartman evaluated one "mass sighting" of a UFO that was determined to be the re-entry of a Russian booster stage for the satellite Zond IV. Several of the reports given by witnesses sounded incredible...(example follows)
...It was shaped like a fat cigar, in my estimation. I was impressed that it seemed of considerable size, the size of one of our largest airplane fuselages, or larger...It appeared to have square-shaped windows...I thought I caught a glimpse of a metallic look about the fuselage...It appeared to me that the fuselage was constructed of many pieces of flat sheets of metal-like material with a "riveted together look."...The many "windows" seemed to be lit up from the inside of the fuselage with light that was quite bright...
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The two effects Hartmann describes- the 'excitedness effect' and the 'airship effect' together seem to be able to convince quite sensible people that they are seeing something more extraordinary than they really are.