Originally posted by toreishi
planes facing you or moving away from you will often look to be stationary blobs of light-colored/shiny objects, the same way that you can't judge
how fast a car is moving if it's headed in your direction and you're looking at its headlights. i hope you get the idea.
Yes, here's an
example of a UFO that "hovers", so it can't be a plane, right? This is a common mistake, not to mention it doesn't look much like a plane (at
least not for a while after it "pops into existence"):
CAUTION: to all UFO videographers
..when you're out and about with your camcorder looking to film geniune UFO footage, look twice - coz it's easy to make a mistake man!
According to the UFO organization MUFON, nearly all (over 95%) of UFOs are simply manmade objects (like planes) or natural phenomena. That would
include ultralights, and other planes.
Not only do untrained observers make mistakes, but even trained people, like pilots, make mistakes in identifying manmade objects and natural
phenomena as UFOs.
