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Originally Posted by astrophotographer
Not that absurd at all. I can list a lot of examples of people describing point sources (i.e. stars) as large objects that shoot out beams. Reading Allan Hendry's book, you would be amazed out how people distort their observations to the point it is hard to determine the true source of the observation. They aren't lying. They are just mistaken about details in the reports they submit.
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I can also cite at least two examples of people who
really know the sky who mistook, at least initially, very ordinary objects for something unusual. Neither of them went all the way to alien spacecraft in their initial thoughts, but they both thought, "That can't be an alien spacecraft!" And, indeed, it wasn't in either case. In one, it was ducks. In the other, it was the Moon against clouds.